LONDON (REUTERS).- Sotheby’s auctioneer sold a rare cityscape by Austrian artist Egon Schiele for a record 24.7 million pounds ($40.1 million) at a London auction on Wednesday. The auction house had expected to fetch between 22 and 30 million pounds fo…
Recently Rediscovered Books Plundered by the Nazis Returned to Jewish Community
BERLIN (AP).- Recently rediscovered books plundered by the Nazis more than six decades ago were returned to Berlin’s Jewish community on Wednesday in a ceremony at the city’s landmark synagogue. The Berlin Central and Regional Library formally handed o…
Recently Rediscovered Books Plundered by the Nazis Returned to Jewish Community
BERLIN (AP).- Recently rediscovered books plundered by the Nazis more than six decades ago were returned to Berlin’s Jewish community on Wednesday in a ceremony at the city’s landmark synagogue. The Berlin Central and Regional Library formally handed o…
Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie Displays Eighteen Works Returned in the Past Ten Years
BERLIN (AP).- A painting of the Florence skyline that hung in Adolf Hitler’s Berlin apartment throughout World War II and was missing for decades went on show Thursday in an exhibition of works returned to the collection of a major German museum. The e…
Woman Pleads Guilty in Destruction of Artwork
LOVELAND (AP).- A Montana woman accused of entering a Colorado museum and destroying a piece of art, which she thought was obscene, pleaded guilty Friday to misdemeanor criminal mischief. Kathleen Folden, 56, a truck driver from Kalispell, Mont., origi…
New Online Resource Debuts for Nazi-Era Looted Art
NEW YORK (AP).- The Nazis stripped hundreds of thousands of artworks from Jews during World War II in one of the biggest cultural raids in history, often photographing their spoils and meticulously cataloguing them on typewritten index cards. Holocaust…
Israel Museum Restitutes Drawing by Paul Klee to Estate of Pre-World War II Owner
NEW YORK, NY.- The Israel Museum announced today the restitution of the Paul Klee drawing Veil Dance, 1920, to the estate of German art collector Harry Fuld Jr. Fuld owned the work from 1932 until 1941, when it was confiscated in war-time Germany. The …
Israel Museum Restitutes Drawing by Paul Klee to Estate of Pre-World War II Owner
NEW YORK, NY.- The Israel Museum announced today the restitution of the Paul Klee drawing Veil Dance, 1920, to the estate of German art collector Harry Fuld Jr. Fuld owned the work from 1932 until 1941, when it was confiscated in war-time Germany. The …
The Art Loss Register Welcomes MaryKate Cleary and Julia Rickmeyer
LONDON.- The Art Loss Register announced the appointment of MaryKate Cleary (pictured right) as Manager of Historic Claims and Research and Julia Rickmeyer (pictured left) as European Clients Manager. MaryKate joins the London office to continue the ex…
Museum Wiesbaden Restitutes Painting by Dutch Baroque Painter Pieter de Grebber
WIESBADEN.- On Tuesday, the 10th August 2010, the Museum Wiesbaden restituted the painting attributed to Dutch Baroque painter Pieter de Grebber (1600-1653) titled “Double Portrait of a young couple” to the heirs of Jacob and Rosa Oppenheimer. The Mus…