Restitutions Committee’s Advice: Return Artworks to Jewish Heirs
News30 December 2021
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.
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30 December 2021
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.
4 October 2021
Jacob Kohnstamm has been appointed Chair of the Advisory Committee on the Assessment of Restitution Applications for Items of Cultural […]
21 April 2021
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.
21 December 2020
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.
27 July 2020
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).
2 June 2020
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.
6 January 2020
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.
23 December 2019
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.
28 November 2019
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.
28 May 2019
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.
24 May 2019
THE HAGUE, 24 May 2019 – The Restitutions Committee has advised the Minister of Education, Culture and Science to restitute […]
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.
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