The Forward

The World Set Rules For Returning Nazi-Looted Art. Are They Working?

In November, the Austrian government revealed that nearly two decades ago it returned the wrong Nazi-looted Gustav Klimt painting to the wrong Jewish family. France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, is ...
Artnet

It’s Been 20 Years Since the Creation of the ‘Washington Principles’ to Return Nazi-Looted Art. But How Effective Have They Been?

Germany is leading the efforts to restitute Nazi-looted art, but other countries are lagging behind. American soldiers look at a work looted by the Nazis during World War II. Photo courtesy of the ...
insider.si.edu

Heinrich Wölfflin's Principles of art history

Wölfflin in Germany / Horst Bredekamp -- Wölfflin's Swiss legacy / Oskar Bätschmann -- Formalist dissent: why did the Vienna school ignore Wölfflin's Principles? / Hans Aurenhammer -- Wölfflin in the ...
Observer

20 Years On, It’s Time to Admit Our Rules for Handling Nazi-Looted Art Have Failed

Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I, 1907, which was involved in one of the most high-profile and protracted restitution disputes. Neue Galerie But it seems like there are some tough ...
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“Heroes: Principles of African Greatness” Opens at the National Museum of African Art Nov. 16

Media preview: Tuesday, Nov. 12; 9:30–11:30 a.m. in the museum’s lecture hall, sublevel 2. “Heroes: Principles of African Greatness” opens at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art Nov. 16.