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The Art Law Review
Gert-Jan van den Bergh, Martha Visser and Auke van Hoek have written a chapter in the publication The Art Law Review, part of the authoritative legal series The Law Reviews. In the chapter, the Art Law section of Bergh Stoop & Sanders provides an up to date...
Gert Jan van den Bergh comments on the letter to the Municipality of Amsterdam on the restitution of looted art in Dutch national newspaper NRC
(Image: collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) In a letter to the Amsterdam City Council, Mayor Femke Halsema and councilor for cultural affairs Touria Meliani (GroenLinks) state that they will follow the advice of the Kohnstamm Committee on the Dutch restitution...
Dutch Radio Spijkers met Koppen on looted art
Martha Visser was a guest at the radio programme Spijkers met Koppen to talk about the review of the restitution policy for Nazi looted art after the report by the Kohnstamm Committee, instituted by the Raad voor Cultuur. She did so together with Hester Bergen, who...
Decolonizing Depots: The Dutch Difference
Gert Jan van den Bergh wrote an article in the latest edition of the German journal Kunst und Recht (Volume 22, Issue 5/2020) in which he expresses his reaction to the the advisory report by the National Policy Framework Colonial Collections Advisory Committee, which...
Bonn Conference on the Kohnstamm report on the restitution of WOII looted art
Gert Jan van den Bergh was one of the speakers at The Bonn Talks on Art and Cultural Property Law, responding to the recently published Report of the Kohnstamm Committee on the Dutch restitution policy for looted art during WOII. The Conference ‘Striving for justice?...
Gert Jan van den Bergh gives his view on the report of the Kohnstamm committee in the New York Times
(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...
Challenge of judge granted in appeal case between state of Ukraine – Crimean museums
(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...
Bergh Stoop & Sanders represents Silbermann family in proceedings against Rijksmuseum
(Foto: Compostie Bart van der Leck, 1918 / © erven Bart van der Leck/Pictoright)On Friday 18 September 2020, the painting 'Composition' by Bart van der Leck from 1918, which is currently part of the Rijksmuseum's 20th century collection, was seized. The painting has...
Restitution of old masters after application to the Restitutions Committee
(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...
Lecture Gert Jan van den Bergh on the restitution of Nazi Looted Art in the Netherlands at The Center for Research of Dutch Jewry in Jeruzalem
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...
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