New book explores the historical, ethical, and legal consequences of stolen art
I am pleased to announce that my book A Tragic Fate—Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art (Ankerwycke/ABA Publishing ) is available for purchase and delivery. I am proud to have composed the first comprehensive overview of looted art disputes in the United States, grounded in the historical and ethical perspectives that have shaped the debate over time. This has been a fascinating project that am very excited to share. As I hope readers of the blog will agree, my effort is always to provide a resource that those of general interest will find engaging but not hypertechincal, and which practioners will find useful as a resource.
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Topics:
Catherine Hickley,
Nazi-looted art,
Sullivan & Worcester LLP,
Books,
Georgina Adam,
Nicholas M. O'Donnell,
Art Law Report,
ABA Publishing,
Ankerwycke,
A Tragic Fate,
Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art
The Hans Sachs collection that the Bundesgerichtshof in Karlsruhe ordered in March be returned to the Sachs heirs will be put up for auction in New York. The collection had more than 12,000 posters by artist that included Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Ludwig Hohlwein, Lucian Bernhard and Jules Cheret. The Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin, a museum of German history, held for several decades parts of a poster collection was seized from Sachs in 1938. After his arrest and incarceration, Sachs fled the country with his family.
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Berlin,
Lucian Bernhard,
Guernsey’s Auctioneers & Brokers,
Catherine Hickley,
Hans Sachs,
Bloomberg,
Bundesgerichtshof,
Ludwig Hohlwein,
Restitution,
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,
Karlsruhe,
World War II,
Arlan Ettinger,
Deutsches Historisches Museum,
New York
Catherine Hickley of Bloomberg reports today from Berlin about a court-ordered return of more than 4,000 once owned by Hans Sachs, a Jewish dentist chased out of Nazi Germany. The Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) is Germany’s highest civil court, and handed down the decision.
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Berlin,
Lucian Bernhard,
Catherine Hickley,
Hans Sachs,
Bloomberg,
Sachsenhausen,
Bundesgerichtshof,
Ludwig Hohlwein,
Deutches Historisches Museum,
Collections,
Restitution,
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,
World War II,
BGH,
Kristallnacht
The regional government of Berlin has decided to return two paintings by German Expressionist Karl Schmidt-Rotluff to the heirs of the paintings’ one-time owner (article in German).
As reported by Catherine Hickley of Bloomberg in Berlin, the paintings, a 1920 self-portrait and a 1910 landscape entitled “Farm in Dangast” once belonged to Robert Graetz, a businessman from Berlin who was deported to Poland in 1942. After a claim by Graetz’s grandson Roberto (Graetz), a government panel headed by Jutta Limbach (a former constitutional judge) concluded that the loss was almost certainly the product of persecution and should be returned. Berlin Culture Secretary Andre Schmitz has now said that the government will follow the panel’s recommendation.
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Topics:
Berlin,
Catherine Hickley,
Karl Schmidt-Rotluff,
Robert Graetz,
Restitution,
Farm in Dangast,
World War II,
degenerate art,
Jutta Limbach,
Washington Principles
