Tag: Nazi loot

The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) refutes claims by the New York City District Attorney’s Office regarding the 1916 Egon Schiele painting, “Russian War Prisoner.” The museum maintains that the

A panel of judges from the US Fifth Circuit court of appeals upheld a lower court’s decision to dismiss a claim by heirs of Max J. Emden for the return

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam has announced that it will be returning Henri Matisse’s painting, “Odalisque” (1920-21), to the heirs of a Jewish textiles manufacturer who sold it under duress

An oil portrait by Jacques Jordaens depicting a young woman is set to be auctioned in London today. The painting, titled “Head Study of a Young Woman,” carries an estimated

Mondex Corporation, a Toronto-based firm specializing in the restitution of art looted during the Holocaust, has settled a lawsuit with a former client regarding the fees for the restitution of

The Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators against European Jewry during World War II was one of the most extensive genocides in history, resulting in the extermination of