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.

The Restitutions Committee has advised Minister of Education, Culture and Science to restitute fourteen items from a Meissen service to the heirs of the original German owner Herbert Gutmann.

The Restitutions Committee has advised the Minister of Education, Culture and Science to restitute 107 groups of Meissen porcelain items to the heirs of the original German owner Franz Oppenheimer.

The Restitutions Committee has issued a binding opinion about the application for restitution of the painting Mountainous Landscape by Jacob van Geel, currently in the possession of Rotterdam City Council.

In a binding opinion issued on 16 April 2019 the Restitutions Committee decided that Amsterdam City Archives should restitute the drawing Jewish Quarter in Amsterdam by Max Liebermann to the heirs of the original owners.

THE HAGUE, 24 May 2019 – The Restitutions Committee has advised the Minister of Education, Culture and Science to restitute […]

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.