CPA News
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Reaches Restitution Deal
27th Jun, 2011The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston said it would pay an unspecified amount to the heir of an art dealer who was killed at Auschwitz and will keep a 17th-century Dutch painting in its collection that was once owned by the dealer and likely seized by the ... Click for more...
Supreme Court won't hear looted-art claim against Norton Simon
27th Jun, 2011The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided not to take up an appeal from Marei Von Saher, who is trying to wrest a prized, 480-year-old “Adam and Eve” diptych by Lucas Cranach the Elder from the Norton Simon Museum, where the paintings have hung sinc... Click for more...
Restitution body doing 'nothing' for claimants
23rd Jun, 2011A Holocaust restitution organisation has been widely criticised by survivors and experts who say it has ignored compensation claims and neglected its duties.Backed by £300,000 of Czech Foreign Ministry funding, the European Shoah Legacy Institute (ESL... Click for more...
Record £24m sale ends family's battle over art looted by Nazis
23rd Jun, 2011Sotheby's set a £24.68 million record for artist Egon Schiele to close a 10-year scandal over a painting stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War. 'Houses With Washing Lines', 1914, one of Schiele's masterpieces, was sent to auction in London b... Click for more...
Recovering Artwork Owned by U.S. Government
10th Jun, 2011In 1942, with World War II raging, the Library of Congress took the precaution of sending some of its national treasures to a guarded facility in the Midwest, including a collection of Walt Whitman’s papers, which were sealed in packing cases prior t... Click for more...
Holocaust Records Project
30th May, 2011The Holocaust Records Project has the task of identifying, preserving, describing, and microfilming (now digitizing) more than twenty million pages of records created by the Allies in occupied Europe regarding Nazi looted art and the restitution of nat... Click for more...
Archive of artworks stolen by Nazis goes online
5th May, 2011Thanks to a deal between some of the world's leading archives and museums, an online catalogue of documents has been created to help families, historians and researchers track down artworks stolen by the Nazis. Under an agreement signed by organisation... Click for more...
Singer Boy George returns 18th-century icon to Cyprus' Orthodox Church
24th Jan, 2011Cyprus' Orthodox Christian Church on Thursday thanked former Culture Club singer Boy George for retunring an icon of Christ it says was stolen from a church in the breakaway north of the divided island. Click for more...
