I am speaking at a conference on March 23-24, 2017 at the University of Cambridge (UK) entitled “From Refugees to Restitution: The History of Nazi Looted Art in the UK in Transnational Perspective.” My presentation will address the various national panels created in response to the Washington Conference by European countries to address claims for Nazi-looted art in state collections. The roster of speakers is impressive (present company excluded), and it promises to be a fascinating two days. The program is available here, and the conference website is here.
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Wiesbaden,
London,
Holocaust Art Restitution Project,
Paris,
Art Recovery Group,
Constantine Cannon LLP,
Emily Löffler,
Pierre Valentin,
Events,
Johannes Nathan,
Karlsruhe,
Marc Masurovsky,
Sotheby's,
Nicholas M. O'Donnell,
Emmanuelle Polack,
Leopold Museum,
Frankfurt,
Jewish Claims Conference,
Victoria Louise Steinwachs,
Debbie De Girolamo,
Tabitha I. Oost,
Bianca Gaudenzi,
Jewish Museum Prague,
Robert Holzbauer,
Tessa Rosebrock,
Staatliche Kunsthalle,
Laurel Zuckerman,
Shlomit Steinberg,
Richard Aronowitz-Mercer,
Maike Brueggen,
Nathalie Neumann,
Simone Gigliotti,
Royal Holloway University of London,
Anne O. Popham,
Ulrike Schmiegelt-Rietig,
Isabel von Klitzing,
Landesmuseum Mainz,
Michaela Sidenberg,
Mary Kate Cleary,
Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art,
Fluchtgut,
Diana Kostyrko,
Elizabeth Campbell,
University of Denver,
Evelien Campfens,
Leiden University,
Angelina Giovani,
Jennifer Gramer,
Agata Wolska,
Nathan Fine Art GmbH,
Potsdam,
Friederike Schwelle,
Art Loss Register,
Provenance Research & Art Consulting
Germany Runs Counter to 20 Years of International Commitments
As readers know, my clients Alan Philipp and Gerald Stiebel sued the Federal Republic of Germany and the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) in February for restitution of the Guelph Treasure (or Welfenschatz as it is known in Germany), assisted by my co-counsel Mel Urbach, Esq. and Markus Stötzel of Marburg, Germany. As my co-counsel speak to an event tonight hosted by Congresswoman Grace Meng on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, an event inextricable to the persecution of Jews in Europe, Germany’s response to the Complaint advances a stunning revisionism about the Holocaust and the international commitments that Germany has made. While paying lip service to the seriousness of Jewish suffering, the papers filed in court are nothing less than an attempt to move the goalposts to exempt a historical period from responsibility about which there can be no serious debate. Independent condemnation was not far behind the filing.
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Topics:
Grace Meng,
Simon Wiesenthal Center,
Shoah,
Adolph von Menzel,
Hans Sachs,
Washington Principles on Nazi-Looted Art,
1943 London Inter-Allied Declaration,
Dachau,
Holocaust,
Mel Urbach,
SPK,
George Eduard Behrens,
Nuremberg race laws,
Holocaust revisionism,
Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz,
Marburg,
Restitution,
Los Angeles,
Gerald Stiebel,
World War II,
Markus Stötzel,
Saemy Rosenberg,
Deutsches Historisches Museum,
Reichskristallnacht,
Isaac Rosenbaum,
Lucie Ruth Hackenbroch,
Federal Republic of Germany,
Zacharias Hackenbroch,
Pariser Wochentag,
Rabbi Abraham Cooper,
Paris Weekday,
Alan Philipp,
Welfenschatz,
Military Government Law 59,
Frankfurt
The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart has agreed to return Bildnis Pfalzgraf Johann III (Portrait of Elector-Palatine Johann III), ca. 1526, by Hans Wertinger to the heirs of the art dealers Saemy Rosenberg and Isaak Rosenbaum, the owners of the art dealer firm I. Rosenbaum in Frankfurt. Rosenbaum and Rosenberg sold the Wertinger in 1936, but the proceeds were paid into a Nazi-blocked account. The work eventually ended up with collector Heinrich Scheufelen in 1948.
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Stefan Koldehoff,
Joint Declaration,
Nazi-looted art,
Baden-Württemberg,
Washington Principles on Nazi-Looted Art,
Heinrich Scheufelen,
Die Bilder Sind Unter Uns,
SPK,
Portrait of Elector-Palatine Johann III,
Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz,
Nazi terror,
Isaak Rosenbaum,
Deutschlandfunk,
Restitution,
coerced sale,
World War II,
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart,
Saemy Rosenberg,
Jürgen Walter,
Museums,
forced sale,
Zacharias Hackenbroch,
Bildnis Pfalzgraf Johann III,
Welfenschatz,
The Pictures Are Under Us,
I. Rosenbaum,
Frankfurt
The ABA Journal has opened voting again on its annual “Blog 100,” a roll of notable legal blogs. I’ve submitted votes for the following blogs (in no particular order), which I have bookmarked and consult regularly. The great thing about blogging, I have found, is the ability it gives the reader (and the blogger) to survey multiple perspectives on a subject. So when resale royalties are under discussion, or fair use, I don’t want to read only articles that I agree with or that take the same approach that I would. I also want to hear something I never would have thought of, and expand the conversation.
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Topics:
Donn Zaretsky,
Paul Howcroft,
ABA Journal,
Stropheus,
Blogs,
Judith Prowda,
Art Law & More,
London,
Peter Bert,
Fladgate LLP,
Richard Lehun,
Constantine Cannon LLP,
Irina Tarsis,
Blog 100,
Azmina Jasani,
Pierre Valentin,
Silberman and Associates,
Dispute Resolution in Germany,
Art@Law,
Boodle Hatfield LLP,
Taylor Wessing,
Natalia Mikolajczyk,
Private Art Investor,
The Art Law Blog,
Art Law London,
Becky Shaw,
Tim Maxwell,
Center for Art Law,
Frankfurt
