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Neo-Nazis online insist that Hitler's art was far better than any of the "degenerate art" he destroyed. But were his ...
The painting by the Nazi artist Heinrich Knirr was originally installed in the German embassy in London in 1937 ...
(JTA) — When Samuel Hartveld and his wife Claire Melboom fled Belgium in 1940, they left behind a collection of over 60 paintings that was later looted by the occupying Nazi government. Hartveld, a ...
Toronto filmmaker Jamie Kastner started his film with an open mind, and presents a balanced picture. 'Of course, I’m a human ...
The long-running lawsuit alleges a forced sale of the Guelph Treasure — called the Welfenschatz in Germany — from a consortium of Jewish art dealers to the Prussian state in 1935 at the direction of ...
The heirs and great-grandchildren of Jewish Belgian art collector Samuel Hartveld are set to receive a painting by Henry Gibbs currently in the ...
The panel, which investigates claims for Nazi-looted art in UK public collections, decided the painting was “looted as an act of racial persecution”. Hartveld left the painting behind when he ...
“This decision clearly acknowledges the awful Nazi persecution of Samuel Hartveld and that the clearly looted painting belonged to Mr Hartveld, a Jewish Belgian art collector and dealer,” the trust ...
Spoliation Advisory Panel rules that 'Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy' will be returned to descendants of Samuel ...