Rotterdam, Netherlands
Rotterdam restitution opinion covers a bronze situla and candelabrum
The Dutch Restitutions Committee advised Rotterdam to return the two antiquities, recorded as KA 118 and KB 78, in a binding opinion.
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Van Gogh’s stolen 1884 painting, reproduced in the police appeal. Image source ↗
Laren, Netherlands
Van Gogh painting stolen from Singer Laren
Vincent van Gogh’s Lentetuin, de pastorietuin te Nuenen in het voorjaar (1884) was stolen from Singer Laren at about 03:15 on 30 March 2020. The painting was on loan from the Groninger Museum. A televised police appeal described forced entry through glass doors. This is the theft-stage report; a later recovery is documented separately.
Johann Bernard Klombeck and Eugène Verboeckhoven, View in the Woods in the Winter, B59. RCE / Wikimedia Commons · PDM 1.0. Image source ↗
Netherlands
Dutch panel advises against returning View in the Woods in the Winter
The committee found no evidence that the winter landscape by Klombeck and Verboeckhoven belonged to Marcel Wolf. It recommended rejecting the claim.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia / Rotterdam, Netherlands
Missing Ethiopian ceremonial crown handed back in Addis Ababa
The Netherlands handed an eighteenth-century Ethiopian ceremonial crown to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on 20 February. Missing since 1993, the gilded copper crown, decorated with Christian figures, had resurfaced in Rotterdam in 2019. The photograph shows the handover.
Amsterdam, Netherlands / Oslo, Norway
Van Gogh Museum confirms authorship of the Oslo self-portrait
After more than five years of research, the Van Gogh Museum confirmed the authenticity of an 1889 self-portrait from Norway’s National Museum that had long been questioned. The researchers considered the canvas, pigments, technique and provenance. The portrait went on temporary display in Amsterdam.
Stolen fifteenth-century Divan of Hafez manuscript recovered — artwork or case documentation from the linked image source. Image source ↗
Munich, Germany; Netherlands
Stolen fifteenth-century Divan of Hafez manuscript recovered
Arthur Brand reported recovering a fifteenth-century manuscript missing from the Ghazy collection. The report concerns a particular historic copy of Hafez’s poetry, not the recovery of all items missing from the collection.
The Hague, Netherlands
Return advised for 107 groups of objects from Franz Oppenheimer’s collection
The Dutch committee advised restitution to Franz Oppenheimer’s heirs. The official report appends an inventory of the object groups covered by the recommendation.
The Hague, Netherlands
Return advised for fourteen Meissen porcelain objects
The Dutch committee recommended returning the fourteen objects claimed by the heirs of Herbert Gutmann.
Both recovered Van Gogh paintings in the conservation studio, April 2019 — Martin Bailey / The Art Newspaper. Image source ↗
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Two stolen Vincent van Gogh paintings return to display after conservation
Vincent van Gogh’s View of the Sea at Scheveningen and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen returned to display on 17 April 2019. Stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002, they were recovered in Italy in 2016. The 18 April report details conservation, including reconstruction of a damaged corner of the seascape.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam restitution opinion concerns Liebermann’s Jewish Quarter
The Dutch committee issued a binding opinion advising the city of Amsterdam to return Max Liebermann’s drawing Jewish Quarter in Amsterdam to the applicants. Image: Amsterdam City Archives.
Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Sumptuous Still Life, NK 2711, one of the two works returned · RCE / Wikimedia Commons Image source ↗
Netherlands
Two Old Masters returned to the heirs of Jacob Lierens
The committee backed return of a banquet scene by Hals and Van Delen and a still life by De Heem. The heirs’ representative documents that both paintings were returned.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Picasso’s Dora Maar portrait recovered after yacht theft
Buste de Femme, painted in 1938 and stolen from a French Riviera yacht about twenty years earlier, was handed to Arthur Brand in the Netherlands. At publication it was held by an insurer.
Lucas Cranach the Elder, Portrait of John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony — Christie’s. Image source ↗
New York, United States / Netherlands
Lucas Cranach the Elder portrait returned to Fritz Gutmann heirs
Christie’s documents the return of Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Portrait of John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony to Fritz Gutmann’s heirs under an agreed settlement with its holders. Missing for nearly 80 years after Nazi persecution and the dispersal of the family collection, it was returned and auctioned in April 2018. This source was published on 11 December 2018.
Heino, Netherlands
Return advised for a bronze Moses attributed to Alessandro Vittoria
The Dutch committee advised the Hannema-de Stuers Foundation to return the sculpture for the benefit of Emma Budge’s estate.
Case diagram by ArtTraceX · Philippus Endlich pastel · Rijksmuseum · RP-T-1944-247. Image source ↗
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Return advised for a Philippus Endlich pastel in the Rijksmuseum
The committee found it plausible that this pastel, RP-T-1944-247, was surrendered to Liro under occupation regulations in 1943. It recommended returning the drawing to the heirs of its joint owners.
The Hague, Netherlands
Return advised for Van Wittel’s view of Grottaferrata abbey
The Dutch committee advised returning Caspar van Wittel’s drawing of the Italian abbey to the heirs of Michael Berolzheimer. Image: Rijksmuseum.
The Hague, Netherlands
Return advised for Tischbein’s Portrait of an Officer
The Dutch committee advised returning the portrait by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, NK 1715, to the heirs of Count August Krasicki. Image: Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE).
Hoorn, Netherlands and Ukraine
Five Westfries Museum paintings returned from Ukraine
Five of the 24 paintings stolen in 2005 were returned. Other paintings remained missing at the report date.
Netherlands
Dalí and Tamara de Lempicka works stolen in 2009 recovered
Adolescence and La Musicienne were recovered through Arthur Brand’s work after the 2009 armed theft from the Scheringa Museum.
Case diagram by ArtTraceX · Hunting tapestry claim · The dimensions did not match. Image source ↗
Netherlands
Dimensions undermine a Dutch claim for a hunting tapestry
The committee found that the museum tapestry’s dimensions did not match the measurements of the objects reported missing after the war. It recommended rejecting the claim.
Leiden, Netherlands
Gold bracelet and Serapis head at issue in Bachstitz claim
The Dutch committee advised against restitution of the two objects, registered together as NK 865 and held at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden.