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World War II-Era/Holocaust Related Art Loss
| Case Name | Date Ended |
Jurisdiction | Object in Dispute | Claims/ Legal Issues |
Decision/ Settlement |
| Adler Heirs v. The Guggenheim | Pending | State | Woman Ironing (La repasseuse) | Conversion | Pending |
| Adler v. Taylor | 2007 | Federal | van Gogh painting: Vue de l’Asile et de la Chapelle de Saint-Rémy | Statute of Limitations | Dismissed |
| Altmann v. Austria | 2006 | Federal | Five Gustav Klimt paintings | Replevin | Arbitration Decision |
| Attorney General v. Trustees of the British Museum (Feldmann Heirs) | 2005 | International | 4 Old Master drawings | Replevin | Settled |
| Bakalar v. Vavra & Fischer | 2012 | Federal | Schiele drawing of Seated Woman | Theft | Judgment for Plaintiff(s) |
| Bamberger Heirs' Claim Against the Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany | 2002 | International | Nolde painting: Bauernhof | Title | Non-litigated Settlement |
| Beck v. Horowitz | 2022 | Federal | L'Anse des Pilotes, après-midi, temps ensoleillé, Le Havre | Conversion | Settled |
| Bennigson v. Alsdorf; United States v. One Oil Painting Entitled “Femme En Blanc” By Pablo Picasso; Alsdorf v. Bennigson | 2005 | State | Picasso painting: Femme en Blanc | Conversion | Settled |
| Berg v. The Netherlands & Dutch Museums | 2022 | Federal | The Evesdropper (1657) | Declaratory Action | Affirmed |
| Bloom v. Emden | 2022 | Federal | Claude Monet Le Palais Ducal | Declaratory Action | Judgment for Plaintiff(s) |
| Cassirer & Bennigson v. Hahn | 2005 | State | Pissarro Painting: Rue de Saint Honoré après-midi, effet de pluie and Picasso painting: Femme en Blanc | Constructive Trust | Settled |
| Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection | Pending | Federal | Pissarro painting: Rue St. Honoré Après-Midi, Effet de Pluie | Conversion | Pending |
| Chabad v. Russia | Pending | Federal | Books, Documents, and Manuscripts | Replevin | Pending |
| City of Gotha v. Sotheby's | 1998 | International | Wtewael painting: Holy Family with Saints John and Elizabeth and Angels | Conversion | Judgment for Plaintiff(s) |
| Czartoryski-Borbon v. Turcotte | 2001 | State | Mostaert painting: Portrait of a Lady | Replevin | Confidential Settlement |
| De Csepel v. Hungary (Herzog heirs) | Pending | Federal | El Greco, "Saint Andrew"; Corot, "Portrait of a Woman"; Cranach the Elder, "Annunciation of Saint Joachim" | Replevin | Pending |
| DeWeerth v. Baldinger | 1994 | Federal | Monet painting : Champs de Blé à Vétheuil | Bona Fide Purchaser | Judgment for Defendant(s) |
| Detroit Institute of Arts v. Ullin | 2007 | Federal | van Gogh painting: The Diggers | Title | Dismissed |
| Di Giuseppe Heirs' Claim Against Art Institute of Chicago for Mochi Bust | 2000 | International | Mochi sculpture: Bust of a Youth | Title | Confidential Settlement |
| Di Giuseppe Heirs' Claim Against Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | 2000 | State | Giaquinto painting: Adoration of the Magi | Conversion | Settled |
| Di Giuseppe Heirs' Claim Against Princeton University Art Museum | 2001 | International | Pinturicchio painting: St. Bartholomew | Good Faith Purchaser | Settled |
| Di Giuseppe v. Musée du Louvre | 1999 | International | Five Italian Paintings | Forced Sale | Judgment for Plaintiff(s) |
| Dunbar v. Seger-Thomschitz | 2011 | Federal | 1910 Oskar Kokoschka painting | Title | Judgment for Plaintiff(s) |
| Emden v. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | 2023 | Federal | Bellotto's Marketplace at Pirna | Title | Dismissed |
| Estate of Kainer v. UBS & Christie’s | 2021 | State | Degas painting | Title | Affirmed |
| Feldmann Heirs Recover Looted Old Master Drawing | 2006 | International | Flinck Drawing: The Liberation of Saint Peter From Prison (formerly attributed to Rembrandt) | Title | Non-litigated Settlement |
