(Image: collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) The New York Times published an article on the report of the Kohnstamm Committee and asked Gert Jan van den Bergh for his view on the matter. He states that the State of The Netherlands, museums and applicants should...
(Image: Allard Pierson) The challenge concerns the case of Ukraine regarding the Crimean gold that was loaned by four Crimean museums to the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam in 2013. Ukraine won the case in 2016 before the District Court. The Crimean museums filed...
(Photo: by Frans Hals Museum) On 24 May 2019, the Dutch Restitutions Committee recommended the restitution of two paintings in the Lierens case, in which Gert Jan van den Bergh and Martha Visser are acting for the Lierens heirs. The Canadian Mondex Corp. is...
On 19 September 2019 Gert Jan van den Bergh gave a lecture in Jerusalem, organized by The Center for Research of Dutch Jewry (CRDJ), in cooperation with the Hebrew University, regarding the Dutch policy on the restitution of Nazi looted art. He discussed the...
