Holocaust artwork News

Museum to Sell Painting in Settlement With Heirs of Jewish Family That Fled the Nazis

A Pennsylvania museum has agreed to sell a 16th century portrait that once belonged to a Jewish family that was forced to part with it while fleeing Nazi Germany before World War II. The Allentown Art Museum will auction “Portrait …

Law Enforcement Seizes Museums’ Artworks Believed Stolen During Holocaust

Three artworks believed stolen during the Holocaust from a Jewish art collector and entertainer have been seized from museums in three different states by New York law enforcement authorities. The artworks by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele were all previously owned …