The Restitutions Committee

The Advisory Committee on the Assessment of Restitution Applications for Items of Cultural Value and the Second World War (in brief referred to as: the Restitutions Committee) advises on claims to looted art. Works of art which former owners lost possession of because of theft, confiscation or (enforced) sale during the Nazi regime may now be owned by the State of the Netherlands (National Art Collection), a provincial/local government institution, a foundation or a private individual. Since early 2002, a claim to a stolen work of art can be submitted to the Restitutions Committee for investigation and advice as an alternative way of settling a dispute. The Restitutions Committee operates independently from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), and comprises lawyers, a historian and an art historian.

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Last 5 recommendations

Advies Nr
Rosenbaum (B) 1.82-B
Gutmann (IV-A) 1.115-A
Jonas 1.117
Arnhold (A) 1.61-A
Hiegentlich 1.116
NK2828 Portrait of a man with a dog, anonymous (Photo: RCE)
NK2828 Portrait of a man with a dog, anonymous (Photo: RCE)

News & publications

Visit to the Beratende Kommission in Germany

8 March 2012
On 8 March 2012, a delegation of the Restitutions Committee paid a working visit to Berlin at the invitation of the Beratende Kommission im Zusammenhang mit der Rückgabe NS-verfolgungsbedingt entzogener Kulturgüter, insbesondere aus jüdischem Besitz (“Beratende Kommission”). As well as attending the (oral) proceedings in a case that is being handled by the German Committee, the Restitutions Committee met with Mr Bernd Neumann, the German Minister of State and Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

Restitutions Committee issues recommendations concerning four claims to looted art

2 February 2012

THE HAGUE - The Restitutions Committee has advised the State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science on four claims to a total of 23 works of art from the Dutch National Art Collection. The Committee recommends the restitution of five works of art to the former owners’ heirs. The State Secretary has adopted the recommendations.

Restitutions Committee advises on two art claims

17 February 2012

THE HAGUE - The Restitutions Committee is publishing two recommendations it issued in December 2011, in which it advised the State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science to return one work of art to the heirs of S. Rosenberg.  The State Secretary recently (31 January 2012) adopted the recommendations.

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