Gustav Klimt

LOS ANGELES – Maria Altmann, who escaped Nazioccupied Vienna as a newlywed and returned to wage a triumphant fight to recover Gustav Klimt’s iconic…

A website providing information on over 20,000 works of art stolen by the Nazis from their Jewish owners during the 1930s and 1940s was launched…

The Palestinians want peace as much as Israel and if anyone can accomplish a peace agreement, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is the one to do it,…

On the West Side of Manhattan, in a gray-walled waiting room of the Department of Homeland Security, a photograph reminds visitors of the calamity,…

Nazi-looted Klimt auctionedA Nazi-looted painting by Gustav Klimt was auctioned in London for $45.5 million. The 1913 landscape Church in…

There is a saying in Hebrew which, somewhat paraphrased, runs something along the lines of: If she didn't exist, someone would have to invent her.…

In 1950, Japanese director Akira Kurosawa released Rashomon, a samurai picture that was perhaps one of the first in cinema history to visually…

Justice, justice shall you pursue- Deuteronomy 16:20We're living in a world gone mad, a world where Bernie Madoff can squander the lifelong savings…

Holocaust survivors, Jewish groups and experts gathered in Prague Friday to assess efforts to return property and possessions stolen by the Nazis to…

Reinhard Heydrich's name is certain to come up tomorrow at the State Department when the US Office for Holocaust Issues hosts a session to review…

Zichron Ya'acov rules. I've loved this magical place since I was a child. I love the enchanting scenery of its environs, the mountains, the valley…

An Austrian museum may soon lose a Gustav Klimt painting worth at least $10 million that the heirs of a Holocaust victim say was looted from her…

1998 was the Year of Nazi-Looted Art. From beginning to end, the art world was frantic about claims from Nazi victims. January 1998 saw Robert…

Over the last decade, there have been a handful of high-profile cases which provide textbook examples of the complexities, emotions and uncertainty…

A painting held by a German baroness rightfully belongs to the estate of a late Jewish art dealer who was forced by Nazi authorities to auction it…

As you enter the new exhibition at Ticho House a piece of video art greets you. It's of a young girl, unnervingly still, turning in place as if on an…

RONALD LAUDER'S Neue Galerie occupies a lovely old house on East 86th Street at Fifth Avenue, built in 1914. It is devoted to shows of German and…

The Nazi regime was not only the world's greatest murderer, but the biggest thief as well. High on the list of loot were Europe's master paintings…

Tiroche of Herzliya are again having a two-part sale of 776 lots of mostly Israeli art on June 16 and 23. The top lot is a dramatic bowl of mimosas…

'It's never quiet here," Israelis are fond of saying to describe their country. Some say it with a sense of exasperation; some take strange pride in…