US EditionSupreme Court Orders Reconsideration of Nazi-Looted Painting Case
- The U.S. Supreme Court revived a family’s claim to recover Camille Pissarro’s painting, previously stolen by the Nazis, under a new California law protecting heirs of Holocaust survivors.
- The painting, now held by the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum, was once owned by Lilly Cassirer Neubauer, a Jewish woman who surrendered it to the Nazis.
- David Cassirer, great-grandson of the painting's original owner, expressed gratitude to the U.S. Supreme Court for applying principles of right and wrong in the matter.
- California Governor Gavin Newsom stated that the legal framework surrounding stolen Holocaust art must balance moral claims and ownership issues to ensure justice for families affected.
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A Museum Worthy of Spain’s Democratic Transition
In the late 1970s, nationalist vigilantes tried to destroy Pablo Picasso’s Guernica. Today the painting itself is safe — but the museum in which it is housed has again become the focus of right-wing polemics. A woman views Pablo Picasso's Guernica painting at the Reina Sofia museum on September 10, 2021, in Madrid, Spain. (Denis Doyle / Getty Images) Twentieth-century Spain could boast of world-leading artists from Salvador Dalí to Joan Miró an…
US Supreme Court reopens case over rightful ownership of Nazi-looted painting
The US Supreme Court on Monday revived a case on the fate of “Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain,” a painting by French impressionist Camille Pissarro now worth millions. The court ordered that the case be reconsidered under a recently-passed California law intended to make it easier for Holocaust survivors and their families to recover stolen art. The painting is currently in a Spanish museum but could be returned to the plaintif…
Plunderer Shows How Art Looting Continues to Pay Off
“They’ve been had! The Monuments Men were had!” exclaims Emmanuelle Polack, the art historian in charge of World War II provenance inquiries at the Louvre, in Plunderer: The Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief. The new documentary, directed by Hugo Macgregor and currently streaming on pbs.org and the PBS app, unravels the past and present tentacles of a key Nazi art looter, Bruno Lohse, who was in charge of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg …
US Supreme Court Decision Reopens Family’s Efforts to Recover Nazi-Stolen Painting Worth Millions
A ruling by the US Supreme Court on Monday has restarted a fight over the ownership of artist Camille Pissarro's 1897 oil painting "Rue Saint-Honoré, in the afternoon. Effect of rain," a work stolen by the Nazi regime and now hanging in Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum. Citing a new California law, the justices reversed the decision
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