The list of restitution claims for art looted by the Nazis or as a result of Nazi persecution is organized by the country in which the paintings were located when the return was requested.
Australia and New Zealand IllustrationArtist and artworksFormer owner / restitution requestResultCornelis Bega Paintings anonymous artistsFederico Gentili die Giuseppe Claim for restitution to Art Gallery of South Australia in AdelaideRestitution in 2000 by compensation.Painting Head of a Man previously attributed to Vincent van GoghRichard Semmel Claim for restitution to The National Gallery of VictoriaNo litigation - return - painting remains in museum on 12-month loanGerard ter BorchPortrait d'une femme avec un éventailOil painting around 1670 Max Emden CollectionClaim for restitution to National Gallery of Victoria, Melbournein processMacchiaioliFive paintingsMid-19th centuryCino Vitta CollectionClaim for restitution to Public Gallery of Art, New Zealand, for five paintings in the 'école de Macchiaioli.After an amicable settlement in April 1999, three paintings remained in the museum and two were placed in an auction. The proceeds of the sale were divided between the museum and the heirs.
Croatia IllustrationArtist and artworksFormer owner / restitution requestResultAndré Derain, Still Life With a Bottle, and Maurice de Vlaminick's Landscape by the Water, which were held by the National Museum of Modern ArtDane Reichsmann request for restitution of art collection seized by the fascist Ustashe regimeIn 2023 three museums restituted artworks to the Reichsmann heirs.
Sweden IllustrationArtist and artworksFormer owner / restitution requestResultEmil Nolde Blumengarten (Utenwarf)Otto Nathan DeutschClaim for restitution to Moderna Museet in StockholmSettlement in 2009 after six year dispute. The Moderna Museet had purchased the Nolde from the Ketterer Galerie in Lugano without provenance.
Austria IllustrationArtist and artworksFormer owner / restitution requestResultMartin van Heemskerck, Two altar wings with pictures of the donorsRichard Neumann
Restitution claim to the city of Krems an der DonauIn 2007 the descendants of Neumann received back two paintings by "Kremser Schmidt" Martin Johann Schmidt, which had come into the possession of the city of Krems an der Donau illegally through the "Aryanization".Houses by the Sea (Häuser am Meer), 1914, by Egon SchieleJenny Steiner, Daisy Hellmann (née Steiner b. in Vienna 22 April 1890 – 5 January 1977)
Claim against Leopold MuseumThe Leopold Museum settled with Jenny Steiner's heirs, including Daisy's daughter, in 2012Rudolf Alt, Bäume (Skizzenbuchblatt), Bleistiftstudie, rücks. Nachlassstempel, 24,7 × 15,3 cm, Inv.-Nr. II/6218Alfred und Valerie Eisler, Vienna
Neue Galerie, Universalmuseum Joanneum, GrazRestituted on 26 January 1953 to the heirs of Valerie EislerGustav Klimt, Damenbildnis (Portrait Ria Munk III), 1917–18 oil on canvas, 180.7 x 89.9 cmAranka Munk Lentos Art Museum in LinzIn 2009 restituted to the rightful heirs of Aranka MunkFour Trees; "Vier Bäume" by Egon Schiele Josef and Alice Morgenstern claim to Österreichische Galerie BelvedereIn 2020 the Austrian Restitution Advisory Board recommended that Four Treesby Schiele be restituted to the Morgenstern heirs.porcelain objectNathan Eidinger
MAK, ViennaIn 2014 the advisory board recommended the restitution of several porcelain objects from the MAK to the heirs to Nathan Eidingergouache by Philippe BergerKäthe and Maximilian Kellner
Albertina Museum, ViennaIn 2014 the advisory board recommended the restitution of a gouache by Philippe Berger from the Albertina to the heirs to Maximilian and Käthe Kellnerdrawing by Adolf MenzelLeopolodine Mannaberg
Albertina Museum, ViennaIn 2014 the advisory board recommended the restitution of the advisory board also recommended the restitution a drawing by Adolf Menzel to the heirs to Leopoldine MannabergAdolph von Menzel's gouache on paper Stehende Rüstungen (1886) ("Standing Suits of Armour")Adele Pächter (murdered at the Theresienstadt concentration camp)
