Restitution

After years of legal dispute, Amsterdam city officials announced that they will be restituting a Wassily Kandinsky painting to the heirs of its original owner. The painting in question, Painting With Houses, was finished by Kandinsky in…

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…

Two 19th objects were removed from an auction in the UK after the Ethiopian embassy objected to the sale of the ‘looted’ objects. According to a report by the British daily The Guardian, the Ethiopian embassy wrote a letter to Busby –…

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…