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Claims for restitution of artworks alleged to have been looted during the National Socialist era continue and, if anything, have grown in complexity and become more difficult to resolve both in Europe and the United States. There are overwhelming factual and legal differences particularly between the U.S.A. and continental European countries, however, approaches on both sides of the Atlantic le [...]
Marei von Saher, heir of Jacques Goudstikker, one of the leading pre-War dealers in The Netherlands, has brought suit against the Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena in California to recover possession of paintings of Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder. During the wartime occupation of The Netherlands, Alois Miedl, a close associate of Hermann Goering, took over the Goudstikker gallery [...]
After nearly four and a half years of litigation, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the Republic of Turkey’s ownership claim to an ancient marble idol owned by private collector Michael Steinhardt and that had been consigned to Christie’s auction house in New York. Although the Court recognized the 1906 Ottoman Decree as a valid patrimony law enforceabl [...]
Basing its claim on a 1906 Ottoman Decree, Turkey initiated and lost a replevin lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Christie’s and antiquities collector Michael Steinhardt to gain possession of an ancient object, an Anatolian Marble Female Idol of Kiliya-type, believed to date from the mid [...]