Albertina Museum, ViennaRestituted by the Albertina Museum to the heirs of Hermann and Adele Pächter in 2014Maiwiese by Emil NoldeOtto Siegfried Julius
Lentos Art Museum in Linz Restituted to the rightful heirs of Otto Siegfried Julius in 2015Lesser Ury, Die Näherin, 1883 Oil on canvas, 52 x 42.5 cmFritz Loewenthal
Lentos Art Museum in LinzRestituted to the rightful heirs of Fritz Loewenthal in 1999Anton Romako, Mädchen mit aufgestütztem Arm (the daughter of the artist), ca.1875 Oil on canvas, 72.5 x 61 cm
Anton Romako, Der Zweikampf (Kämpfende Ritter), Oil on canvas, 110 x 82.5 cm
Anton Romako, Lager im Wald (Zigeunerlager), ca. 1879 Oil on canvas, 41 x 32 cm Anton Romako, Mädchen mit Nusskorb (Tochter des Künstlers), ca. 1880 Oil on canvas, 139 x 89.5 cm
Anton Romako, Ungarische Puszta (Strohschober in Bálványos), ca. 1880 Oil on canvas, 26.5 x 21.5 cm
Anton Romako, Bildnis Karl Schwach, 1854 Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 37 cmOskar Reichel, a medical doctor in Vienna, heirs' claim against Lentos Art Museum in LinzIn 2012 restituted to the legal successor of Oskar and Malvine Reichel. The six paintings will continue to be displayed at the LENTOS on permanent loan.Anton RomakoOskar Reichel, a medical doctor in Vienna, heirs' claim against Albertina Museum in ViennaAnton Romako (1832–1889) Lying dog, Watercolour, 23.2 x 32 cm Albertina, Inv. No. 29226Armin Reichmann, Albertina Museum in ViennaIn 2012 the restitution committee recommended that the Albertina Museum restitute Romako's Lying Dog to the Reichmann heirs.Adoration of the Magi by Giovanni di Paolo (1460) and many other paintingsOscar Bondy (d. 1946)99 paintings seized from the Bondy collection by Nazis in 1938 in Vienna are said to have been restituted to his widow Elizabeth Bondy after the war in 1948, however this was only part of the collection. There were intensive negotiations with Austrian authorities, and serious issues with locating objects and obtaining export licences, as well as pressure to "donate". The Austrian advisory board was still studying the fate of the Bondy collection in 2021.Egon Schiele, The Portrait of Wally (1912)Heirs of Lea Bondi Jaray claim against the Leopold MuseumAfter many years of litigation, in 2010, the Leopold Museum agreed to pay a settlement of $19 million to Bondi's heirs Elisabeth BondyElizabeth Bondy, recommendation issued by Austrian advisory board on 27 Oct. 1999
Belgium IllustrationArtist and artworksFormer owner / restitution requestResultLouis Corinth Flowers (1913)Gustav and Emma Mayer returned by Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium (KMSKB)Looted by the E.R.R., the artwork was recovered by Leo Van Puyvelde after the defeat of the Nazis and transferred to Belgium's Economic Recovery Department which placed it in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in 1951. It was restituted to the Mayer heirs in February 2022.
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|Franz Marc The Foxes Die Füchse, 1913. |Kurt Grawi (1887–1945) claim to City of Düsseldorf and the Kunstpalast Museum |In 2017, Grawi's family demanded the restitution of Marc's painting The Foxes (1913) from Düsseldorf's Kunstpalast. It was decided to restitute in 2021.
|Peasant Girl Without a Hat by artist Wilhelm Leibl |Alexander Lewin
Bremen Museum |restituted to the heirs in 2009
|Berlin Street Scene by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner |Alfred Hess Bruecke Museum in Berlin and City of Berlin |After initially arguing that financial troubles unrelated to Nazi persecution caused the sale, Berlin restituted the painting to the heirs.
|"Portrait of Felix Benjamin" by Max Liebermann |Felix Benjamin Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal
|In July 2023, the Von der Heydt Museum restituted "Portrait of Felix Benjamin" by Max Liebermann to the heirs of Felix Benjamin
|painting by Wilhelm von Schadow's The Artist’s Children, |Max Stern v Dusseldorf |In 2023 the city of Düsseldorf agreed on a settlement with the heirs of Max Stern.
