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Nazi-looted art body calls for more transparency in German art market
29 June 2016Calls for greater transparency in the way German institutions deal with Nazi-looted art should be extended to the country’s art and antiques trade, the Commission for Looted Art in Europe has said.
Cultural property law to be debated in German parliament
30 November 2015The German Cultural Property and Heritage Protection Law (Kulturschutzgesetz) is due to be debated in the German Bundestag next spring after a “defused” draft of the law received cabinet approval on November 4.
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Nazi looted Houdon bust returns to Poland
20 November 2015A late 18th century bust of the Goddess Diana which was looted from the Royal Lazienki Palace in Warsaw by the Nazis has been returned to Poland after emerging at auction in Vienna.
German collectors and artists join protest against new heritage law proposals
11 August 2015In Germany, software billionaire Hasso Plattner has become the latest collector to demonstrate opposition to the proposed cultural property law changes.
London numismatists urge clients to oppose German Cultural Property law changes
04 August 2015Coin specialists AH Baldwin & Sons are encouraging their customers to sign the petition opposing an amendment to the controversial German Cultural Property and Heritage Protection Law.
Petitioners protest at German rule change
24 July 2015Opposition to controversial new laws governing cultural heritage in Germany is gathering pace. Auctioneers, dealers and collectors are backing a petition ‘preserving the right to privately collect’ and calling for German the government to rethink its proposals.
Bernheimer sale signals new direction for Munich dealership
28 May 2015Sotheby’s will hold a sale of the Bernheimer family collection in November and Konrad Bernheimer has announced the family’s Munich art dealership will move from its traditional Old Master specialism to concentrate on Modern and Contemporary art under the direction of his daughters.
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Handel manuscript emerges at Berlin auction
11 March 2015Only one other major George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) manuscript has come up for auction in the last 40 years, so Stargardt in Berlin can be assured of an international audience for the extensive autograph work they will offer on March 24-25.
Munich fair cancelled
09 March 2015The April edition of the ‘Kunst & Antiquitäten’ fair will not go ahead this year.
Gurlitt hoard bequest shock
27 May 2014The Kunstmuseum Bern has called the huge art bequest by Cornelius Gurlitt a “bolt from the blue, since at no time has Mr Gurlitt had any connection with” the museum.
Netsuke bonanza at Cologne saleroom
12 May 2014In a series of sales to be spread over the coming years, Cologne auctioneers Lempertz are selling netsuke from the Kolodotschko collection.
Auctionata secure funding
22 April 2014The Berlin-based online art and auction house Auctionata has secured €21.5 million in new equity capital and funding following a second funding round from the existing investors.
Doubts rise over Munich art hoard returns
04 December 2013Statute of limitations laws may prevent previous owners successfully reclaiming art acquired during the Nazi purge of the late 1930s that was hoarded in a Munich flat.
Debate over status of €1bn Munich art cache
11 November 2013Details are slowly emerging regarding the discovery in Munich some two years ago of an extraordinary cache of art with a Nazi era provenance.
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Nagel toast €2.8m German Oriental art record
28 May 2013Stuttgart auctioneers Nagel achieved a new German auction record for Oriental art when they sold a Yongzheng mark and period wine pot and cover for €2.8m (£2.37m).
Scam guides target trade yet again
25 February 2013Scam guides have reared their head again, targeting dealers in a bid to extort large sums of money for useless advertising.
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Buyer bites into rare slice of Apple computer history
10 January 2013Auction Team Breker in Cologne have sold a technical rarity of the highest order – one of the six known working models of the first computer ever made by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, the founders of Apple.
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Bacon rugs: The Third Man emerges
08 October 2012The appearance of a Modernist carpet at a sale in Germany next month writes a further chapter in the tale of two rugs, signed ‘Francis Bacon’, that have been withdrawn from sale in the UK twice in three years.
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Ducat from Carl Vogel collection sparks international competition
16 August 2012A Prussian ducat from 1803 is considered one of the greatest rarities among 19th century German coins.
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Finnish ‘leaf dish’ heads Munich sale
16 August 2012A 22in (57cm) long laminated wooden ‘Leaf Dish’ designed by the Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala (1915-85), estimated at €1200-1500, turned out to be the top lot of the summer Design sale held by Munich’s Quittenbaum.
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