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WW.II AND
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June 18, 2003
- Looted Dutch art sold
May 26, 2003
- Difficulties arise when art has been pilfered by Nazis
May 25, 2003
- World War II Allied Intelligence report on German art dealer on the web
May 25, 2003
- Nazis, stolen treasure & mystery deaths
May 19, 2003
- On the trail of tainted art; A historian is in increasing demand to establish the ownership of valuable works stolen during the Holocaust.
May 18, 2003
- AUSTRIA FIGHTS RULING THAT IT CAN BE SUED FOR NAZI-LOOTED ART
April 18, 2003
- Nazi-Stolen Art Returned to Owner's Heirs
April 11 - 12, 2003
- Up to £7m likely for Schiele masterpiece looted by Nazis
April 2, 2003
- Disputed German Art Opens in Moscow
March 29, 2003
- After four decades of struggle, heirs of Czech collector win back some art
- Hunt on for Tsars' Amber Room
March 3, 2003
- Panel on Nazi Art Theft Fell Short
February 27 - March 2, 2003
- New Efforts to Recover Nazi Plunder
February 18, 2003
- Art looted by Nazis to go on sale
February 15, 2003
- Treasure hunter
(Lili Gutmann had not seen her family's works of art since 1938 when the Nazis stripped their house bare)
- The Absence of Justice
(A Pair of Flawed but Valuable Books Describe the Imperfect State of Holocaust Restitution)
February 14, 2003
- Thyssen museum says it is legal owner of alleged Nazi-looted masterpiece
February 11, 2003
- Probe into stolen precious sculptures urged...
February 10, 2003
- American Says Painting in Spain Is Holocaust Loot
January 31 - February 8, 2003
- Missing Masterpieces; Thick or Flynn? (Peter Watson, reply Tom Flynn, plus moderator's comment)
January 30, 2003
- Too hot to handle? A new book about missing masterpieces totally ignores Second World War losses (Tom Flynn)
January 21, 2003
- Whose Picasso is it? Looted by Nazis, a 1922 masterwork ignites a dispute between a Chicago arts patron and a Holocaust survivor's heir
January 8 - 12, 2003
- Fight for Picasso piece could move to Chicago
December 22 - 26, 2002
- L.A. Man Sues for Picasso Stolen by Nazis
- Australia: Art treasures may be Nazi loot
December 17, 18, 2002
- Austrian City to Return Looted Art
December 12 - 15, 2002
- Buried treasures (The blitz transformed Britain's bumbling approach to war - and left its great art ready to withstand nuclear attack)
December 14, 2002
- Klimt Art Suit May Proceed, Court Says (Plaintiff against Austria hopes to recover paintings seized by the Nazis in 1939)
December 5 - 9, 2002
- Holocaust Survivor Wants Paintings Returned
December 4, 2002
- Settlement on Painting Captured in Holocaust
November 29 - December 2, 2002
- Art given to family of Auschwitz victim
November 15, 2002
- Vienna police confiscate valuable Schiele painting looted by Nazis
November 12, 2002
- RE:Art Sales War-Looted Art (Connie Lowenthal)
November 4, 2002
- Art sales: war-looted art
November 2, 2002
- Goudstikker Painting Restituted--Press Release sent on behalf of Lawrence M. Kaye, Esq
October 17, 2002
- re: hunting Nazi art online (Connie Lowenthal)
October 16, 2002
- Hunting Nazi art online. Coming to an Internet portal near you: Art treasures seized by Hitler's minions in World War II.
October 2, 2002
- Nazi loot claim 'compelling'; British museum may have to return the drawings
September 19, 2002
- Letter to the Paris Biennale des Antiquaires warn of World War II Loot
September 19, 2002
- London talk about wartime looted art treasures and Italy
July 23, 2002
- WW.II. Looted Treasures in England's Regional Museums
July 14, 2002
- U.S. joins fight over looted art
July 2, 2002
- Major U.S. Museums and Auction Houses have just received one of the largest Holocaust-related art claims in Decorative Arts.
