(Germany) German Lost Art Foundation and Mosse Art Research Institute Traced Nazi-Looted Art and Launched Online Database

[Jan Meisels Allen janmeiselsallen@gmail.com]

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Last year I posted about the German Lost Art Foundation which is a project of
the German government which began subsidizing private collectors attempts to
return Nazi looted art to the families of the original owners. The government
funding this at 3.4 million Euros, about $4 million USD. The fund helps the
current generation of owners find out how the art objects came into their
family. Under German law the descendants of the original Jewish owners must
rely on the good will of the private collectors. Museums, however are bound
by international principles which require them to reach "just and fair
solutions." There are also statute of limitations that some current holders
of stolen art rely upon to prevent return of the stolen Nazi-era artworks.

Rudolf Mosse was one of the richest men in Berlin at the end of the 19th
century and thousands of paintings, books, sculptures and antiques were
seized from him. The Mosse Art Research Initiative announced last year that
heirs and the Lost Art Foundation funded 500,000 Euros to help trace the
Nazi-looted art and return it to the rightful heirs. This is the first
cooperative research project between the heirs of a Jewish collector looted
by the Nazis and the German government.

Thus far, they have traced eight works - one at Vienna's Belvedere Palace
Museum, another at the Tel Aviv (Israel) Museum and Arkell Museum in
Canahohaire, New York, and Gdansk Polish Museum - the later which has not
yet been recovered. The Belvedere Palace Museum also housed the famous
Klimt painting, of the story of the Woman in Gold fame (Portrait of Adele
Bloch-Bauer I). Berlin's State Museums have restituted nine works in their
collections looted from Mosse. Much of the looted art is also in private
collections.

To read more about the family and the art see:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/german-researchers-trace-jewish-newspaper-mogul-s-vast-art-collection
[MOD. NOTE: shortened URL - https://goo.gl/kryW73 ]

The Mosse Art Research Initiative (MARI) database may be accessed at:
https://www.mari-portal.de/db . It is in German and English.

The German Lost Art Database may be accessed at:
http://www.lostart.de/Webs/EN/LostArt/Index.html This website is in English,
German and Russian.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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