THE ARCHIVE BY COUNTRY
Published reports from our archive, newest first.
A country may refer to the theft, recovery, return or legal proceedings. A case can be linked to more than one country.
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The Dutch government handed the painting back to Max Stern’s estate in Rijswijk. It had passed through the Hamburg Kunsthalle before Allied recovery and later went on display at the Noordbrabants Museum.
Winter Landscape, attributed to Jan van de Velde II, SK-A-3241 · Rijksmuseum / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 1.0 Image source ↗
The committee traced Jan van de Velde II’s Winter Landscape to the 1933 sale of Curt Glaser’s collection in Berlin and recommended restitution to his heirs.
Case diagram by ArtTraceX · Joseph Stodel collection · Adrianus Eversen · NK 1762. Image source ↗
The committee recommended returning Adrianus Eversen’s View in a Dutch Town, NK 1762, to Joseph Stodel’s heirs.
Wouter Verschuur II, Horses by a Stable, NK 2569 · RCE / Wikimedia Commons · PDM 1.0 Image source ↗
The committee recommended returning Horses by a Stable, a watercolour by Wouter Verschuur II, NK 2569, to the heirs of Eduard Hollander.
Portrait of a Woman, NK 2894, one of the two Florentine portraits · RCE / Wikimedia Commons Image source ↗
The committee recommended returning two late fifteenth-century Florentine portraits, NK 2894 and NK 2895, to the heirs of Leo Nardus.
Anna Rosina von Lisiewska, Woman Playing a Lute, NK 1931 · RCE / Wikimedia Commons Image source ↗
The committee recommended returning Anna Rosina von Lisiewska’s Woman Playing a Lute, NK 1931, to the heirs of Sigmund Wassermann.
Case diagram by ArtTraceX · George Eduard Behrens collection · Corot · Female Figure at a Well. Image source ↗
The committee examined the loss of Corot’s painting after the persecution and detention of George Eduard Behrens. It recommended restitution to his heirs.
Police recovered a severely damaged bronze cast of The Thinker, one of seven sculptures taken from the Singer Laren sculpture garden. Context image from the University of Amsterdam’s research on the restoration and Rodin’s casts.
Jan van Goyen, View of the Oude Maas near Dordrecht, from the restituted Goudstikker collection. The Jewish Museum. Image source ↗
The Dutch government announced a decision to return 202 artworks to Jacques Goudstikker’s heirs after reviewing the collection’s loss during the Nazi era. This February 2006 report records the restitution decision, not completion of the physical handover that day.
The Kröller-Müller Museum after the theft. Rob C. Croes / Anefo / Nationaal Archief, CC0. Image source ↗
The paintings taken in December 1988 included the Otterlo version of The Potato Eaters, Dried Sunflowers and Weaver’s Interior. All three were recovered in 1989.
The Stedelijk Museum after the theft. Rob C. Croes / Anefo / Nationaal Archief, CC0. Image source ↗
Three paintings taken from Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum in May 1988 were recovered later that month. The archival photograph documents the aftermath of the theft.