June 25, 2002
- Russia's Hermitage museum returns stained-glass panels looted during WWII to Germany
June 24, 2002
- Germany Returns Russian Paintings Stolen in WWII
June 1, 2002
- A curator of lost art and recovered memories
- 'Looted pictures' claim against British Museum
May 23, 2002
- A significant Holocaust-related art claim has been filed in Paris against a major French museum
May 5, 2002
- Art sleuths claim back Hitler's loot
April 28, 2002
- Judge Revives Case of Nazi-Looted Art
April 19, 2002
- Dutch Promise Return of Nazi-Looted Art
April 16, 2002
- Austria in talks over 'looted' art
April 13, 2002
- Case Proceeds Against Austria Museum on Picture
April 11, 2002
- Germany says it will look for Russian art treasures here amid progress on looted art
April 4, 2002
- HISTORIC CLAIM IS FILED AGAINST SWISS FOUNDATION TO RECOVER VALUABLE NAZI- LOOTED ART;
EXPECTED TO RESULT IN FAR-REACHING DECISION AFFECTING SWISS ART HOLDINGS
March 29, 2002
- On errors in the article "Czechs to keep art taken by Nazis" (Pavel Jirasek)
March 28, 2002
- Jewish Museum to file a suit against the ministry of culture
March 22, 2002
- Czechs to keep art taken by Nazis
(Lyons heir denied pieces declared national treasures)
March 19, 2002
- Wartime Loot Gets a Too-Hasty Boot
January 24, 2002
- Inquiry resolves questions over art looted during Nazi occupation
January 23, 2002
- Russia to return medieval stained-glass windows to Germany
January 12, 2002
- JEWISH MUSEUM IN HOLOCAUST-‘ART' FLAP
January 8, 2002
- Galleries urged to return Dürers looted by Nazis
January 4, 2002
- query: new German law enacted Nov. 2001 re: statute of limitations
January 14, 2002
- Answer to query about new German law enacted Nov. 2001 re: statute of limitations
January 3, 2002
- TOP MUSEUMS FACE CLAIMS FOR DÜRERS
December 31, 2001
- Holocaust-era art collection beckons heir. One restitution could open door to other cases
November 23, 2001
- Before The Nazis Came.
There's no museum for French art in New York--between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the subject is thoroughly covered.
November 13, 2001, part II
- Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933- 1945
October 10, 2001
- Nazis 'Forced Sale' of Art
September 29, 2001
- Nazi Loot To Be Returned to Poland
July 21, 2001
- High art survives odyssey of high adventure
July 13, 2001
- JEN LISSITZKY COMMENCES ACTION AGAINST BEYELER FOUNDATION
TO RECOVER KANDINSKY PAINTING LOOTED BY THE NAZIS
July 7, 2001
- Dealer guilty of handling Nazi art
June 25, 2001
- Website Origins Unknown: http://www.originsunknown.org
June 3, 2001
- Two useful publications on WW.II provenance research
May 31, 2001
- Glasgow uses net to sift Nazi looted art
- Cantor's horrific story behind lost art
May 25, 2001
- HEIR TO VAST ART COLLECTION RECOVERS OLD WORLD PAINTING LOOTED BY NAZIS
First Painting From Famed Goudstikker Collection Returned to Family
May 23, 2001
- Boijmans Foundation Reconsiders Returning Holocaust Art
May 22, 2001
- Russia: Germany Sees Slow Progress In Regaining Art Treasures
May 17, 2001
- Dealer on trial over looted art
May 7, 2001
- Striving to Break the Deadlock On Looted Art
May 5, 2001
- Allies stole art as Nazism fell
May 3, 2001
- Art gallery confirms Nazi loot in collection
April 24, 2001
- German Museums To Find Nazi-Stolen Art
April 20, 2001
- The Pierpont Morgan Library Makes Amends (Issues of provenance, ownership and
restitution resulting from World War II looting continue to face museums in the United
States and abroad. Now the Pierpont Morgan Library has its first such case)
April 14, 2001
- Montreal Museum uses Net to trace artworks
April 1, 2001
- Art Loss Register Tracks Looted WWII Pieces
March 22, 2001
- Russia to list looted war treasure for claimants
March 21, 2001
- Fighting for Her Past
( The niece of one of artist Gustav Klimt's friends and subjects is seeking a famous portrait and other works.
Austria says the art, seized by the Nazis, belongs there)
March 17, 2001
- Law suit against Museum Security Website
(Former local sues over Web site claim she inherited art stolen during Holocaust)
March 13, 2001
- Nazis, liens, looting ... plenty of hang-ups in paintings
February 26, 2001
- Gallery haunted by spectre of Nazi looted artworks
February 12, 2001
- 1948 LETTER BACKS CLAIM OF NAZI THEFT
February 5, 2001
- JAPANESE MUSEUM RETURNS NAZI LOOT TO RIGHTFUL OWNER
February 2, 2001
- Christies art experts miss possible Holocaust loot
- Treasure seekers at both ends of a tunnel hunt the fabled Amber Room
January29, 2001
- Tracing histories
(Chicago worldwide center of the controversies surrounding missing art as well as the legal and ethical issues over ownership)
- Complex issues arise when art moves in times of crisis
- Berlin returns stolen treasures to Russia
January 24, 2001
- Yale Researching Provenance of Courbet Painting
- Yahoo faces new action over Nazi sales
January 23, 2001
- Art from collector with a Nazi past puts Yale on spot
january 19, 2001
- Payout for painting sold to escape Nazis
- U.S. MISHANDLED NAZI LOOT OF HOLOCAUST, PANEL SAYS
January 18, 2001
- Disclosure of Nazi-era art planned (Museums will catalogue holdings for posting on the Net)
January 17, 2001
- Faking keepsakes from a tragic time (Holocaust artifacts compete with counterfeits)
- Nazi items are withdrawn from DuMouchelles' auction
January 14, 2001
- Czech ministry sets up Internet site for lost art
January 13, 2001
- Hussars rode to the rescue of lost masterpiece
January 12, 2001
- Montreal museum joins Nazi art hunt
January 9, 2001
- Nazi looting saved art from bombings, gallery director says:
Plunder of native works is of greater concern (plus two reactions Museum-L subscribers)
- Russia may return £45bn Nazi booty
January 3, 2001
- Museum Provenance List
- Czech Database of Works of Art from the Property of Victims of the Holocaust
January 2, 2001
- Gallery treasure has mystery past. (Centrepiece of 2001 exhibit has gaps in ownership
during Nazi years. Klimt work included in list posted on Web)
December 30, 2000
- Canadian Galleries release list of suspected Nazi art
- National Gallery disputes Ukraine's claim to drawing;
Museum says artwork stolen by Nazis was acquired in good faith
December 29, 2000
- Holocaust Museum Online
- Jewish museum attacked in Bucharest
- US may renew bid to seize Schiele painting
December 26, 2000
- Who knew what about Nazi loot?
A public inquiry into art plunder might be in order Bonnie Czegledi. A canadian lawyer's view.
december 22, 2000
- U.S. lists 2,000 artworks looted by Nazis
- Germany's hundred-million dollar art collection (Heinz Berggruen collection)
December 17, 2000
- Key to art Nazis stole may be locked away
(Commission's plan to publish postwar loss claims in peril)
- French court holds Nazi-looted art as evidence
- Soviet mole routed art to National Gallery
(Curators to study whether paintings were wartime loot)
December 15, 2000
- An end to plunder
- Treasure hunters race to find Nazi loot of priceless amber
December 13, 2000
- Nazi Looted Art in Canada
(editorial article in today's Toronto "Globe and Mail" by Matthew Teitelbaum)
- Ottawa woman sues to reclaim Nazi loot
December 12, 2000
- Mona Lisa 'was saved from Nazis by British agent'
December 9, 2000
- Court rules Strasbourg Museum must return Klimt to U.S. resident
- Loot Online: Czech Government to Display Nazi Booty on Internet
- World Jewish Congress Asks France To Speed Return of Works Taken by Nazis
December 8, 2000
- Gallery fears some of its art is Nazi plunder (Suspect works posted on Web)
December 7, 2000
- Search for stolen painting gets boost (Museums acknowledge they may have art looted by the Nazis)
December 6, 2000
- U.S. returns stolen masterpiece to Germany
December 5, 2000
- artworks recuperated from Germany to the Netherlands
December 3, 2000
- Response to "No Looted Art in Hitler's Museum at Linz"
November 30, 2000
- Museums Accept Stronger Role in Search for Looted Art
November 30, 2000
- Klimt paintings to return to owner
November 26, 2000
- U.S. National Gallery of Art Gives Up Nazi-Confiscated Painting
(STATEMENT BY TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY STUART E. EIZENSTAT)
November 24, 2000, part II
- Agency says museum took too long to ID Nazi loot
November 24, 2000, part II
- Bremen Basks In Return of Art Looted by Soviet Army
November 24, 2000
- Russia "Owes Nothing" to Germany Regarding Art Trophies
November 22, 2000
- No Looted Art in Hitler's Museum in Linz
November 21, 2000
- Art Taken By Nazis To Be Returned
(The National Gallery of Art is returning a painting believed to have been stolen by German Nazis sometime before 1941 from a Paris family's collection)
november 20, 2000
- HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR'S KIN SEEK PAY FOR LOOTED ART
November 13, 2000
- The Amber Room on the Web Now
- Christie's and Sotheby's to help with provenance research projects
November 10, 2000
- Austria Moves on Stolen Jewish Property
October 30, 2000
- The Art Newspaper, Focus on Looted Art
October 30, 2000
- Glasgow collection hit by Nazi link
October 27, 2000
- Heiress pleased by court ruling on Nazi-looted art
- Up to 600 works of art in galleries linked to Nazis
October 24, 2000
- Nazi-looted Cezanne seized by French court in ownership dispute
October 20, 2000
- Boston museum in pact to keep refugees' painting
October 17, 2000
- Art Museum settles suit over a stolen Matisse

- Vilnius conference urges speedier restitution of Nazi-looted cultural property
October 16, 2000
- Search for Nazi ghosts in gallery
October 16, 2000
- International Symposium CLAIMS FOR THE RESTITUTION OF LOOTED ART
September 23, 2000
- special: "Lost Art" WW.II loot in Hungary
September 13, 2000
- U.S. museum buys artwork it concedes was stolen by Nazis (Jewish collector's heirs sell prized painting in first such deal involving)
September 3, 2000
- Tax Sum Settled for Stolen Art (the Quedlinburg case)
August 29, 2000
- Woman Seeks Return of Art Seized by Nazis
A Lessons Learned or Case Study of Museum Survival During Wartime
Derived from the book “The State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, the Soviet Union, During World War II (The Great Patriotic War)”
August 11, 2000
- Armenia returns booty
July 28, 2000
- Silberberg claiming a looted Van Gogh Bert Eifer)
July 25, 2000
- Press release:
MADONNA AND CHILD PAINTING TO RETURN TO NORTH CAROLINA
July 21, 2000
- World Jewish Congress to claim artwork looted from Jews
July 20, 2000
- Austrian museum can keep stolen art
July 14, 2000
- Web Site Can't Find Art Owners
July 6, 2000
- Provenance research website (John Walsh, J.Paul Getty Museum)
- SFMOMA Suit Meets Setback; Museum, Russell heirs at odds over Picasso
July 5, 2000
- SPOLIATION ADVISORY PANEL ON ART LOOTED IN THE NAZI ERA ANNOUNCE FINAL TERMS OF REFERENCE AND RULES OF PROCEDURE
June 26, 2000
- Museums hunt for stolen art in collections
June 25, 2000
- Czechs To Return Jewish Property
May 31, 2000
- Czechs May Return Jewish Property
- Museums Reach Deal Over Stolen Art
May 27, 2000
- Russia's Putin approves WW2 art booty law (controversial law barring the return to Germany of art treasures seized by the Red Army)
- Dutch Nazi agencies "fabulous" thieves-U.S. report
May 24, 2000
- German town saw Nazi art dealer as local hero--WJC
May 21, 2000
- National Gallery (Washinhgton) Vulnerable to Provenance Questions
May 16, 2000
- U.S. museums release lists of artworks that have gaps in their ownership histories between 1933 and 1945.
May 11, 2000
- WJC asks German museum not to glorify Nazi dealer
May 7, 2000
- Jewish group wants all Nazi art loot listed on Web
April 30, 2000
- Germany Receives Soviet-Seized Art
April 28, 2000
- French Heirs Seek Texas Matisse
- Russia to Keep Ownership of War-Looted German Artworks
- Amber Room Piece Back in Russia
April 20, 2000, Part II
- Germany Shows Amber Room Furniture
April 20, 2000
- Germany, Russia to exchange looted art
April 18, 2000
- Update - WWII / Holocaust Looted Art Resources (Jonathan Sazonoff)
March 30, 2000
- Theft from glass museum in Duesseldorf, Germany.
