art theft

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• SOURCE: Forward
  1/17/2022
  

  Will SCOTUS Uphold Claim of Heirs for Return of Pissarro Painting Stolen by Nazis?

  Lower courts have agreed with the Spanish government that US courts are not empowered to adjudicate claims of looted art; if the Supreme Court agrees it could chill further attempts to use American law to return artworks stolen from Europe's Jews by the Nazis. 

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• 12/12/2021
  

  Acquiring Eyes: The Unlikely Cross-Cultural Partnership Behind the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

  by Charles Dellheim

  The world of American art collecting was transformed by the unlikely partnership of the Boston Brahmin Isabella Stewart Gardner and the ambitious Russian Jewish immigrant Bernhard Berenson.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/17/2021
  

  How a Historian Got Close, Maybe Too Close, to a Nazi Thief

  Historian Jonathan Petropoulous forged a relationship with Bruno Lohse, the art agent of Hermann Göring. That relationship proved ethically dubious when the professor did paid contract work for heirs of a German Jewish family to trace a stolen painting and the trail led to a foundation owned by Lohse.