Press Releases
Bavaria to investigate return
of art to high-ranking Nazi families – Dombauverein commits to
restitution of Kraus family painting
- Bavaria
to investigate return of art to high-ranking Nazi families –
Dombauverein commits to restitution of Kraus family painting
14th July 2016
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Press Release
Bavaria to investigate return of art to
high-ranking Nazi families – Dombauverein commits to restitution of
Kraus family painting
London
14 July 2016: On 27 June the Commission for Looted Art in Europe (CLAE)
issued a press release revealing that after the war Germany had
returned Nazi-looted art to the high-ranking Nazi families who stole it
rather than to the families from whom it was taken. This scandal had
been covered up by Germany for several decades.
In the
Bavarian Parliament yesterday, the Art Committee, Kunstausschuss,
unanimously agreed that the State Government must publish a report on
works of art which “with the assistance of the management of the
Staatsgemäldesammlungen (State Paintings Collections) or the State
Government” were handed back to high-ranking Nazis and their families.
CLAE
Co-Chair, Anne Webber, said: “We welcome the swift action taken by the
Bavarian Parliament and the seriousness of their response. We look
forward to a speedy, transparent and comprehensive investigation of
these transactions and the way they have been concealed. The
investigation must include clarification of the provenance of the
artworks so that the rightful owners of any works that were looted can
be identified and assured of restitution or compensatory justice. The
Bavarian government must also ensure that all documents from the State
Paintings Collection and other relevant government bodies are published
and made fully accessible.”
CLAE’s
research revealed that one painting. attributed to the Dutch Old Master
Jan van der Heyden and seized from the collection of Gottlieb and
Mathilde Kraus of Vienna in 1941, was returned in 1962 to Henriette
Hoffmann-von Schirach, daughter of Hitler’s close friend and
photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, and wife of the Gauleiter of Vienna,
Baldur von Schirach. Von Schirach was condemned at Nuremberg for crimes
against humanity for the deportation of 60,000 Austrian Jews.
- Bayern
untersucht Kunstrückverkäufe an hochrangige Nazi Familien -
Dombauverein verpflichtet sich der Restitution für Bild der Kraus
Familie
14th July 2016
- Nazi-Looted Art returned by Germany to the high-ranking Nazis who looted it rather than returning it to rightful owners
27th June 2016
- El Greco portrait looted by the Nazis returned to rightful owners
24th March 2015
- Joint
Press Release by the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and Commission
for Looted Art in Europe on ‘Pariser Platz in Berlin’ by Oskar Kokoschka
29th April 2014-
Joint Press Release by the Stiftung Preußischer
Kulturbesitz and Commission for Looted Art in Europe on ‘Pariser Platz
in Berlin’ by Oskar Kokoschka
The
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz is working with the Commission for
Looted Art in Europe to clarify the provenance of the painting ‘Pariser
Platz in Berlin’ by Oskar Kokoschka. The Commission for Looted Art in
Europe represents the family of Anna Caspari, a distinguished dealer in
Munich who was deported from Germany and murdered by the Nazis in Riga
in 1941. The artwork belonged to the Caspari family / the Galerie
Caspari.
- Great Expansion in Records Available on Nazi-Era Cultural Property Portal
9th May 2013
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Press Release
Great Expansion in Records Available on Nazi-Era Cultural Property Portal
London 9 May 2013:
Two years after the signing of a global agreement in Washington D.C.
to widen public access to all records related to looted cultural
artefacts from the Nazi era, the International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural Property
has gained momentum with an additional nine organisations joining, an
improved online web portal and access to a larger number and range of
newly digitised documents.
Existing and new members of the Portal met yesterday at The UK National Archives to report on progress of the online Portal at http://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/international-resources/index.html
which was created to fulfil the 1998 Washington Conference Principle
on Nazi-Confiscated Art that ‘Relevant records and archives be open and
accessible’. The project helps families, researchers and historians by
identifying, cataloguing and digitising the archival materials and
making them available through a single International Research Portal hosted by the US National Archives and Records Administration in Washington DC.
- "... because Mr. Goldschmidt is a Jew, of course."
8th February 2013
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Press Release
"... because Mr. Goldschmidt is a Jew, of course."
