This shocking sculpture invokes both Nazi delirium and Jewish theology
Anselm Kiefer’s “Breaking of the Vessels,” weighing more than seven tons, is one of the artist’s many manic dissections of ...
A $300 Million Art Trove and the Labyrinth of Nazi-Era Art Claims
Claims on the Guelph Treasure stretch back nearly two decades, and Germany’s plans to change how restitutions are evaluated ...
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Was Nazi-looted art concealed from Jewish heirs?
During the Nazi dictatorship between 1933 and 1945, experts say that at least 200,000 works of art were taken from their mostly Jewish owners in Germany, whether through direct expropriation or ...
Fighting for the return of Nazi-looted art
New guidelines agreed to last year by 21 nations (including the U.S.), and a recent French law, may make it easier for Jewish families to claim ownership of artworks that they believe were sold under ...
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Mordechai Rosenstein, calligrapher whose art illuminates Jewish homes and synagogues, dies at 90
One of his best-known pieces, based on the Biblical phrase “Justice, justice, you shall pursue” (Deuteronomy 16:20), is a frequent gift for Jewish lawyers and judges. His art “has a modern ...
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The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry
Since the artist's early death in 1879 at the age of 23, Polish nationalists, and finally the Israeli Jewish establishment have laid claim to his art. Yet Mendelsohn shows that the subjects Gottlieb ...
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Was Nazi-looted art in Germany concealed from Jewish heirs?
During the Nazi dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945, experts say that at least 200,000 works of art were taken from their mostly Jewish owners in Germany, whether through direct ...