Stedelijk Museum must return Kandinsky painting to heirs

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...
Portrait of an Art Lawyer

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...
Museum De Fundatie settles with Semmel heirs on nazi looted art

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...
The Art Law Review

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...
Dutch Radio Spijkers met Koppen on looted art

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...