German court rejects return of art to Nazi's family
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A top German court rejected on Thursday restitution claims by relatives of a Nazi doctor for art confiscated by Soviet occupiers after the war in a ruling which could set a precedent for a host of similar cases.
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A lawyer's $15.7 million fee for negotiating the return of art stolen by the Nazis was too high, a Dutch court ruled Friday.
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British historian David Irving has his conviction for denying the Holocaust upheld by the Austrian Supreme Court.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has turned to the courts to validate its claim to a 1913 Oskar Kokoschka painting sought by Claudia Seger-Thomschitz, an Austrian woman who says it was sold under duress during the Nazi occupation of Austria, The Boston Globe reported. Lawyers for Ms. Seger-Thomschitz contend that there is no doubt that the Kokoschka painting, âTwo Nudes (Lovers),â was sold under duress by Oskar Reichel, a physician who ran an art gallery in Vienna. The Museum of Fine Arts, citing months of research, maintained that the sale in 1939 was voluntary and to another Jew, the Viennese art dealer Otto Kallir. âThe painting was never confiscated by the Nazis, was never sold by force as a result of Nazi persecution and was not otherwise taken from Dr. Reichel,â the museumâs complaint states. Ms. Seger-Thomschitzâs lawyers said they would respond to the suit.
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A German court has blocked the extradition to Denmark of a former member of the Nazi SS wanted in the Scandinavian country for the assassination of a journalist in 1943, it said Monday.
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A German state court has rejected a suit filed by a homeowner who complained against noise from Alemannia Aachen's Tivoli stadium.
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The Netherlands may have to give up paintings once acquired by the Nazis for Adolf Hitler's collection if a state commission determines that a Jewish art dealer was forced to sell the 227 works, Dutch officials said Wednesday.
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Now that a growing number of paintings returned from museums to Jewish families who once owned them have been fetching millions at auction, critics in Germany and Austria say that the claims of restitution have little to do with justice
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A court on Tuesday rejected a last-ditch attempt to block the extradition of a Dutch citizen charged with terror attacks on American troops in his native Iraq in 2003.
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BERLIN: A show of modern art belonging to the millionaire grandson of a convicted Nazi industrialist has opened in Berlin to a row over whether the owner had done enough to atone for his family history.
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A German high court Friday upheld a government ban on an Islamic charity organization which was said to have collected money for the radical Palestinian movement Hamas.
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A show of modern art belonging to the millionaire grandson of a convicted Nazi industrialist opened in Berlin on Tuesday, and stoked a row over whether the owner had done enough to atone for his family history.
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a dispute involving actress Elizabeth Taylor over ownership of a Vincent van Gogh painting. The painting is claimed by descendants of a Jewish woman who fled Nazi Germany.  The painting, worth mi...
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A painting held by a German baroness rightfully belongs to the estate of a late Jewish art dealer who was forced by Nazi authorities to auction it off, a federal judge ruled.
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A man whose family forged statues and paintings and then passed them off as priceless pieces of art to museums including the Art Institute of Chicago received a two-year suspended sentence Monday.
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Paint is poured outside a Berlin exhibition in protest at the artworks' owner, whose grandfather sold arms to the Nazis.
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A descendant of a previous owner of two Picassos claims they were sold under duress during the Nazi regime, and that the paintings, now at the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art, belong to him.