- Austria has 186,000 books looted by Nazis--WJC
- Nazi-confiscated property
March 24, 2000
- Painting Stolen in Nazi Era Found in Getty Collection
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to Publish List of European Paintings with Nazi-Era Provenance Questions
March 21, 2000
- NYC museum clears famous painting from Nazi taint
March 20, 2000
- NYC museum has famous painting seized by Nazis
March 18, 2000
- Los Angeles museum to identify possible Nazi loot
- U.S.report details which Austrians got property of Holocaust victims
- Jewish group says it will not deal with Austria
March 16, 2000
- New York City museum says Rubens is not Nazi loot
- Painting Abandoned to Nazis Is Returned
- Museum red-flags 1425 work
- Art Institute of Chicago negotiating with Holocaust victim's heir over painting
March 11, 2000
- Museum Says Painting May Have Been Nazi Loot
- The biggest piece of jewellery in the world (the Amber Room)
- Group Urges Rubens Painting Probe
- U.S. commission to turn spotlight on Holocaust art
March 8, 2000
Israeli experts propose museums keep looted art
March 7, 2000
- looted degas painting
March 1, 2000
- U.S. museum finds painting handled by Nazi dealer
March 1, 2000
- British art galleries checked for Nazi loot
- Difficulties in proving ownership
- A list of works of unknown provenance has gone on the Internet
- Proving ownership is a legal minefield
- Why museums may have been too scrupulous
February 20, 2000
- Israel restores ownership of Nazi-looted Pissarro - More than 100 Tate paintings on list of suspected Nazi loot
February 18, 2000
- Britain takes lead in returning art stolen by the Nazis
February 17, 2000
- Nazis Stole 600,000 Pieces of Art
February 8, 2000
- Plundered art on the line
January 23, 2000
- Re: Web Site to List Artworks Lost to the Nazis Registry should speed up process of restoring valuables previously owned by Jewish victims
January 21, 2000
- Re: Web Site to List Artworks Lost to the Nazis Registry should speed up process of restoring valuables previously owned by Jewish victims
January 18, 2000
- Web Site to List Artworks Lost to the Nazis
Registry should speed up process of restoring valuables previously owned by Jewish victims
January 13, 2000
- Austrian art in dispute: Were portraits bequeathed by owner or stolen by Nazis?
- Austrian Museum May Have Looted Art
December 15 - 18, 1999
- Buried royal treasure fetches GBP.2.3m at auction
December 15 - 18, 1999
- Dutch museums get to keep masterpieces stolen by Nazis, court rules (Dutch authorities behaved in a controversial way regarding the collection of Amsterdam art dealer Jacques Goudstikker after recovering many works of his wonderful collection of old masters which was stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War)
December 15 - 18, 1999
- France hands back stolen Nazi loot to heirs
December 10 - 13, 1999
- Germans mull database to return art taken by Nazis
December 9, 1999
- Nazi link cancels art sale
November 23/27, 1999
- Azerbaijan To Return 14 Works Of Art To Bremen Museum
November 10, 1999
- Art May Have Been Stolen by Nazis (North Carolina Museum of Art)

- U.S. man charged selling stolen 16th Century art
October 16, 1999
- Tarnished Gold, U.S. Report Says G.I.'s Liberated, Then Looted Nazi Train Carrying Assets of Hungarian Jews
October 11, 1999
- American sues Hungary for art looted by Nazis
September 25, 1999
- N.Y. legislator wants tougher law on stolen art
September 24, 1999
- Painting's Return to Austria Barred (The move came hours after a state court said the painting could go back)
September 23, 1999
- Bid to Bar Return of Paintings Fails
September 22, 1999
- Court Rules on Museum Art's Return (New York's highest court ruled MOMA can return two paintings to Austria despite allegations that they had been stolen by the Nazis from their Jewish owners)
