https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Germany said on Wednesday it had returned to its rightful owners the last artwork confirmed as looted by the Nazis uncovered in the collection of a reclusive Munich pensioner. https://www.thelocal.de/20210113/germany-returns-final-nazi-looted-work-from-pensioners-trove Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:15:52 +0100 germany-returns-final-nazi-looted-work-from-pensioners-trove The German government Wednesday handed three works of art stolen during the Nazi occupation of France back to descendants of their original owner, collector and Jewish lawyer Armand Dorville. https://www.thelocal.de/20200123/germany-returns-artwork-stolen-by-nazis-to-french-family Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:47:28 +0100 germany-returns-artwork-stolen-by-nazis-to-french-family Germany on Wednesday returned a painting looted by the Nazis which ended up in the spectacular art hoard of Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a Third Reich-era art dealer, to the family of a French real estate broker. https://www.thelocal.de/20190704/germany-hands-back-nazi-looted-artwork-to-french-heirs Thu, 04 Jul 2019 10:19:28 +0200 germany-hands-back-nazi-looted-artwork-to-french-heirs A German court Thursday threw out a challenge to the will of collector Cornelius Gurlitt, clearing the way for a spectacular Nazi-era art hoard found in his home to go to a Swiss museum. https://www.thelocal.de/20161215/munich-court-clears-way-for-swiss-museum-to Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:49:33 +0100 munich-court-clears-way-for-swiss-museum-to A German task force investigating the provenance of a spectacular Nazi-era art hoard of hundreds of works said Thursday that only five had been proved to be looted thus far, and defended its slow progress. https://www.thelocal.de/20160115/germans-defend-slow-progress-on-sorting-nazi-looted-art-collection Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:10:03 +0100 germans-defend-slow-progress-on-sorting-nazi-looted-art-collection Investigators poring over the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt, son of Hitler's art dealer, have managed to identify just five works that were definitely stolen by the Nazis and can be returned to their rightful owners. https://www.thelocal.de/20151222/just-five-nazi-stolen-paintings-found-in-haul-of-500 Tue, 22 Dec 2015 12:27:08 +0100 just-five-nazi-stolen-paintings-found-in-haul-of-500 A group of US Congressmen have sent a letter to Bavarian Minister President Horst Seehofer, urging him to do more to help return art stolen by the Nazis to its rightful owners. https://www.thelocal.de/20151127/bavaria-accused-of-hoarding-art-looted-by-nazis Fri, 27 Nov 2015 12:34:46 +0100 bavaria-accused-of-hoarding-art-looted-by-nazis Police searched a villa in a wealthy suburb of Kiel on Wednesday and found a Second World War tank, a torpedo and other weaponry in the cellar. On Thursday they were still working on removing the tank. https://www.thelocal.de/20150702/police-find-wwii-tank-hidden-in-cellar Thu, 02 Jul 2015 18:10:32 +0200 police-find-wwii-tank-hidden-in-cellar A Nazi-looted painting that was hidden for decades is being auctioned by Sotheby's Wednesday in a rare sale as investigators work painstakingly to identify the origins of hundreds of other works from the same haul. https://www.thelocal.de/20150624/nazi-looted-painting-from-munich-haul-to-be-auctioned Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:10:08 +0200 nazi-looted-painting-from-munich-haul-to-be-auctioned A painting by Max Liebermann from a Nazi-era art trove found in Germany last year will go on sale in London next month, the first from the collection to be sold off, Sotheby's said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150523/nazi-era-art-trove-at-sotherbys-sale Sat, 23 May 2015 12:33:41 +0200 nazi-era-art-trove-at-sotherbys-sale A painting by French artist Henri Matisse has been returned to the heirs of the people it was stolen from by the Nazis, after it spent decades in an art dealer's private hoard. https://www.thelocal.de/20150515/painting-from-nazi-hoard-returned-to-owner Fri, 15 May 2015 14:09:09 +0200 painting-from-nazi-hoard-returned-to-owner The Bavarian government rejected on Thursday an attempt by Hermann Göring's daughter to win back her father's assets, which the government seized in 1948. https://www.thelocal.de/20150424/grings-daughter-fails-in-bid-to-win-fathers-assets Fri, 24 Apr 2015 14:32:59 +0200 grings-daughter-fails-in-bid-to-win-fathers-assets The Bern Museum of Fine Art announced on Monday that it would accept a huge haul of works left to it in the will of the son of a Nazi-era art dealer. https://www.thelocal.de/20141124/swiss-museum-accepts-art-looted-by-nazis Mon, 24 Nov 2014 13:23:00 +0100 swiss-museum-accepts-art-looted-by-nazis The reclusive son of a Nazi-era art dealer who amassed a giant secret collection snuck a Monet with him into the German hospital where he died in May, investigators said Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20140906/monet-discovered-in-suitcase-of-nazi-art-hoarder Sat, 06 Sep 2014 09:35:00 +0200 monet-discovered-in-suitcase-of-nazi-art-hoarder A Swiss museum that unexpectedly inherited a disputed hoard of priceless paintings, some likely plundered from Jews during World War II, plans to send a team to Germany to inspect the treasure. https://www.thelocal.de/20140509/swiss-museum-to-send Fri, 09 May 2014 10:27:00 +0200 swiss-museum-to-send A vast Nazi-era art collection belonging to Cornelius Gurlitt will head to a Swiss museum following the death of the German recluse on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20140507/cornelius-gurlitt-dead-works-could-be-given-to-foreign-institution Wed, 07 May 2014 11:00:00 +0200 cornelius-gurlitt-dead-works-could-be-given-to-foreign-institution UPDATE: The reclusive German son of a Nazi-era art dealer who hoarded hundreds of priceless paintings in his Munich flat for decades including works plundered from Jews died on Tuesday aged 81. https://www.thelocal.de/20140506/gurlitt-dead Tue, 06 May 2014 18:02:00 +0200 gurlitt-dead UPDATE: A collection of paintings seized from the reclusive son of a Nazi art dealer are to be given back to him. The decision comes two days after Cornelius Gurlitt agreed to return any works found to have been looted by the Nazis. https://www.thelocal.de/20140409/prosecutors-to-release-cornelius-gurlitt-art-collection-2 Wed, 09 Apr 2014 14:31:00 +0200 prosecutors-to-release-cornelius-gurlitt-art-collection-2 Lawyers acting for mysterious art collector Cornelius Gurlitt have launched a website making the case for the recluse's right to keep his collection. Meanwhile negotiations continue over works suspected to be Nazi "loot." https://www.thelocal.de/20140217/gurlitt-negotiates-with-nazi-looted-art-claimants Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:04:00 +0100 gurlitt-negotiates-with-nazi-looted-art-claimants Germany will double funding for efforts to return Nazi-looted art to their rightful owners and may invite Jewish representatives to join a mediation body, the government said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20140129/germany-doubles-funding-efforts-to-return-nazi-looted-art Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:42:00 +0100 germany-doubles-funding-efforts-to-return-nazi-looted-art