Looted art

looted art

Library of Lost Books: Exhibit seeks help finding Nazi-looted texts

The project, titled “Have you seen this book?” invites the public to help locate Jewish books lost in WWII.

 One of the books featured in the exhibit.
 Museum of the Bible to debut world’s oldest Jewish book.

Brooklyn Judaica seller signs deal to return Nazi-looted 16th-century Bible to Budapest

 Governor Newsom signs AB 2867 with Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel and children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.

Gov. Newsom signs bill allowing residents to recover possessions stolen in Holocaust

 Desecrated Tel Kedesh gravesigns

Roman-era graves vandalized in Israel's ancient Tel Kedesh site


Russian forces systematically stealing Ukrainian art, cultural artifacts - report

This was exemplified in what happened during the Russian withdrawal from Kherson, which saw Russian forces take down statues and steal 15,000 works of art.

 The Kherson Art Museum

Jewish cabaret artist’s paintings, stolen by Nazis, to be auctioned

Grünbaum was said to be the inspiration for a character in the 1972 film “Cabaret” and was also a real-life collector of the works of Schiele, an Austrian expressionist artist.

Fritz Grünbaum was an Austrian Jewish cabaret performer and art collector.

Paintings looted by Nazis to be presented in Israel for the first time

"The subject of stolen art is very important - it is about the heritage of the Jewish people."

A woman walks past artworks at the exhibition "Gurlitt: Status Report. An Art Dealer in Nazi Germany" during a media preview at Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin, Germany, September 13, 2018

Global fight against terror-tainted black market antiquities intensifies

The British Museum is slated to open a major exhibition of Assyrian artifacts as experts warn that ISIS-looted items is still a problem.

A statue destroyed by Islamic State militants is seen in the town of Bashiqa, after it was recaptured from the Islamic State, east of Mosul, Iraq November 10, 2016

French gov. returns paintings to heirs of Jewish couple who fled Nazis

The 16th-century oil paintings by the Flemish master Joachim Patinir were handed over Monday in Paris to the descendants of Herta and Henry Bromberg.

General view of the exterior of the Louvre Museum in Paris August 12, 2009. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen

Nazi-looted art may still reach heirs of original Jewish owner

Basel Art Museum owns 120 drawings and prints potentially worth millions of dollars, that belonged to Curt Glaser.

A security guard stands near a painting of " Madonna" by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch