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This is the Art law blog of the Netherlands. This blog covers judgements by the courts in the Netherlands, opinions from the Dutch Restitutions Committee and recent developments in all areas of art law, both national and international. Kunstrecht.nl is an initiative of Bergh Stoop & Sanders attorneys and is edited by its art law section. If you wish to copy content from Kunstrecht.nl on your own website, please contact the editors. Copyright reserved.
The Treasures of Crimea
The documentary 'The Treasures of Crimea' by Oeke Hoogendijk will be shown in Dutch cinemas from the beginning of March 2022. The film documents the legal battle that Bergh Stoop & Sanders Lawyers waged on behalf of its client, the State of Ukraine, for the return...
Second edition: The Art Law Review
In January, the second edition of the book The Art Law Review, part of the authoritative legal series The Law Reviews, was published. In the chapter 'the Netherlands', the Art Law section of Bergh Stoop & Sanders provides a current overview of art law issues in...
Second edition: The Art Law Review
In January, the second edition of the book The Art Law Review, part of the authoritative legal series The Law Reviews, was published. In the chapter 'the Netherlands', the Art Law section of Bergh Stoop & Sanders provides a current overview of art law issues in...
Crimean Treasures to be returned to Ukraine
(photo: Allard Pierson) Today, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal, Gerechtshof Amsterdam, rendered judgment in the case between the State of Ukraine, Allard Pierson Museum and four Crimean museums, which has been ongoing since 2014. The Court of Appeal...
Stedelijk Museum must return Kandinsky painting to heirs
Photo: collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam The City of Amsterdam decided that the work 'Bild mit Haüsern' by Kandinsky from the collection of the Stedelijk Museum will be returned to the Lewenstein heirs. After the negative binding expert opinion at the Dutch...
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen sued by architects for demolition of the Museum’s glass-wing
Photo: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Installation of Richard Serra's work Waxing Arcs in the museum wing) The Belgian architectural firm Robbrecht & Daem, which in 2003 was allowed to realize the extension of the glass wing of the Rotterdam museum Boijmans Van...
EUIPO declares trademark Banksy invalid
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) issued a decision on 20 May 2021, regarding a trademark of famous street artist Banksy – see below the work Banksy had registered as a trademark. The applicant held that the trademark right was invalid under...
Portrait of an Art Lawyer
Gert-Jan van den Bergh was interviewed for Columbia Law School’s alumni column 'Lions of Law' about his art law practice. The interview includes the Dutch position on restitution of Nazi looted art, colonial looted art and the case of the Crimean treasures for the...
Storage fees due after research and restoration of paintings
ARRS, a studio for research and restoration of paintings, claims € 38,260.63 from an owner of three portrait paintings by Caspar Netscher. This amount would be due according to a contract for the restoration of the paintings and its custody. Recently, the District...
Museum De Fundatie settles with Semmel heirs on nazi looted art
(photo: Museum de Fundatie Zwolle and Heino/Wijhe) The museum will pay the current market value of a painting by Bernardo Strozzi, Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well (1635), to the heirs of businessman and art collector Richard Semmel, allowing the museum to...
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