Sentence examples for restituted items from inspiring English sources

The overwhelming majority of restituted items are of little monetary value – they are a reminder of lost continuity, a family unit destroyed, the contents of a home brutally dismantled.

In 1948, the portrait was restituted to Rosenberg who sold it shortly after.

"This is the first great modern restituted painting to come to auction out of Vienna," Mr. Porter said.

More than half the restituted works have since been sold, and many are now in private hands.

This painting was not restituted but rather hidden by Goudstikker's assistants during the war and presented to his widow when she returned to Amsterdam".

The sale also offers the Schiele gouache "Town on the Blue River," recently restituted to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, a Viennese cabaret artist who died in Dachau.

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.

In 1993, ownership was restituted to the Mullers' daughter, Eva Materna-Muller, who was living in England, and she put it up for sale.

Although the Russian parliament and museum directors have refused to cooperate, private property and artworks in parts of the former eastern bloc have begun to be restituted.

In June 1998, after several highly publicized ownership claims raised suspicions that many American museums might own Nazi-tainted works, members of the Association of Art Museum Directors pledged to search their collections for works taken illegally during the Nazi era and never restituted.

No one knew where it was until last year when someone happened to notice that it was on display in the Moravian Museum in Brno - and they restituted it through the courts.