Forgery, Falsification & Theft of Artworks

Torn Modernism illuminates an important moment in the history of the Kunstmuseum Basel's collection. In 1937 the Nazi cultural policy denounced tho...

In 1998, France was one of the 44 signatory states of the Washington Declaration. This study examines to what extent the Republic has fulfilled its...

In der Schweiz hat sich seit der Unterzeichnung der Washingtoner Erklärung von 1998 mangels einheitlicher Standards eine im Kern amorphe und kontur...

Exquisite... intelligent, illuminating, mischievous delightful The TimesThe acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us...

Through much of its history, Italy was Europes heart of the arts, an artistic playground for foreign elites and powers who bought, sold, and someti...

'Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it m...

Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation, in both the Third Reich and occupied territories. After the war, the...

In The Optickal Illusion, Rachel Halliburtons meticulous recreation of Georgian society reveals the sordid details of a genuine scandal that deceiv...

In May 2016, Jon S. Dellandrea came into possession of a box of the last effects of an obscure artist, William Firth MacGregor. The contents of the...

Im Jahr 1998 unterzeichnen 42 Staaten die Washingtoner Prinzipien. Es werden gerechte und faire Lösungen gefordert und dazu die Schaffung innerstaa...

The worlds most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the Mastersexposing an art world that is far more corru...

'Taking without taste, without choice, is ignorance and near vandalism. The French Directory to Napoleon Bonaparte, 1796 Napoleons Plunder chron...

What should be done about cultural property confiscated in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR? This legal appraisal commissioned by the Deutsch...