Germany

The Mexican government is attempting to stop the auction of more than 70 artifacts from the pre-Columbian era by the Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger art dealership in Germany. The issue first came to light on September 13 when it was revealed…

A Dutch man is facing charges for the 2019 theft of Roman coins from a German museum. In November 2019, a group of men broke into the Rhineland State Museum, one of the largest archaeological museums in Germany. According to the police…

The Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, Germany announced that it has returned the shirt belonging to a Lakota tribe chief to his descendants. The shirt was returned to Duan Hollow Horn Bear last month, who is the current chief of the…

Düsseldorf, a German city, announced to return a Franz Marc painting in April. But the decision has come to a halt amid controversies. In April, a commission formed to decide the fate of a Franz Marc painting announced their decision. It…

Prominent German socialite Angela Gulbenkian was convicted of fraud and theft regarding a Kusama sculpture, last week in a London court. According to a report by Publico, Gulbenkian was charged with stealing around $1.4 million from art…

The German state of Bavaria has announced the restitution of a 19th century Wopfner painting, looted by Nazis, to its rightful heirs. The decision was made by the Bavarian State Painting Collections, one of the richest art collections in…

The heirs of a prominent art collector couple have filed a lawsuit for the return of a Pissarro painting, looted by the Nazis. According to the New York Times, the lawsuit was filed in the Federal District Court of Atlanta. The lawsuit…

Noted concept artist Maria Eichhorn will represent Garmany at the 2022 Venice Biennale in Italy. The Berlin-based artist is renowned in Europe for her conceptual artworks that are themed on the intersection of money, politics, and art.…

The artist collective known as Frankfurter Hauptschule has claimed responsibility for stealing a Joseph Beuys work from Germany and taking it to Tanzania. According to a news report published by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the…

A small drama unfolded at the Chemnitz Art Collections in Germany over a politically-charged artwork. A work by Peng! Collective was removed by the German museum on Friday for making explicit statements about the Antifa. The…