A judge has ruled in favor of a Southern California museum in its 10-year legal battle over the ownership of two German Renaissance masterpieces that were seized by the Nazis in World War II.
In a remarkable scandal that has been covered up by Germany for decades, Nazi-looted art was handed over to the families of the thieves who had taken them in the first place, instead of being returned to the original Jewish owners.
Over seven decades after they were stolen by the Nazis during the Holocaust, two drawings by Austrian artist Egon Schiele will be returned to their rightful Jewish owners.
France's World War II archives have helped produce an unusual art book: a catalog of more than 1,000 paintings, tapestries and sculptures amassed by senior Nazi official Hermann Goering — many of them stolen from Jews deported to death camps.
The Cassirer family has filed an appeal hoping to retrieve the 1897 Pissarro masterpiece they claim is theirs after a court ruled that a museum in Spain owns the Nazi-looted painting.
A Matisse painting that was looted by the Nazis and became part of a German collector's long-hidden trove was handed over on Friday to the heirs of a Jewish art dealer.