Germany said on Wednesday it had returned to
its rightful owners the last artwork confirmed as looted by the Nazis
uncovered in the collection of a reclusive Munich pensioner.
The German government Wednesday handed three works of art stolen during the Nazi occupation of France back to descendants of their original owner, collector and Jewish lawyer Armand Dorville.
Germany on Wednesday returned a painting looted by the Nazis which ended up in the spectacular art hoard of Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a Third Reich-era art dealer, to the family of a French real estate broker.
A German court Thursday threw out a challenge to the will of collector Cornelius Gurlitt, clearing the way for a spectacular Nazi-era art hoard found in his home to go to a Swiss museum.
A German task force investigating the provenance of a spectacular Nazi-era art hoard of hundreds of works said Thursday that only five had been proved to be looted thus far, and defended its slow progress.
Investigators poring over the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt, son of Hitler's art dealer, have managed to identify just five works that were definitely stolen by the Nazis and can be returned to their rightful owners.
A group of US Congressmen have sent a letter to Bavarian Minister President Horst Seehofer, urging him to do more to help return art stolen by the Nazis to its rightful owners.
Police searched a villa in a wealthy suburb of Kiel on Wednesday and found a Second World War tank, a torpedo and other weaponry in the cellar. On Thursday they were still working on removing the tank.
A Nazi-looted painting that was hidden for decades is being auctioned by Sotheby's Wednesday in a rare sale as
investigators work painstakingly to identify the origins of hundreds of other works from the same haul.
A painting by Max Liebermann from a Nazi-era art trove found in Germany last year will go on sale in London next month, the first from the collection to be sold off, Sotheby's said on Friday.
A painting by French artist Henri Matisse has been returned to the heirs of the people it was stolen from by the Nazis, after it spent decades in an art dealer's private hoard.
The Bavarian government rejected on Thursday an attempt by Hermann Göring's daughter to win back her father's assets, which the government seized in 1948.
The reclusive son of a Nazi-era art dealer who amassed a giant secret collection snuck a Monet with him into the German hospital where he died in May, investigators said Friday.
A Swiss museum that unexpectedly inherited a disputed hoard of priceless paintings, some likely plundered from Jews during World War II, plans to send a team to Germany to inspect the treasure.
UPDATE: A collection of paintings seized from the reclusive son of a Nazi art dealer are to be given back to him. The decision comes two days after Cornelius Gurlitt agreed to return any works found to have been looted by the Nazis.
Lawyers acting for mysterious art collector Cornelius Gurlitt have launched a website making the case for the recluse's right to keep his collection. Meanwhile negotiations continue over works suspected to be Nazi "loot."
Germany will double funding for efforts to return Nazi-looted art to their rightful owners and may invite Jewish representatives to join a mediation body, the government said on Wednesday.
Bavaria said on Tuesday it was drafting a new law to ease the return of Nazi-looted art to its rightful owners in the wake of a huge find in a Munich flat in 2012.
Police broke into the flat of Cornelius Gurlitt on Thursday, the son of a Nazi art dealer who hoarded hundreds of works believed to have been looted by the Third Reich. Officers became concerned that no-one had heard from him.
German authorities on Thursday published more than 100 additional works from the likes of Picasso, Cezanne and Degas believed to have been looted by the Nazis.
Germany has put 54 more paintings and drawings of priceless artworks stolen by the Nazis online including works by Edvard Munch, Max Liebermann and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, public prosecutors announced on Thursday.
Germany’s plan to hand hundreds of confiscated paintings back to the son of a Nazi art dealer has raised the wrath of Jewish organizations. The World Jewish Congress, meanwhile, has stated the country's reputation is on the line.
Authorities said on Tuesday that they would order the return of several paintings to recluse Cornelius Gurlitt who is accused of hoarding hundreds of priceless artworks stolen by the Nazis.
