The Nazis didn’t care that Paul Klee wasn’t Jewish
Sketches from the last decade of the lauded artist's life, exhibited for the first time in the US at the Jewish Museum, change how we understand his work
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Fast Forward Ohio auction house halts sale of paintings looted during the Holocaust and billed as ‘unclaimed property’
The Monuments Men and Women Foundation linked the 17th-century works to Adolphe Schloss, a German Jew whose collection was seized by the Nazis
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Fast Forward Britain’s Tate to return Nazi-looted painting to heirs of Jewish art collector
The order comes after a report from Britain’s Spoliation Advisory Panel, which has returned 14 Nazi-looted paintings to date
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Film & TV Hermann Goering’s personal art dealer plundered the world for decades; his victims’ descendants are still seeking justice
PBS’s “Plunderer” details the life and work of Nazi art dealer Bruno Lohse
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Fast Forward Family recovers Monet pastel generations after Nazi looting
An unsuspecting New Orleans couple who bought the artwork in 2019 voluntarily relinquished it after learning of its history
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Judaica seller signs deal with feds to return Nazi-looted 16th-century Bible to Budapest seminary
Hungarian officials last year contacted American authorities about an online listing for a rare book with an asking price of $19,000 and a suspicious resemblance to book that had disappeared after the Nazi invasion of Budapest
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Fast Forward US court rules Madrid museum can keep Pissarro painting looted by the Nazis
The decision is a setback for one of the longest-running Holocaust arts restitution cases in history
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Fast Forward In emotional ceremony, heirs to ‘Cabaret’ inspiration Fritz Grünbaum take back 7 Egon Schiele works stolen by the Nazis
The paintings will be auctioned off, with the proceeds going to support artists in underserved communities
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