A recent study presented by Bénédicte Savoy and Albert Gouaffo, professors at Technische Universität in Berlin and the University of Dschang in Cameroon, respectively, has revealed…
Browsing: Restitution
In a recent development in the ongoing saga of art restitution, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris was ordered to return a group of Impressionist paintings to…
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has decided to return a 16th-century ceremonial shield that was confiscated by the Nazis during World War II to the Czech…
London returned a collection of Maqdala objects, seized by the British troops in 1868, to the Ethiopian ambassador. This summer they had been bought by the…
Amsterdam has planned to restitute a painting by Wassily Kandinsky to the heirs of its original Jewish owner. The decision was made after years long legal dispute over…
A group of decorated bricks dating from around 700BCn which was looted from an Iranian archaeological site has now been recovered from a bonded warehouse in…
U.S. prosecutors are attempting to return a 10th-century sculpture that they claimed had been stolen from Cambodia in 1997. The statue comes from the site of…
French museums are heading to court over their refusal to restitute works of art claimed by Jewish families persecuted by the Nazis. On Friday, attorney Corinne…
A 1917 watercolor by Egon Schiele, Kauernder weiblicher Akt (Crouching Female Nude), that was recently restituted by Colonge’s Museum Ludwig will be sold during Sotheby’s Impressionist and modern art evening…
