What the Gurlitt case has exposed is that Germany does not yet have a comprehensive answer to the problem of looted art.In 1998 Germany and 43 other countries signed the Washington Principles pledging to search their public collections for looted art in order to restitute it.
Seized by the Nazis on the eve of World War II and dispatched to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, it was restituted to Bondy's widow, Elizabeth, in 1948.
Even after the Fall, where Adam and his descendants lost their initial power over animals, it is restituted after the Flood: 'Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you.
In 1948, the portrait was restituted to Rosenberg who sold it shortly after.
In a written statement released Monday, museum officials stated: "Working in cooperation with representatives of the Goudstikker heirs, the Getty's research revealed that the painting was in Goudstikker's inventory at the time of the invasion in 1940, and that it was never restituted after World War II.
Following the Velvet Revolution in 1989 that brought then-Czechoslovakia freedom from four decades of Communist rule the "Velvet Divorce" amicably separated Slovakia from the Czech Republic in 1993 the government either restituted or sold the assets it confiscated, including the spas and hotels.
It restitutes our wounded narcissism... "People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves.
The migration of a very important Venetian Renaissance portrait of Cardinal Bessarion, by Gentile Bellini, from Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum to London's National Gallery a few years ago raised no eyebrows and stirred little interest - yet it was another case of a work restituted and promptly sold.
Most of the ten highest-priced works were bought by anonymous purchasers, with the exception of an arresting Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painting, "Berliner Strassenszene," restituted by a Berlin museum to the Hess family this summer; it was bought by Ronald Lauder's Neue Galerie for $38.1 million (all prices include commission).