September 18, 1999
- "Art, Law and the Holocaust", Symposium to be held at the Courtauld Institute London
September 15, 1999
- Jewish Heirs Sue Austria Over Art
- RE: nazi stolen art posting (Tom Dixon)
- RE: nazi stolen art posting (Antony Anderson)
September 11, 1999
- Russians rebuilding 'Amber Chamber' known as 'Eighth Wonder of the World'
September 11, 1999
- RE: Nazi Paintings Posting (Christopher Atkins: 'absolutely ridiculous and I am appalled that you even posted it'), and moderator's reply
September 5, 1999
- Heirs sell art once looted by Nazis to casino mogul (When the Seattle Art Museum returned Henri Matisse's "Odalisque" to the family who lost it to the Nazis, one heir of collector Paul Rosenberg said she was happy "his children are finally coming home." Not for long)
September 3, 1999
- Jammers' Einsicht und Seligmanns Buecher
August 20, 1999
- Jewish lawyers enter Nazi-looted art fray
August 12, 1999
- WWII & Holocaust Stolen Art Issues (Jonathan Sazonoff)
August 2, 1999
- Tate faces claim for Nazi art loot (Jewish family says Old Master was stolen from them)
July 29, 1999
- Wildenstein art collectors sued in New York
July 29, 1999
- Vandals attack Nazi death camp memorial in Germany
July 27, 1999
- RE: A van Gogh went; The missing $82 million painting (Connie Lowenthal) (The article Connie Lowenthal is referring to is available at: ../99/041.html
July 26, 1999
- Looted Nazi painting turns up in Israel
- Museum 'will return stolen oil painting'
July 21, 1999
- Russian Court Knocks Down Art Law
July 16, 1999
- New York agency obtains return of Holocaust art
July 11, 1999
- Russia catalogs artwork lost by Nazi looting during war years
July 9, 1999
- Book stolen by Nazis sells for UKPounds:8m
July 6, 1999
- Return all our stolen works of art first, Russia tells Germany
July 3, 1999
- Rothschilds to sell art Nazis looted
July 2, 1999
- Austrian Decision Ends Hopes for Restitution on Klimt Works
June 24, 1999
- Holocaust Art Restitution Project Announces Its Involvement in the Restitution of Four Works Plundered by Nazis
- How Mussolini park ruined frescoes of Nero's palace
- U.S. Writer (Hector Feliciano) Wins WWII Art Suit
June 21, 1999
- SAM to Return Matisse Odalisque to Rosenbergs (official press release by Seattle Art Museum)
- Holocaust Victims Can Recover Art
- Czech Government to Restore to Jewish Museum 67 Paintings Nationalised by Communists
June 3, 1999
- Russian court starts hearings on stolen art law
June 3, 1999
Holocaust widow set to win back UKP.3m painting; a breakthrough over Nazi loot
(Discovering truth about the auctions of despair)
(An everyday tale of theft and murder)
(Claim sets a precedent)
May 29, 1999
- RUSSIAN LAW ON "TROPHY ART" REMOVED BY SOVIET TROOPS DURING AND AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II
Looted Monet returned (Times of London, April 30, 1999): April 30, 1999
French Jews can't speak for other Holocaust victims-WJC: March 22, 1999
Nazi hunter urges probe into Nazi looting and slave labor: March 22, 1999
Restitution for Holocaust is symbolic: By Jo Sandin of the Journal Sentinel staff March 21, 1999
March 20, 1999: U.S. launches new search for Holocaust assets
March 19, 1999: Help recover missing pieces of Triptych of Johannes Matthaus Koelz
Disputed art to stay in New York during probe ; 08:57 p.m Mar 16, 1999
March 3, 1999: In London, Masterpieces Plundered by Nazis May Be on Display
March 1, 1999: Galleries to seek out Nazi plunder
February 26, 1999; French Get Nazi Art Out Fast, Critic Says (French diplomats shipped two paintings from their United Nations mission back to Paris after complaints they were displaying art that had been plundered by the Nazis.)
