Antiquesmart Blog Scoops the New York Times

Looted Art Video by RD Langer

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Antiquesmart Blog Scoops the New York Times

Today's New York Times features a story on Nazi looted art, focusing on the refusal of several prominent American museums to fully cooperate with the growing number of claimant-heirs who are seeking restitution for Jewish-owned art stolen by the Nazis during the Third Reich.

R.D. Langer addressed this controversy over three months ago in his Looted Art online video. Stay tuned to our Antiquesmart Blog for the latest developments on this topic.

This Gustav Kilmt painting, entitled "Adele Bloch-Bauer I", was confiscated by the Nazis in 1938. In 2006, following a long legal battle with the Austrian government, the painting was finally returned to Maria Altman of Los Angeles, the original owner's niece. Other families have not been so fortunate.

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