Rotterdam, Netherlands
Rotterdam restitution opinion covers Liebermann’s Girl Writing at a Table
The Dutch committee advised Rotterdam to return Max Liebermann’s drawing held by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Image: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
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Henri Matisse, Odalisque (1920–21), A795 · Stedelijk Museum / Wikimedia Commons · PDM 1.0 Image source ↗
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam agrees to return Matisse’s Odalisque to the Stern heirs
Amsterdam agreed to return Matisse’s Odalisque, A795, to the Stern heirs after a binding opinion found that the 1941 sale to the Stedelijk took place under persecution.
Case diagram by ArtTraceX · Mogrobi collection · Twelve works · Frankfurt and Lübeck. Image source ↗
Netherlands
Return advised for twelve works from the Mogrobi collection
The Dutch committee recommended returning twelve works to the heirs of Mozes Mogrobi and Zilia Mogrobi-Jacobi. Researchers traced wartime sales to museums in Frankfurt and Lübeck.
Case diagram by ArtTraceX · Van Praag claim · Fighting Card Players · NK 3533. Image source ↗
Netherlands
Return advised for Fighting Card Players to the Van Praag heirs
The committee linked the October 1941 sale of the anonymous painting NK 3533 to persecution and recommended restitution to the Van Praag heirs.
Rediscovered Rembrandt portraits presented after Rijksmuseum research — artwork or case documentation from the linked image source. Image source ↗
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rediscovered Rembrandt portraits presented after Rijksmuseum research
Technical and archival research supported attribution of two small 1635 portraits to Rembrandt and identification of Jan and Jaapgen van der Pluym. The museum announced their long-term loan and display; this is not a theft case.
Medemblik, Netherlands
Six paintings stolen from Medemblik town hall delivered to Arthur Brand
Six historic paintings stolen from Medemblik's former town hall were delivered to art investigator Arthur Brand, NOS reported. The recovered group included portraits of William of Orange and the Frisian king Radbod. Their combined value was estimated at about €100,000. This report records the recovery of the paintings, rather than the later recovery of other objects taken in the same burglary.
The Hague, Netherlands
Return advised for Moeyaert painting from the Hamburger collection
The Dutch committee recommended returning Nicolaes Moeyaert’s God Appearing to Abraham at Sichem from the Netherlands Art Property Collection in the Herman Hamburger case. Image: Museum Catharijneconvent.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Rotterdam restitution opinion covers an ivory Virgin and Child
The Dutch committee advised Rotterdam to return the anonymous Hodegetria relief held by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in the Kunsthaus Drey case.
The Hague, Netherlands
Return advised for Bakker Korff’s The Aunts Go on a Journey
The Dutch committee recommended that Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff’s watercolour be returned to the heirs of Jacob Lierens. Image: Rijksmuseum Twenthe.
Laren, Netherlands
Stolen Singer Laren Van Gogh recovered
The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring was recovered through Arthur Brand more than three years after its March 2020 theft. The Groninger Museum confirmed its return.
Leiden, Netherlands
Netherlands transfers the Lombok treasure and Singasari statues to Indonesia
The Netherlands signed over 472 cultural objects to Indonesia in Leiden, including the Lombok treasure, four sculptures from Singasari, the kris of Klungkung and paintings from the Pita Maha collection. The four thirteenth-century statues were photographed at the National Museum in Jakarta the following month.
Maastricht, Netherlands
Binding opinion records settlement over Jacques d’Arthois landscape
The Dutch committee recorded a settlement and ruled that the Museum aan het Vrijthof Foundation should return Landscape with a Waterfall to the applicants.
The Hague, Netherlands
Hague opinion backs return of a goblet holder and dish from the Budge collection
The Dutch committee ruled that The Hague should return an Andries Grill goblet holder and an unattributed ceramic dish from the Kunstmuseum Den Haag to the estate’s beneficiaries.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Return advised for Rijksmuseum’s pair of Johannes Lutma salts
The Dutch committee recommended returning two partly gilded salt cellars made by Johannes Lutma from the Rijksmuseum to the beneficiaries of Emma Budge’s estate.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Pieter Coecke van Aelst drawing returned to Feldmann heirs
The Dutch committee recommended returning The Marriage of Tobias and Sara (RP-T-1964-44). The Rijksmuseum later confirmed restitution to Arthur Feldmann’s heirs and said it acquired the drawing from them. Image: Rijksmuseum.
Wassily Kandinsky, Bild mit Häusern, 1909 — public-domain reproduction via Wikimedia Commons. Image source ↗
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kandinsky painting returned to heirs after Amsterdam settlement
Amsterdam returned Wassily Kandinsky’s Bild mit Häusern (1909) to the Lewenstein family’s heirs on 28 February 2022. After a prolonged dispute and earlier decisions against restitution, the parties agreed a settlement in light of revised restitution guidelines. This was an agreed return, not a new judgment reversing the 2020 ruling.
The Hague, Netherlands
Competing claims to two landscapes resolved in favour of the Isay heirs
The Dutch committee advised returning NK 3277 and NK 3278 to Alfred Isay’s heirs. It found that Isay, rather than the earlier owner Abraham Adelsberger, most likely owned the paintings when they were lost in 1941. Image: Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE).
Two Laughing Boys by Frans Hals, one of the two paintings in the conviction. Image source ↗
Lelystad, Netherlands
Eight-year sentence for the Van Gogh and Frans Hals thefts
The Midden-Nederland District Court sentenced a 59-year-old man from Baarn to eight years in prison for stealing a Van Gogh from Singer Laren in March 2020 and Frans Hals’s Two Laughing Boys from Leerdam in August 2020, alongside other offences. This was a first-instance judgment; both paintings remained missing at that date.
Wassily Kandinsky, Bild mit Häusern, 1909 — public-domain reproduction via Wikimedia Commons. Image source ↗
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Court rejects Kandinsky restitution challenge in 2020
On 16 December 2020, Amsterdam’s court rejected the Lewenstein heirs’ civil challenge to the binding restitution opinion on Wassily Kandinsky’s Bild mit Häusern. The court found no sufficiently serious defects to annul that opinion. This records the procedural stage on the source date; a separate entry covers the agreed restitution in 2022.
The Hague, Netherlands
Dutch committee backs return of Platzer’s Marriage Feast at Cana
The recommendation concerns Johann Georg Platzer’s painting NK 2216 and the heirs of Alfred and Fanny Mautner. Image: Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE).
Leerdam, Netherlands
Frans Hals’s Two Laughing Boys stolen again
The painting was stolen from the Hofje van Mevrouw van Aerden museum in August 2020. This card records the theft as reported at publication.