Else van Sterkenburg has decided to step down from her activities as the Restitutions Committee’s Secretary. We are grateful to her for her valuable contribution to the Committee’s work and the restitution process. She played a key role in achieving more frequent and more personal contact with applicants in order to provide clarity, explanations and understanding.
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News
24 January 2014
The Restitutions Committee has advised Minister of Education, Culture and Science Jet Bussemaker to restitute a painting by Jan van Goyen in the Dutch National Art Collection to the daughter of its Jewish owner.
1 November 2018
The Hague, 1 November 2018 – The Restitutions Committee has issued a binding opinion about the application for restitution of the work Painting with Houses by Wassily Kandinsky, currently in the possession of Amsterdam City Council. The Committee takes the view that the city council is not obliged to restitute the work.
20 December 2017
The Restitutions Committee has advised the Minister of Education, Culture and Science to restitute three paintings from the Dutch National Art Collection to the heirs of the original Jewish owner Joseph Henri Gosschalk.
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