Richard Semmel, a Jewish textiles entrepreneur in Berlin, was forced to sell the painting after fleeing Nazi persecution in 1933

The painting depicting the prodigal son was sold by Eduard Fuchs, a Communist writer, after his escape into exile in 1933

Exhibition of 2,500 repatriated objects, including the "Lombok treasure", inaugurates the newly refurbished space

A New York-based organisation had sought to block the artefacts’ return to Nigeria

A bone and lock of hair apparently belonging to Piet Hein have been in storage at the Dutch museum for centuries—now there are calls to have them returned to his grave

Missing for more than 80 years, the 1865 pastel will be handed over in a ceremony today after the couple who bought it relinquished it voluntarily

If governments are committed to the Washington Principles, they should create a co-ordinating body

Withdrawn from auction in February, the shield will make a stop at the Toledo Museum of Art before going on public display at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa

The repatriations show policy continuity despite the new right-wing government, experts say

The new law signed by Governor Gavin Newsom is intended to resolve a decades-long restitution claim in a California family’s favour

The restitutions are seen as reflective of the way museums are paying closer attention to the provenance of works in their collections

"Over Vitebsk" by Marc Chagall hung at the Museum of Modern Art for decades until 2020, when it was restituted to the the heirs of a Jewish-owned art gallery in 1930s Berlin

The portrait of the Duke of Saxony, attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop, will be auctioned by Christie’s in New York in January 2025

The Kurdish artist delves into the histories of looted artefacts and questions the ethics of their existence in Western museums

‘If an artwork is located in the US, its fate cannot be decided in any other state, and any wrong decisions cannot be corrected elsewhere’

The 1918 drawing had been in the possession of another Austrian Jewish family, which recently became suspicious of the work's provenance and contacted Grünbaum’s heirs directly in order to “do the right thing”

The former antiquities minister is also demanding that three Egyptian treasures, including the Rosetta Stone, be sent to his home country

The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art has defended its decision to hand back two objects to the Oba rather than the government

Objects from the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum are on loan to the Asante king, while the Fowler Museum has transferred ownership of seven items

Complexities of restitution, the relevance of the universal museum and burgeoning collections were all on the event's agenda

The work, to be auctioned at Sotheby’s today, was one of more than 2,500 held as collateral and sold, shortly before the Nazi invasion, by the Dutch bank Lisser & Rosenkranz

The report by Raphael Gross calls for more research and details how Jewish owners are omitted from the published provenance

Albert Stern, the former owner, sold the painting “out of necessity” in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, the Dutch Restitutions Committee says

The oil sketch “Saint Gregory of Nazianzus” (1621) is one of five works by the Old Master that were unlawfully taken from the Friedenstein Foundation, with two still missing

Karl and Rosi Adler’s heirs had claimed that “La repasseuse” (1904) had been sold under duress as the couple fled Nazi persecution

The collector and textiles entrepreneur Carl Sachs sold the painting after fleeing to Switzerland from Nazi Germany in 1939

The Krishna palister once stood along the doorframe of the most important monument to the Khmer dynasty in Thailand

Last spring Pope Francis said “this is going on, with Canada”, but since there has been little movement on repatriation

Paintings by Courbet, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and Gauguin are to be removed from display at Zurich’s Kunsthaus

As a “thank you” gesture, Italy is reciprocating with loans from Paestum and Naples