VIENNA (AP).- A painting by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele has been rehung at a Vienna museum after a 12-year possession battle over the artwork stolen by the Nazis. The painting was returned over the weekend after the Leopold Museum agreed to pa…
Painting by Egon Schiele Stolen by Nazis Back in Austrian Museum
VIENNA (AP).- A painting by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele has been rehung at a Vienna museum after a 12-year possession battle over the artwork stolen by the Nazis. The painting was returned over the weekend after the Leopold Museum agreed to pa…
Painting Stolen by Nazis Back in Austrian Museum
VIENNA (AP).- A painting by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele has been rehung at a Vienna museum after a 12-year possession battle over the artwork stolen by the Nazis. The painting was returned over the weekend after the Leopold Museum agreed to pa…
New Contemporary Works in Collection on View at Reynolda House
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- Three new works are on view at Reynolda House Museum of American Art. Anni Albers’s “Red Meander” (1969) and Lee Krasner’s “Free Space I” and “Free Space II” (1975) can be seen in the historic house alongside a work already in the m…
New Contemporary Works in Collection on View at Reynolda House Museum of American Art
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- Three new works are on view at Reynolda House Museum of American Art. Anni Albers’s “Red Meander” (1969) and Lee Krasner’s “Free Space I” and “Free Space II” (1975) can be seen in the historic house alongside a work already in the m…
Leopold Museum Pays a $19 Million Settlement for Egon Schiele’s "Portrait of Wally"
NEW YORK (AP).- A 12-year dispute that illustrated the difficulty of proving art was stolen by Nazis in World War II ended Tuesday with an agreement that a 1912 oil painting entitled “Portrait of Wally” will be returned to a Vienna museum and displayed…
Austrian Panel Recommends Restitution of Four Works of Art
VIENNA (AP).- A commission has recommended that four paintings
contained in a vast Vienna art collection should be returned because
they were
either seized by the Nazis or given up against the will of their former
Jewish
owners, Austria’s Cu…
Austrian Panel Recommends Restitution of Four Works of Art
VIENNA (AP).- A commission has recommended that four paintings contained in a vast Vienna art collection should be returned because they were either seized by the Nazis or given up against the will of their former Jewish owners, Austria’s Culture Minis…
German Artist Gunter Demnig Revives Names of Holocaust Victims
BERLIN (AP).- Artist Gunter Demnig carefully pried a cobblestone out of the sidewalk on Friedrichstrasse in downtown Berlin and replaced it with a shiny square brass plaque. “Davisco Asriel lived here,” the inscription read. “Born in 1882. Deported 25….
Rudolf Leopold, Austrian Art Collector, Dies Today at 85
VIENNA (AP).- Rudolf Leopold, who assembled Austria’s largest private art collection, including works allegedly stolen by the Nazis, died Tuesday at the age of 85. Leopold died at a hospital in the Austrian capital after suffering multiple organ failur…