The hope, he said, was to advance the return of art.
Mr. Bronstein said, "How can you demand the return of art when you don't know" what is missing?
Over the years the family has made legal claims in Poland, Russia and Germany, seeking the return of art and objects seized during and after World War II.
But until well into the 20th century the post-war return of art treasures tended to flow one way: from losers to winners.Napoleon was among the losers.
Claims for the return of art stolen by the Nazis began to be made in the early 1990s and have since influenced the exercise of due diligence when prewar works of art come up for sale.
Bremen local officials, who had long been lobbying for the return of art they knew to be in Russia, immediately put two and two together and proposed an exchange of the mosaic for the drawings in the ambassador's safe in Moscow.
(Russian law allows return of art taken from families and religious and charitable institutions that were the victims of Nazism; the rest has been declared to be war reparations).
E1 Negotiating Over Antiquities Italian cultural officials negotiating with the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to secure the return of art and artifacts they believe were illegally looted from Italy are offering to replace the disputed objects in the museum's collection with loans of equal or similar value.
KFOR said the process had gone fairly well.Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow's mayor, who is a leading contender for Russia's presidency, said he would back the candidacy of Yevgeny Primakov, a former prime minister, if he were to run too.Russia's Constitutional Court upheld a law blocking the return of art and antiques removed from Germany by the Red Army in the final weeks of the second world war.
A Parade for the Return of Art's Native Son.
The next year, they won 5 games, setting in motion events that led to the return of Art Shell, the Lane Kiffin experiment, and the (ongoing) JaMarcus Russell era.
