Topic
Art Restitution
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The Right Coast
La Mesa heirs of Nazi-looted Pissarro painting lose legal battle to Spanish museum – The San Diego Union-Tribune
After nearly two decades of litigation that has included a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously Tuesday that a Spanish museum…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
A Jewish family fleeing the Nazis sold a Picasso in 1938. Their heirs want it back
One of Pablo Picasso's Blue Period paintings, "Woman Ironing (La rapasseuse)," is at the center of a lawsuit between a Jewish family and the Guggenheim Museum. Karl Adler and Rosi…
For Purpose Law Group Blog
Charities in the Courtroom 2.2: WW Two Art Claim With a Twist (Part Two)
“Why haven’t claims about the ‘theft, looting, and forced sale of hundreds of thousands of artworks’ long ago been barred by a statute of limitations or other time-related defense?” That’s…
ContractsProf Blog
Family Sues the Guggenheim to Recover Picasso Sold Under Duress in 1938
It is a familiar tale, but each has its own wrinkles. The basics, provided by Toyin Owoseje on CNN.com, are that a wealthy German Jewish family either is forced to…
Art Law Blog
NY Museums Required to Label the Last Prisoners of World War II
By Zach Dai*
The artworks stolen by the Nazis are the last prisoners of World War II. – Ronald Lauder, Woman in Gold Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer was a wealthy sugar magnate in Vienna, Austria…
Dispute Resolution in Germany
Art Law: Restitution of Looted Art and the Reform of Private Foundation Law
By Peter Bert
The restitution case of Felix Hildesheimer’s heirs against the Hagemann Foundation made news recently: On 18 January 2021, the Advisory Commission (Limbach Commission) issued a press release that for the first…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Supreme Court Denies Heirs’ Claim to Nazi Obtained Art
In a unanimous ruling, The U.S. Supreme Court decided that Jews who had property taken from them by Nazi Germany in the 1930s will not be allowed "to sue in…
HHR Art Law
UPDATE – Dispute over Ownership of Nazi Victim’s Art Turns to Pre-judgment Interest
By John Kilgard
Woman in a Black Pinafore (l) and Woman Hiding Her Face (r) Following the New York Appellate Division’s affirmance of the New York State Supreme Court’s decision in Reif v.…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Supreme Court agrees to hear Nazi art case
On Thursday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case involving the descendants of a group of Jewish art dealers from Germany who say their ancestors were forced to sell…
Art Law Perspectives
New York’s Appellate Division Upholds Return of Artworks to Heirs
By Jana Farmer
Just a few days after the Second Circuit held that New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art could keep in its collection the monumental work by Pablo Picasso entitled The Actor,…