The Claude Monet pastel looted from a Jewish couple by Nazis in the second world war was returned to the family’s descendants, officials said on Wednesday
Adalbert “Bela” and Hilda Parlagi purchased the artwork, titled Bord de Mer, at an Austrian art auction in 1936. After Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938, the Parlagis had to flee and they left their possessions in storage.
The Nazis in 1940 seized their belongings, which included seven other artworks
The Monet, which dates to about 1865, subsequently “disappeared” in 1941, the FBI said in a press release.
“It’s an act of justice to have it returned,” Anne Webber, co-chair of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, reportedly said. “It has huge sentimental feeling for the family.”
Art crimes fascinate me. Thank you for sharing.
@Kurtroedeger this one fascinated me
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Biggest art heist ever
It is on Netflix as docudrama
https://www.netflix.com/ie/title/81032570
Well worth watching if you haven't seen it
@ecksmc
I think they need to program a bot that trawls ultra wealthy kids social media and compares the art in the background to the stolen art database
@Kurtroedeger and these
Scottish Da Vinci art heist explored in new BBC podcast - The nine-part series, titled The Missing Madonna, will feature secret recordings which have never been made public, asking serious questions about the way in which stolen artwork is returned.
https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2023/the-missing-madonna-podcast
And
The world's greatest paintings - the most audacious art heists of all time. Gripping true stories of a global game of cat and mouse as high culture meets underworld.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001c2mj