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Germany and Austria, mindful of their post-war obligations to Jewish families, have traditionally supported efforts to restore paintings allegedly looted by the Nazis to their original and rightful owners. But the stratospheric prices fetched by some of those paintings in recent weeks - and the resultant fees collected by auction...
The works in question include four paintings by the Viennese master Gustav Klimt, and a famous Berlin street scene by the German expressionist Ernest Ludwig Kirchner sold earlier this month for nearly $50 million. So-called "restituted" art - pieces either directly looted by Nazis, or ones their owners were forced...
Ludwig von Pufendorf, director of the Bruecke Museum Foundation in Berlin, was blunt. Kirchner's "Berlin Street Scene" had been the centerpiece of his museum's collection for 26 years; now a poster of the painting hangs in its place. Following a claim initiated by a U.S. lawyer and a...
Have you ever had a great idea that was too wild or far-fetched to become reality? So have the students in Engineering Sciences 147: “Idea Translation: Effecting Change Through the Arts and Sciences,” but they aren’t stopping at the drawing...
This Saturday, the Crimson faithful might not have to choose between the tailgate and The Game.And no, it’s not because the tailgate will not allow outside alcohol and will charge a dollar per beverage within its gates.Instead, there is a possibility—quite an intriguing one...