Max Beckmann’s “The Lion Tamer” sold from the illicit collection for €864,000 at an auction house in Cologne in 2011. (image via artfact.com) First reported in the German media, news broke yesterday ...
Max Beckmann's biblical and political triptych Departure (right) hangs on the same wall as Adolf Ziegler's Four Elements triptych, which Hitler owned. One of the most unsettling rooms in an important ...
A real estate listing in Argentina shook the art world last month when it revealed a painting hanging in pride of place in the living room was actually an Italian Old Master stolen by the Nazis. Art ...
In July 1937, artist Marc Chagall discovered that his paintings were enjoying a star turn in a singularly unexpected venue — an exhibition organized by the Nazi Party in Munich, the birthplace of its ...
After the recent Louvre heist, a reminder that the world’s missing art is rarely gone for good – just waiting to resurface, often in the most unexpected of places. When Dutch journalist Peter Schouten ...
Nina McGehee, of Denver, has spent the last decade unraveling a family mystery that dates back to Nazi Germany. McGehee’s relatives escaped Hitler’s rule in 1938 and resettled in the United States ...
Researchers for the World Jewish Restitution Organization said families whose art was stolen or disappeared in the Holocaust now face a harder time tracking works on the internet. By Catherine Hickley ...