Following the recent departure of two of its members, the Restitutions Committee (RC) is taking all possible steps in order […]

State Secretary for Culture and Media Gunay Uslu announced today in a press release that Dick Oostinga will become vice-chair […]

The Restitutions Committee’s advice to the State Secretary for Culture and Media and its binding opinions concerning Amsterdam City Council and The Hague City Council are to the effect that a total of six artworks should be restituted to the beneficiaries of Emma Budge (1852-1937). On the basis of the investigation by the Expert Centre Restitution (ECR), among other things, the Restitutions Committee concludes that it is highly plausible that the artworks were the property of the German-Jewish Emma Budge and that it is sufficiently plausible that her beneficiaries involuntarily lost possession of them after her death.

The Restitutions Committee rules that the painting Blick auf Murnau mit Kirche by the artist Wassily Kandinsky is to be restituted by Eindhoven City Council to the heirs of Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann (1874-1944). The Restitutions Committee concluded on the basis of new facts that it is sufficiently plausible that Margarethe Stern-Lippman lost possession involuntarily during the Nazi regime.

The Restitutions Committee has advised the State Secretary for Culture and Media to grant the application for restitution of the drawing The Marriage of Tobias and Sara by Pieter Coecke van Aelst.

Change and renewal dominated 2021 for the Restitutions Committee. The report issued by the Nazi Looted Art Restitution Policy Evaluation […]

The Restitutions Committee is recommending restitution of two paintings by the artist A. von Stadler to Isay’s Jewish heirs on the grounds of new facts.

Jacob Kohnstamm has been appointed Chair of the Advisory Committee on the Assessment of Restitution Applications for Items of Cultural […]

On 7 December 2020 the Committee for the Evaluation of the Restitution Policy for Cultural Heritage Objects from the Second World War, the Kohnstamm Committee, advocated in its report Striving for Justice a recalibration and intensification of the restitution policy by, among other things, changing the assessment framework.

The Restitutions Committee has advised the Minister of Education, Culture and Science to grant the application for restitution of the painting The Marriage Feast at Cana by J.G. Platzer.

In a binding opinion issued on 13 July 2020 the Restitutions Committee decided that Rotterdam City Council should restitute a bronze candelabrum and a bronze situla to the heirs of the Jewish pharmacist Emanuel Vita Israël (1873-1940).

The Restitutions Committee has advised the Minister of Education, Culture and Science to reject the application for restitution of the painting View in the Woods in the Winter by Johann Bernard Klombeck and Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven. The Minister has accepted this advice.