A German task force investigating the provenance of a spectacular Nazi-era art hoard of hundreds of works said Thursday that only five had been proved to be looted thus far, and defended its slow progress.
The Wiesbaden Museum was once a collection house for art stolen from Jewish owners by the Nazi. With one painting, they hope to right at least one wrong while bringing awareness to its ongoing restitution work.
Officials investigating the discovery of hundreds of artworks found in a Munich flat are to publish the names of all 590 paintings thought to have been seized by the Nazis.
Who is the reclusive 80-year-old behind the huge trove of Nazi-confiscated art found in a Munich flat? The Local takes a closer look at Cornelius Gurlitt as our German of the week.
Previously unknown masterpieces by modernist painters Marc Chagall and Otto Dix are among a vast trove of works believed stolen by the Nazis and uncovered in a Munich flat, an art historian said Tuesday.