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
Ongoing events have weakened irrevocably the triumphalist message that Germany had hoped to send with its November agreement concerning the Gurlitt bequest to the Kunstmuseum Bern, and the January opening of the Deutsches Zentrum für Kulturgutverluste (the German Center for Lost Cultural Property). Instead, the self-congratulatory air that surrounded those events is starting to look like a premature "Mission Accomplished" moment.
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Cornelius Gurlitt,
Holocaust Art Restitution Project,
Uta Werner,
Adolph von Menzel,
Nazi-looted art,
Gurlitt Collection,
Seated Woman,
Sachsenhausen,
Matisse,
Saturday Night Live,
George Eduard Behrens,
Advisory Commission,
Hamburg,
L. Behrens & Söhne,
Gurlitt,
German Cultural Minister,
Der Spiegel,
Hjalmar Schacht,
German Center for Lost Cultural Property,
Minister of Economics,
Marc Masurovsky,
Washington Principles,
Kristallnacht,
Monika Grütters,
Great Depression,
Deutsches Zentrum für Kulturgutverluste,
Pariser Wochentag,
Paris Weekday,
Welfenschatz,
Limbach Commission,
Heidelberg
Catherine Hickley reports from Berlin that the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel is looking into ways to put lists and/or photographs online concerning the Cornelius Gurlitt seizure of roughly 1,400 paintings with connections to Nazi looting. This followed heavy complaints in the first days of the revelation, that the government had failed to identify what has been found. The biggest question remains why this remained a secret for roughly two years since the discovery. Merkel’s government claimed yesterday it learned of the find only in the last few months.
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Stephanie Barron,
Jeu de Paume,
unbekannte Meisterwerke,
Focus,
Hildebrand Gurlitt,
Theo Hermsen,
S. Lane Faison,
Linz Führermuseum,
Munich Central Collecting Point,
Wiesbaden Collecting Point,
HARP,
Max Liebermann,
WWII,
Monuments Men,
Alt Aussee,
Gurlitt Collection,
Max Beckmann,
Association for Research into Crimes Against Art,
Monuments,
Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Naz,
Albrecht Dürer,
Auktionshaus Lempertz,
Entartete Kunst,
Fine Arts and Archives Program,
Nazis,
Marc Chagall,
Paul Klee,
Entdeckung verschollener Kunst,
beschlagnahmte Bilder,
Holocaust Art Project,
Judge Arthur Tompkins,
Roberts Commission,
Angela Merkel,
Restitution,
1939 Galerie Fischer auction,
World War II,
degenerate art,
Capt. Doubinsky,
Los Angeles County Musuem of Art,
Erben,
Raubkunst-Bildern,
Altmann v. Republic of Austria,
Portrait of Wally,
Löwenbändiger,
Marc Masurovsky,
Franz Marc,
Oskar Kokoschka,
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,
München,
Pablo Picasso,
ARCA,
Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservat,
Nazi Raubkunst,
Henri Matisse,
Emil Nolde
Next Friday November 1, 2013, the Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation is holding its annual conference, and hosting and event entitled "The Monuments Men, Social Media, the Law and Cultural Heritage." It is being held at Fordham Law School, Lincoln Center Campus, 140 W. 62nd Street, New York, NY 10023, from 8:30 pm to 6:00 pm. Scheduled speakers include Robert Edsel and Lynn Nicholas. This is an all-star cast.
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Darius Arya,
Leila Amineddoleh,
Chasing Aphrodite,
Thomas R. Kline,
George Clooney,
Lynn Nicholas,
Richard B. Jackson,
The Rape of Europa,
Diane Penneys Edelman,
Robert Edsel,
Lucille Roussin,
Lincoln Center,
Fordham Law School,
Jason Felch,
Irina Tarsis,
Elizabeth Varner,
Salam al-Kuntar,
Events,
David D’Arcy,
Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Program,
Holocaust Restitution and Claims Practicum,
National Art Museum of Sport,
World War II,
Monica Dugot,
Anne Rothfeld,
Portrait of Wally,
Marc Masurovsky,
Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservat,
Corine Wegener,
Laurie W. Rush,
James McAndrew
The ABA Journal is conducting its annual poll of the best 100 blogs. For arts and the law, the blogs I read the most are below. If you are a blog reader, consider casting a vote. We are all engaged in a great conversation, and your voice matters to what we write. If nothing else, read these blogs!
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Topics:
Donn Zaretsky,
Blogs,
MItchell Stein,
Kim Herman,
Peter Bert,
Association for Research into Crimes Against Art,
Lee Rosenbaum,
Commission for Looted Art in Europe,
Plundered Art,
CultureGrrl,
ARIS,
Harry Ekblom,
Holocaust Art Research Project,
Dispute Resolution in Germany,
Looted Art,
Marc Masurovsky,
The Art Law Blog,
ARCA,
Trending Trademarks,
Business Aviation Law Blog,
Center for Art Law
