Commission Finds Dutch Museums May Possess Nazi-Looted Art
SAINT LOUIS | JEWISH LIGHT
AMSTERDAM---Dozens of Dutch museums are in possession of at least 139 items with “problematic origins,” a special commission on stolen Holocaust-era art in the Netherlands has determined. The list that the Committee for Museum Acquisitions from 1933 onwards published on Tuesday includes priceless items that are in the hands of 41 museums, including world-famous institutions like the Rijks Museum and the Stedelijk Museum, which have nine and 11 “problematic” items respectively. Sixty-one items were flagged because “of the name of the owners and most of these 61 items belonged to Jews,” The full findings were to be published on the Dutch-language website www.musealeverwervingen.nl Tuesday. [link]
AMSTERDAM---Dozens of Dutch museums are in possession of at least 139 items with “problematic origins,” a special commission on stolen Holocaust-era art in the Netherlands has determined. The list that the Committee for Museum Acquisitions from 1933 onwards published on Tuesday includes priceless items that are in the hands of 41 museums, including world-famous institutions like the Rijks Museum and the Stedelijk Museum, which have nine and 11 “problematic” items respectively. Sixty-one items were flagged because “of the name of the owners and most of these 61 items belonged to Jews,” The full findings were to be published on the Dutch-language website www.musealeverwervingen.nl Tuesday. [link]
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