Resources

Below is a list of web, printed resources and provenance research dealing with the topic of art restitution to Holocaust victims and their heirs.

PAPERS AND ARTICLES OF INTEREST | WEB RESOURCES | PROVENANCE RESEARCH

PAPERS AND ARTICLES OF INTEREST

• Abandoned Bill Signed into Law: Written by Frank Lord and Yael Weitz (Art & Advocacy (a Herrick Feinstein Newsletter), Winter 2009)
• An Amicable End to a Nazi-era Spoliation Claim, Illicit Cultural Property, April 11, 2011
• Archive Dispute Derails Art Loans From Russia New York Times, February 2, 2011
• Art & Advocacy (Herrick Feinstein) Winter 2010, Vol. 5: Holocaust Art Restitution Litigation in 2009
• Article: Austria Urges Return of Altar Panels to Jewish Heir
• Art in the Crossfire: A Jewish Sect’s Claims Have Led to a U.S.-Russia Embargo by Laura Gilbert, New York Observer, August 16, 2011
• Art Restitution in Hungary:A Comparative Case Study of the Sarospatak Books and the Herzog Collection, by Jennifer Mohr Otterson (Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs), June 3, 2011
• Claim by Museums of Public Trusteeship and their Response to Restitution Claims: A Self-Serving Attempt to Keep Holocaust-Looted Art, By Charles A. Goldstein and Yael Weitz
• Court Hearing Coming Over a Baroque Painting Looted by Nazis, Los Angeles Times, March 7, 2011
• Publication: Cultural Heritage & Arts Review, Vol I, Issue 2, The American Society of International Law ("ASIL")
• The Ethicist: Tragic Artifacts by Randy Cohen, New York Times, January 14, 2011.
• Family’s Claim Against MoMA Hinges on Dates, By Patricia Cohen, The New York Times, August 23, 2011
• Federal Agents Seize Painting Plundered By Nazis from Public Display in Tallahassee, Sunshine State News, November 5, 2011
• Goudstikker Exhibition at the Jewish Museum: Article written by Frank Lord, Art & Advocacy (a Herrick Feinstein Newsletter, Vol. I, Winter 2009)
• The Associated Press, Happy Ending for looted Courbet painting in Paris exhibit (Oct 12, 2007)
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  • Outline of Legal Principles Governing Holocaust-Looted Art Cases(Including a List of Leading Cases and Other Resources for Reference), Howard N. Spiegler, September 2011
• Konstantin Akinsha, “The Mysterious Journey of an Erotic Masterpiece,” ARTnews (Feb 2008)
• Lucian Simmons, Christie’s, USHMM Speech – September 2011
• The Mauerbach Scandal: An exhibition in Vienna brings to light new evidence of Austria’s reluctance to return art looted by the Nazis, Written by: Konstantin Akinsha (ARTnews Magazine, February 2009)
• MOMA’s Problematic Provenances, William D. Cohan, ARTnews, November 17, 2011. Behind a lawsuit brought against the Museum of Modern Art by the heirs of George Grosz lies a troubling history of acquiring works seized by the Nazis and sold to support the German war effort
• Museums Aim to Probe Nazi Art Seizures, The Local, January 26, 2011
• Nazi-looted art and the market by: Daniella Luxembourg (Art Newspaper, December 2008)
• Paper: The Particular Position of the Museum Director, Curator and Registrar in Holocaust-Related Claims, by Charles A. Goldstein and Yael Weitz, September 2010
• Recovering Looted Jewish Cultural Property, Constance Lowenthal. The Permanent Court of Arbitration/Peace Palace Papers 2004
• Report of the Association of Art Museum Directors Task Force on the Spoliation of Art during the Nazi/World War II Era
• Restitution Experience Since The Washington Conference (1998), AN OVERVIEW, By Charles A. Goldstein, Esq.
• Rome Plans to open Italy's first-ever Holocaust Museum Within Ten Years, World Jewish Congress, February 23, 2011
• Russian Federal Law on Cultural Valuables Displaced to the USSR as a Result of the Second World War and Located on the Territory of the Russian Federation
• Russia, the U.S. and Art as a Diplomatic Weapon, New York Times, February 13, 2011 - Letter to the Editor from Charles A. Goldstein
• Swiss Want Clearer Picture of Looted Nazi Art, SwissInfo.ch, January 20, 2011
• Taking it Personally: The Individual Liability of Museum Personnel (A Collection of Essays) by Professor Norman Palmer and Ruth Redmond Cooper, Published by Institute of Art an Law (London)
• Translation of an article entitled "The Shame of the Mauerbach Auction" from Der Standard, dated November 30, 2008
• Carol Vogel, RETURN OF LOOTED PORTRAIT, New York Times, January 13, 2011
• Whose Art Is It Anyway?: Written by Mari-Claudia Jimenez (Art & Advocacy (a Herrick Feinstein Newsletter), Winter 2009)

WEB RESOURCES

• The American Society of International Law
  • Guarding the Historical Record from the Nazi-Era Art Litigation Tumbling Toward the Supreme Court, by Jennifer Anglim Kreder
  • State Law Holocaust-Era Art Claims and Federal Executive Power, by Jennifer Anglim Kreder, 2011
• Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg: Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume Launched October 18, 2010
  • Press Release
  • Additional Background
  • Holocaust Art Restitution Project (HARP) blog on plundered art
  • Dispersed Nazi Records of Art Looting Located and Documented in New Survey Sponsored by the Claims Conference, Aiding Restitution Efforts by Providing Art World and Claimants with Access to Original Files, April 28, 2011
• American Association of Museums Guidelines Concerning the Unlawful Appropriation of Objects During the Nazi Era
• New York Bar Association Art Committee Internet Resources
• The Art Loss Register
• CIVS Activity reports (1999-2009) of the Commission for Compensation of Victims of Spoliations resulting from the anti-semitic legislation in force during the Occupation in France presented to the Prime Minister.
• The Claims Conference (The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany)
  • Disperesed Nazi Records of Art Looting Located and Documented in New Survey, April 2011
• Commission For Looted Art in Europe
• European Journal of International Law
• Expert Group "Mobility of Collections" Subgroup "Immunity from Seizure" Report, June 2010 (latest study on immunity from seizure legislation in the EU)
• Foundation for Jewish Culture: Council of American Jewish Museums
• Herkomst gezocht
• Holocaust Claims Processing Office, State of New York Banking Department
• Institute of Art and Law
• IFAR - International Foundation for Art Research
  • HERZOG HEIRS CAN PROCEED WITH U.S. ACTION TO RECOVER ALL BUT 11 ARTWORKS: IFAR Journal, Vol. 12, no. 4, 2011
• The Jewish Museum - Special Exhibition - Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker
• Looted Art Internet Database - Magdeburg, Germany
• Origins Unknown
• Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the US
• Restitution of Holocaust Victims' Assets - The Company for Location and Restitution of Holocaust Victims' Assets: Seventy years after the Holocaust of the Jewish Nation, The Company for Location and Restitution of Holocaust Victims' Assets was established with the goal of doing historical justice with the victims and reinstating the assets of Holocaust victims located in Israel to their rightful beneficiaries.
• United States Department of State
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• United States – National Archives and Records Administration.
• Holocaust-Era Assets: A Finding Aid to Records at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland
• Washington Conference Principles On Nazi-Confiscated Art

PROVENANCE RESEARCH

• Global Catalogue of Nazi looted art records published online in world first