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German soldiers in Naples, Italy, in 1944, pose with a painting taken from the National Museum of Naples Picture Gallery. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) It’s never just as simple as “finders keepers, ...
Fighting for the return of Nazi-looted art 06:31. ... "Not erased, never erased," Falk replied. "Members of our family died because of it. In my mind, it's a way to repair the damage that was done." ...
Few who see Picasso's "The Actor "at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art know its complicated history. Paul Leffmann, a German Jewish businessman, sold it in 1938. "It used to hang in the home ...
When Franco's forces won the civil war in Spain, ardent Loyalist Pablo Picasso vowed he would never return, ... Art: Rebel’s Return. 1 minute read. TIME. November 25, 1957 12:00 AM GMT-5.
The United Kingdom’s Spoliation Advisory Panel, which works to return Nazi-looted art, said Germans took Henry Gibbs’ 1654 oil canvas work “Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy” from ...
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in late February, an increasingly familiar scene played out: A museum was restituting a work of art, giving back something from its collection to the place where ...
Hitler could not destroy art that he did not like. Trump will never be able to truly destroy art that he does not like. Susan Kogan, Rancho Mission Viejo. Show Comments. Letters to the Editor.
Seven years on and the French government's very public commitment to return art and cultural objects back to Africa, seemed to have stalled. Nearly a decade ago, French President Emmanuel Macron ...