|drawing 'Felsige Waldlandschaft mit weitem Ausblick''' by Isaak Major |Arthur Feldmann
Kunsthalle Bremen |Looted, then sold twice at Sotheby's London (in 1946, and 1975), sold to the British Rail Pension Fund, then dealer C. G. Boerner in Düsseldorf who sold it to Kunsthalle Bremen. Identified by the research of Arthur Feldmann's grandson Uri Peled Feldmann. Restituted and purchased back in 2016
|Hans von MaréesHusband with a Yellow Hat (Selbstbildnus mit gelbem Hut)|Max Silberberg claim to Berlin National Gallery |The Berlin National Gallery which had acquired Hans von Marées' Husband with a Yellow Hat at the forced Graupe auction of 1935, restituted the painting to the Silberberg heir in July 1999 and then bought it back the same year.
|Portrait of Max John, painting by Otto Dix (1920) |Fritz Glaser claim to Museum of Modern Art (Freiburg im Breisgau) |Negotiations with the heirs of Fritz Salo Glaser resulted in an accord with the museum.
|eight paintings by Max Beckmann, Juan Gris, and Paul Klee |Alfred Flechtheim claim to Bavarian State Paintings Collections (Pinakothek) |2016: lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in New York by Michael Hulton of San Francisco and the widow of Flechtheim's nephew and heir Henry Hulton
|Tilla Durieux by Oskar Kokoschka and others |Alfred Flechtheim claim to Ludwig Museum |In 2013, the city of Cologne agreed to return from the Ludwig Museum Kokoshka's portrait of Tilla Durieux and other drawings to the Fleichtheim heirs. The family agreed to let the museum keep drawings by Karl Hofer, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Ernst Barlach, Aristide Maillol and Wilhelm Morgner on display in the museum.
|Windmill (Marschlandschaft mit rotem Windrad) by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff |Max Rüdenberg claim to Sprengel Museum |In 2017 the Sprengel Museum restituted the artwork to the heirs of the Holocaust victim Max Rüdenberg
|"Lighthouse With Rotating Beam" by Paul Adolf Seehaus |Alfred Flechtheim claim to Kuntsmuseum Bonn |2012 settlement with the Kuntsmuseum Bonn concerning "Lighthouse With Rotating Beam" by Paul Adolf Seehaus
|Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, ‘Preparing the Celebration of the Wine Harvest’ |Irma and Oscar Lowenstein
Germany loaned the looted paintings to German museums |Seized for Führermuseum, then loaned to German museums, to be restituted in 2021 to the London-based Vision Foundation
|Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, ‘The Good Natured-Child (The Beggar)’ |Irma and Oscar Lowenstein Germany loaned the looted paintings to German museums |Seized for Führermuseum, then loaned to German museums, to be restituted in 2021 to the Lowenstein heirs, the London-based Vision Foundation
|Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller ‘The Grandparents’ Visit’ |Irma and Oscar Lowenstein
Germany loaned the looted paintings to German museums |Seized for Führermuseum, then loaned to German museums, to be restituted in 2021 to the London-based Vision Foundation
|triptych by Count Leopold von Kalckreuth |Marietta Glanville
Neue Pinakothek in Munich, Bavarian State Paintings Collection, |restituted in March 2000
|Marchesa Imperiale mit Tochter (Marchesa Imperiale with her daughter) by Rubens |Jacob and Rosa Oppenheimer Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (State Gallery Stuttgart) |Research revealed out-of-court financial settlement in 1954. The 2000 claim was withdrawn.
|Egon Schiele, Kauernder weiblicher Akt (Crouching Female Nude), 1917. |Heinrich Rieger claim to Ludwig Museum in Cologne |restituted to heirs following Germany Advisory Commission unanimous recommendation
|Lucien AdrionLa Processionoil painting, 1927 |Ismar LittmannRestitution request to Fondation Ernst Strassmann. |Restituted to the heirs on 17 June 2003.
|Pablo PicassoMadame Soler|Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartoldy