Posts by Danielle Koehler
Underwater
A cumulus cloud wandered overhead as Angela floated on her back in the ocean. She was numb to the water temperature as she watched the cloud slowly moving by, studying its heavenly form—its snowy-white wings and flowing robe. Angela often thought about her sister while she was at the beach. Anna had been gone almost…
Read More“Federal Lawsuit Seeks To Recover Art Lost During Nazi Occupation Of Netherlands” by FORBES
by Walter Pavlo In September, Moderna Museet Stockholm decided that a portrait by Austrian expressions artist Oskar Kokoshka would be returned to the family of Alfred Flechtheim.  The museum bought the piece in 1934, a year after Alexander Vömel, an art dealer who was a member of the Nazi Party’s brownshirts paramilitary group, confiscated Flechtheim’s entire Dusseldorf gallery.  In 2009, the same museum…
Read More“Dutch art panel’s ruling against Jewish family criticised as ‘step back'” by the Guardian
by Daniel Boffey, Brussels The decision of a Dutch art committee to back one of the Netherlands’ most prestigious museums in its attempt to hold on to a prized painting obtained from a Jewish family in 1940 has sparked an international outcry over the fate of Nazi loot across Europe. The binding ruling against the descendants…
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