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...
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?...
(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...
(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...
In the context of recent developments in the field of looted art and a major conference in Berlin in November 2018, “Het Nieuw Israëlitisch Weekblad” is publishing a major article on restitution of Nazi looted art. The case of the Adelsberger family is...