8
February 2013: Restitution of one of the finest collections of Goethe
and Schiller almanacs and books, numbering some 2,000 volumes, has taken
place at the Herzog Anna Amalia Library in Weimar. Librarian Jürgen
Weber describes the forced sale by Arthur Goldschmidt of these 2,000
rare items from his library of 40,000 volumes, under the pressure of
persecution, discrimination and dispossession, and the venal approach of
the Library which used Goldschmidt's situation to force the sale at
the shockingly low price of 2,000 RM, "because he is a Jew", rather
than the modest 50,000 RM sought by Goldschmidt. The Library turned for
assistance to the Commission for Looted Art in Europe
which traced the family and uncovered its tragic history. To read the
full account of the Goldschmidt family and the behaviour of the Anna
Amalia in the Nazi era, click here.
Issue date: 8th February 2013
- International
Holocaust Archive to be available in the UK for the first time - UK
Government Foreign & Commonwealth Office Press Release
14th December 2011
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Press Release
International Holocaust Archive to be
available in the UK for the first time - UK Government Foreign &
Commonwealth Office Press Release
The International Tracing Service (ITS) archive contains records from
concentration, slave labour and displaced persons’ camps from the
Nazi-era, the Second World War and the ten years that followed.
The UK public will soon be able to access the digital archive, free of charge, at The Wiener Library
in London - the world's oldest Holocaust memorial institution. The
Library already hosts the UK’s largest collection of personal papers and
testimonies of refugees and Holocaust survivors.
On 14
December, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office will jointly host a
reception with the UK ITS Stakeholder Group to mark the arrival in the
UK of the digital archive. The Stakeholder Group comprises the leading
UK scholars on Nazi Germany as well as the major groups and
institutions from across the UK engaged with the Holocaust and its
aftermath.
- Global Catalogue of Nazi looted art records published online in world first - CLAE and National Archives UK Joint Press Release:
6th May 2011
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Press Release
Global Catalogue of Nazi looted art records published online in world first - CLAE and National Archives UK Joint Press Release:
**EMBARGOED TILL 16.00 5 May 2011**
Global Catalogue of Nazi looted art records published online in world first“Use
every means of transport to get all works of art out of Florence ….
saving works of art from English and Americans. In fine get anything
away that you can get hold of.
Heil Hitler.”
Heinrich Himmler (HW1/3113)
The National Archives and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe
today signed a global agreement in Washington DC with leading national
archives and museums, to provide an international online catalogue of
documentation on looted cultural artefacts to aid historians,
researchers and families trace the history and provenance of objects
taken by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945.
- National Archives and Partners Launch New International Nazi-Era Records Internet Portal : US National Archives Press Release
5th May 2011
- National
Archives and Its Partners Launch New International Nazi-Era Records
Internet Portal - US National Archives Press Release
28th April 2011
- CLAE Press Release: Dresden Gallery Returns Looted Painting to its Rightful Owner
6th April 2011
- UK Government Appoints First Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues - CLAE and Association of Jewish Refugees Joint Press Release
9th June 2010
- UK appoints Envoy for post-Holocaust Issues - UK Government Foreign & Commonwealth Office Press Release
9th June 2010
- CLAE
Press Release: Restitution of three Nazi-Looted Gold-Glass Bases from
the Israel Museum Jerusalem to the Heirs of the Działyńska Collection
1st July 2008
- CLAE Press Release: Nazi-looted Limoges cross returns to Poland from Austria after 67 years
6th May 2008
- Salzburg Police Press Release: Valuable Passion Cross Found in Rubbish
16th August 2007
- CLAE
and Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Joint Press Release: Lost
16th century 'Portrait of a lady with a dog' returns to the
Gemäldegalerie Berlin after 60 years
31st May 2006
- CLAE Press Release: Application for Restitution of Nazi-Looted Drawings Turned Down
27th May 2005
- British Museum Press Release: High Court Judgement - 27 May 2005 - Holocaust Spoliation and the Feldmann Drawings
27th May 2005
- Hunt Museum Press Release: Hunt Museum Announces Group to Review Recent Allegations
20th February 2004
- Hunt Museum Press Release: Hunt Museum takes action to examine Centre Simon Wiesenthal allegations about the Hunt Collection
13th February 2004
- British Museum Press Release: Restitution claim considered by the British Museum
1st October 2002
- CLAE and British Museum Joint Press Release: British Museum receives restitution claim
27th May 2002
- CLAE Press Release: Holland returns 233 Nazi looted art works
18th April 2002
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