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...
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...
(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...
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...
(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...
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...
