Tag Archives: trove

Hoard of gold coins found in old piano

Posted on: May 9, 2017 by Geoffrey Bennett

On the year marking the 20th anniversary of the modernisation of treasure law in England, a case has come to light serving as a throwback to the earlier law of ‘treasure trove’. The Treasure Act 1996, implemented in 1997, marked a significant advance on the previous law. The definition of ‘treasure’ under the Act is […]

Art law on film: Woman in Gold

Posted on: April 16, 2015 by Alexander Herman

‘What do you know about art restitution?’ ‘Not a thing.’ The question comes from Maria Altmann, played by Helen Mirren, and the answer is from her lawyer, Randol Schoenberg, played by Ryan Reynolds, in Woman in Gold, the film dramatising Altmann’s quest for the return of five Gustav Klimt paintings that had been taken from her family during the […]

US action for restitution of Guelph Treasure

Posted on: February 27, 2015 by Alexander Herman

A complaint was filed this week in a US court which seeks the return of the Guelph Treasure, a famous collection of German medieval items, currently held by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. The complaint is being brought by descendants of the one-time Jewish owners of the treasure, who had to part with it in 1935. The collection had […]

Entire list of Gurlitt collection published

Posted on: December 3, 2014 by Alexander Herman

For the first time since its discovery in February of 2012 – or indeed for the first time ever – the collection of approximately 1600 works of art belonging to Cornelius Gurlitt has been made public. This has been done by the Museum of Fine Art Bern (or Kunstmuseum) in two separate parts: those found in his […]

BBC One Imagine doc explores Gurlitt affair

Posted on: November 4, 2014 by Ruth Redmond-Cooper

Tonight on BBC One will be the second of a two-part series on the Cornelius Gurlitt art trove entitled ‘The Sins of the Father’. The episode is part of the programme Imagine hosted by Alan Yentob and will air at 22.35. The first in the series, ‘The Art That Hitler Hated‘ aired last Tuesday on BBC One, […]

Gurlitt Task Force to return work to Friedmann heir

Posted on: August 18, 2014 by Alexander Herman

The task force made up of provenance experts dealing with the works found in the apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 has recommended that a painting by impressionist artist Max Liebermann be restituted. The fourteen-member task force, often referred to as the “Schwabing Art Trove” Task Force was established in November 2013 by the German federal government and the […]

Norman Palmer QC CBE is asked to comment on a national news channel on the discovery of ‘Treasure Trove’ of Nazi-Confiscated Art Works in Munich

Posted on: November 7, 2013 by Ruth Redmond-Cooper

  The extraordinary revelation this week of the find more than two years ago in a flat in Munich of a huge number of art works gives rise to many questions, both legal and evidential, and raises many challenges for the authorities in Germany that now have possession of the artworks in question. Norman Palmer QC […]