02/25/99: Question of ownership taints MFA painting: Case spotlights moral, legal issues By Walter V. Robinson, Globe Staff
02/22/99: Uncovering what the Nazis stole: Expert describes efforts to find artwork taken during war
02/18/99: Kosovo talks site houses looted art
02/12/99: Looted Art In French Presidential Palace
02/11/99: Paris museum has proof cubist painting looted by Nazis from Jewish collector
02/10/99: Nazi-looted art returned to heirs
01/27/99: London Holocaust Conference
01/14/99: Jewish group attacks France over disputed art
01/12/99: French court tells museum to surrender Klimt
01/03/99: Monet taken by Nazis is barred from exhibition
12/29/98: Russia reaffirms pledge to return Nazi-looted art
12/19/98: Doubts raised on Monet plaque: French 'whitewash' past, Zakim says. By Walter V. Robinson, Globe Staff, 12/19/98
12/25/98: Brazil searches for Nazi-looted works of art
12/25/98: WJC Suspects France Will Retain 2,000 Looted Artworks
12/29/98: Despite Critics, Nazi Loot Hunt Is Right & Proper
12/07/98: Monet painting's disputed past may keep it out of London show
12/0698: Conference Agrees On Guidelines For Nazi-Looted Art
12/06/98: Albright talks of blood and balance at Holocaust conference
12/06/98: Pompidou center has looted Picasso - Jewish group
November 98: Chirac Wants France To Keep Art Nazis Looted
November 98: Meeting on Nazi loot opens in D.C.
November 98: Museum sued by Jews over Braque 'theft'
November 98: French museum says it is owner of Nazi-seized art
November 98: Russia Said Willing To Help On Holocaust Era Art
November 98: Monet in MFA show believed Nazi plunder By Walter V. Robinson, Globe Staff, 11/30/98
November 98: Painting Lost in Holocaust Resurfaces in Dutch Ambassador to Israel's Official Residence
November 98: Monet painting's past left unexplained by MFA
id. id.: Paris has a fresh look at The Kiss FROM BEN MACINTYRE IN PARIS
id. :Loyola professor tracks art looted during the Holocaust By Michael Hill Sun Staff
Hunt Launched For Looted Nazi Art Treasures
Paris denies blame in looting Jewish property
Austria forced to face Nazi theft record
INT-LAW Re: Holocaust Asset Litigation - US Fed court materials
Brazilian commission hunts for artworks looted by Nazis
Austria approves restitution of Nazi art loot
List Reveals Names of Nazi-Era Art Looters
France publishes catalogue of art Nazis stole
WWII / Holocaust Stolen Art (Part 1 - History)
Brazilian commission hunts for artworks looted by Nazis
September 98
High court case on Dutch art stolen from German
STOLEN PAINTINGS FROM WWII
Boston museum battles town over Monet, other paintings
Dealing with legacy of Nazi art thefts (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
High Court sends looted Old Master back to Germany (Daily Telegraph London
300,000 pictures 'are still missing' (Daily Telegraph London)
Austria vows to restitute Nazi art loot (Reuters)
Germany wins court battle for looted painting (Times of London) (same subject as first article above)
Brazil to get art stolen by Nazis
NEW UN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT CAN PROSECUTE "CULTURAL" WAR CRIMES IN BOTH INTERNATIONAL WARS AND NON-INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICTS (Patrick Boylan)
Museums fight to keep Hitler art treasures
August 1998
Art with a dubious past (Irish Times)
U.S. will try to catalog art treasures stolen by the Nazis
Holocaust victims' heirs given share of a Degas
Heirs sue museum for painting (Universal Time)
Gallery is sued over 'looted' art (Times of London)
Bubis urges Russia, US help to find gold files (Reuters)
Nazi-Plundered Art Hard to Trace (Universal Time)
July 1998
U.S. museum curators frustrated in hunt for looted Nazi artwork
Moves for guidelines on Holocaust art
Schiele - and no end? (Die Presse, Wien. translation: Antonia Kriks: antonia.kriks@munich.netsurf.de)
Effort is set to find art Nazis stole
June 1998
Searching for Art Stolen During WWII by Nazi War Criminals
Art Loss Register Announces Initiative to Set Up Holocaust Art Database
170 museums to review collections for stolen art
How did all that art end up in museums?
