Holocaust Art Restitution Project

05/21/2026

As in the past nine years, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA)–Holocaust Art Restitution Project (HARP) partnership is offering a special Conference+Provenance Research Course bundle from 19-26 June 2026 in Amelia (Umbria).

First, you will listen to experts from around the world debate and present during ARCA’s two-day International Amelia Art Crime Conference. Then, you will join an interdisciplinary group of professionals for a weeklong interactive workshop-style course which will bring you behind the scenes of the growing provenance research field and art restitution processes.

Can AI do provenance research? What does it take to be a provenance researcher? How much research is too much research? How complicated is it to restitute a looted object? Come to Amelia for the answers and sign up for the conference+course bundle from 19-26 June 2026!
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04/18/2026

This summer, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) is proud to announce its annual conference on art crime, cultural heritage and provenance research slated for June 19-21, 2026 in Amelia, Italy. ARCA is also offering a package bundling the conference with a weeklong workshop on provenance research following the conference.
Read all about it! We look forward to seeing you in sunny Amelia and sharing quality moments with you.

The Amelia Conference June 19-21 + Provenance Research, Theory and Practice course in Amelia, Italy this summer. Acknowledging the formidable challenge of searching for and reclaiming looted cultural assets, and understanding that the path to repatriation and restitution requires practical knowledge...

11/10/2025

A painting bought in 1944 by Hildebrand Gurlitt in Paris then shipped to Munich for incorporation into Hitler's Linz museum project, was then stolen in April 1945 from its storage place at the Munich Führerbau and ended up in Rodeo, California. American investigators found it and recovered it in 1949.

Hildebrand Gurlitt "Landscape" by J. B. Huet by Marc Masurovsky During the German occupation of France, Hildebrand Gurlitt (1895-1956) was o...

11/08/2025

A Titian painting belonging to a Czech citizen and stored in a Paris bank vault disappeared in December 1940 following a visit to that bank by Hitler's favorite art dealer, Maria Almas-Dietrich. It ended up at Berchtesgaden where US troops found it in 1945. For three years, the French demanded its repatriation claiming it as part of their cultural heritage while the Czechs said it had been sold without the consent of the owner. All of this with the Cold War heating up in the background. You can guess how this story ends.

Portrait of Alfonso II d'Este and his secretary, by Titian by Marc Masurovsky Josef Skvor was a Czech businessman born on 8 April 1888 in C...

11/05/2025

How banal can plunder be? Here is a typical example during the final Allied campaign against Germany in March-April 1945.

by Marc Masurovsky Map of Dillingen an der Donau The final Allied military push against N**i Germany unfolded in March 1945 when American tr...

11/01/2025

Rose Valland mania.

by Marc Masurovsky Many books have been published about Rose Valland, the unsung French heroine of WWII in her quest to recover and protect ...

06/24/2025

In 1961, Rose Valland recounted her tribulations at the Jeu de Paume in Paris during WWII and as a restitution officer for the French government after 1945. She highlighted her role in defending the integrity of French museums, their collections and her conception of French cultural heritage. One might wonder: as a French curator and art historian, did she have an equal opportunity approach in her campaign to protect and defend “French collections”? how did she define “French collections”? Did she include collections of works by lesser known Jewish artists working in France who were not members of the pantheon of artists adulated by wealthy Jewish collectors who were also patrons of French state museum collections and frequent donors thereto? Most of these lesser-known artists perished in the Final Solution.

Le front de l'art by Rose Valland, 1961, Plon edition, in French / français

05/22/2025

Part two of Ori Soltes' study of Alice Lok Cahana's paintings which echo in thought-provoking and almost mystical fashion her wartime trauma as a Holocaust survivor who saw hell up close.

by Ori Z Soltes The actual gate at Auschwitz The very materials and techniques that Cahana used are metaphors for the reality they convey. T...

05/22/2025

Alice Lok Cahana, Holocaust survivor and artist.

by Ori Z Soltes The Cahana Family Alice Lok Cahana (1929-2017) responded to the human quest for immortality by achieving it in a multi-laye...

05/09/2025

The Ciric Law Firm is recruiting legal externs for its Fall 2025 externship program. All applicants welcome!
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