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Pieces of art looted by the Nazis can still be found in Russian/Soviet [49] and American institutions: the Metropolitan Museum of Art revealed a list of 393 paintings that have gaps in their provenance during the Nazi Era, the Art Institute of Chicago has posted a listing of more than 500 works "for which links in the chain of ownership for the ...
The Nazis were so vehemently against the loss of the art that they had plundered for this museum that there was a plan to destroy a stockpile of art saved for the Führermuseum at the Altaussee salt mines, which held over 12000 pieces of stolen art, using eight 500-kilogram bombs. [5]
In June 2021 Bavarian officials refused to refer the dispute to the national commission created to review claims of art lost in the Nazi era. [91] Edvard Munch "A summer's night on the beach" (1902) Alma Mahler-Werfel [92] claim against sterreichische Galerie Belvedere [93] Restituted to Mahler-Werfel heirs after long battle [93] [94] [95 ...
The chalk-painting "Bord de Mer," by Claude Monet, created in 1865. The painting was stolen from Adalbert Parlagi by the Nazis in 1940, and returned to his descendants by the New Orleans FBI ...
New York prosecutors on Friday returned two pieces of art they say were stolen by Nazis from a Jewish performer and collector murdered in the Holocaust. The artworks were surrendered by museums in ...
In 1940, the Nazis seized a Claude Monet pastel and seven other works of art from Adalbert "Bela" and Hilda Parlagi, a Jewish couple forced to flee their Vienna home after Austria was annexed into ...
Altaussee, May 1945 after the removal of the eight 500 kg bombs at the Nazi stolen art repository. Between 1943 and 1945, the extensive complex of salt mines in Altaussee served as a huge repository for art stolen by the Nazis. It also contained holdings from Austrian collections.
In 2019, the Gimpel heirs went to court to recoup the Derain paintings. But proving that the artworks had been stolen by the Nazis nearly 80 years earlier posed a challenge.