May 1998
return of the looted treasures
Dutch Probe Into Nazi-Plundered Art (Appraiserl@aol.com)
Appeal (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
NY judge orders Schiele paintings back to Austria
- Judge rejects seizure of disputed paintings from a N.Y. museum
- Judge blocks attempt to seize art allegedly stolen by Nazis
- Resolving a case that had alarmed the international art world
- Judge says disputed paintings can return to Austria
- International paintings can't be seized
- US court releases disputed works of art
- 16th century paintings stolen from Germany to be returned
- Looted war art heads back to German university
Treasure hunter closes on legendary Nazi loot; Mystery of the lost amber (Sunday Times)
April 1998
Art looted by Nazis in Austrian museums - report
Swiss defer comment on looted art until report out
Poland: Germany Seeks Cultural Treasures (Radio Free Europe)
Dispute about paintings (Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Samstag/Sonntag 28/29 Maerz 1998)
Schiele-paintings: Hearing again delayed ("Die Presse", Wien)
Nazi loot (Victoria Cranner: ics@SHORE.NET)
U.S. to Host Second Meeting on Nazi Looting (WASHINGTON, Reuters)
Deceased Collector Bestows Art Riches Upon National Gallery (Washington Post) THE NETHERLANDS MY HAVE CLAIM ON VAN GOGH PAINTING
March 1998
Dispute about looted art in France's museums
Is the "GIRL" allowed to travel? (Schiele)
Dutch state may be sued over wartime Jewish art (Reuters Limited.)
'Looted art' : Tug of war is going on
Switzerland and the Looted Art Trade Linked to World War II
The Netherlands: Museums are searching for looted art
Confront the Past, Search for Provenance, By HECTOR FELICIANO
Austria may favor returning artwork plundered by Nazis
'Looted art' in German Museums
February 1998
Series: Looted art - The misappropriated inheritance
Re: Nazis-WWII stolen art from the Louvre
Objection rejected: Schiele paintings remain confiscated
Nazi Loot and relevant websites
Re: CONFERENCE ON NAZI GOLD AND TREATMENT OF HOLOCAUST
How the Republic of Austria forced the Rothschilds to donate art.
How much confiscated NAZI art is in Austrian Museums?
Will there be a new US art acquisition law after the Schiele case?
Art, museums and the 'Third Reich' (Die Presse , Vienna)
Nazi loot
Museums' stance on Nazi loot belies their role in a key case
The Art Plunder Problem; Panel Told of Efforts to Deal With Nazi Loot
RE: Looted Art and Congress
U.S. Museums To Check For Nazi-Looted Art
Re: Looted Art and Congress
CONFERENCE ON NAZI GOLD AND TREATMENT OF HOLOCAUST ASSETS
PROVENANCE (the Wildenstein Gallery and the alleged allegations that Georges Wildenstein arranged for his collections be preserved and returned to him when confiscated by the German ERR and Goering in 1941).
Beutekunst (Die Presse, Vienna 13 February 1998, American Museums check stocks).
Museums slammed over art stolen during World War II
Dutch Jewish art ``was plundered twice'
US-customs investigates on Schiele; The verdict wether the confiscation was legal will be not until the beginning of March
" Beutekunst", Looted Art
Braque masterpiece, in the Pompidou Center, may have been stolen two articles about the same:
- - Plunder in Vichy France reported
- - Paris bought Braque looted by Nazis
German art deal smooths exiles' return
New hope for Schiele (Die Presse Vienna)
January 1998
Further developments in the Schiele Case-Die Presse Vienna
Schiele in New York: New delays - What does Prosecuting Attorney Morgenthau want?
Panel Studying Nazi Wartime Loot; French Can't Estimate Booty
Schiele (translations german articles and comments)
Seeking Moral Justice by the Return of Looted Art
Looted Art from Vienna and Salzburg in the Louvre? Sabine Fehlemann, Director of the Von-der-Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal, found looted art from WWII in the Louvre
Official files on compulsory art traffic: Minister Gehrer is going to have the origins of paintings in Austrian Museums historically and scientifically investigated.
Re: Looted Art from Vienna and Salzburg in the Louvre?
Museum art seized in Nazi looting row
U.S. defends Austria art seizure, probe launched
Austria outraged as U.S. seizes Schiele pictures
Austria-USA-MOMA-Schiele: "The USA has forced the art world into a banana republic"
Museum refuses request to retain paintings that were apparently stolen by Nazis.
MOMA stays out of dispute over ownership of paintings

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