| Feldmann Heirs' Claim Against the Courtauld Institute of Art | 2006 | International | Architectural Capriccio | Title | Settled |
| France Claim Against de Young Museum | 1986 | International | Mola painting: Erminia and Valfrino Tending the Wounded Tancred | Title | Non-litigated Settlement |
| France v. Williams | 2001 | International | Theft | Conviction | |
| Frenk v. Solomon | 2019 | State | Four expressionist paintings | Conversion | Judgment for Defendant(s) |
| Goodman & Gutmann v. Searle | 1998 | Federal | Degas monotype pastel: Landscape with Smokestacks | Title | Litigated, subsequently settled |
| Gowen v. Nahmad Gallery | Pending | State | Modigliani painting | Title | Pending |
| Grosz v. Museum of Modern Art | 2011 | Federal | George Grosz Painting "The Poet Nerrmann-Neisse" | Replevin | Judgment for Defendant(s) |
| Hainisch Sisters' Claim Against North Carolina Museum of Art | 2000 | Federal | Cranach painting: Madonna and Child in a Landscape | Title | Non-litigated Settlement |
| Halphen Claim Against Detroit Institute of Arts | 1950 | International | Monet painting: The Seine at Asnières | Title | Non-litigated Settlement |
| Hartog Heir's Claim Against Denver Museum of Art | 2000 | State | Circle of Gerard ter Borch painting: The Letter | Forced Sale | Non-litigated Settlement |
| Hess Heir's Claim Against Germany for Kirchner Painting | 2006 | International | Kirchner painting: Berlin Street Scene | Forced Sale | Settled |
| In re "Deux Femmes Dans Un Jardin" | 2018 | Federal | Renoir painting | Title | Work Recovered/Restitution |
| In re Alterr, Inc., d/b/a Ashkenazie & Co. (Schloss Heirs' Claim against Ashkenazie) | 1999 | Federal | Rembrandt painting: The Old Man with the White Beard and the Black Cap | Title | Work Recovered/Restitution |
| In re Peters | 2006 | State | Edvard Munch's "Strasse in Kragero" | Conversion | Judgment for Defendant(s) |
| In the Matter of Flamenbaum | 2013 | State | Ancient inscribed gold tablet | Title | Work Recovered/Restitution |
| Italy Claim Against Wadsworth Atheneum for Zucchi Painting | 1998 | International | Zucchi painting: The Bath of Bathsheba | Title | Non-litigated Settlement |
| Jaffé Heirs' Claim Against Kimbell Art Museum | 2006 | International | Turner painting: Glaucus and Scylla | Title | Non-litigated Settlement |
| Joram Deutsch v. Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2004 | State | El Greco painting: Mount Sinai | Conversion | Dismissed |
| Jorisch v. Lauder | 2007 | Federal | Blooming Meadow by Gustav Klimt | Title | Withdrawn |
| Kann Association Claim Against Menil Collection | 2002 | International | Matisse painting: La Rivière aux Aloes | Title | Non-litigated Settlement |
| Koenigs Heir's and The Netherlands' Claims Against Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Pending | International | met de Bles painting: Landscape with Burning City | Title | Pending |
| Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar (Weimar Museum) Claim Against Consignor to Sotheby's | 1997 | International | Tischbein painting: Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Hervey Hollding a Dove | Title | Non-litigated Settlement |
| Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar v. Elicofon | 1982 | Federal | Dürer portraits of Hans and Felicitas Tucher | Title | Judgment for Plaintiff(s) |
| Lehman Foundation, Inc. v. Zirkl / Bar v. Portrait of the Artist’s Wife | Pending | State | Schiele work on paper, gouache and black crayon | Declaratory Action | Pending |
| Lissitzky v. Beyeler Foundation | 2002 | International | Kandinsky painting: Improvisation No. 10 | Statute of Limitations | Settled |
| Menzel v. List | 1969 | State | Chagall gouache: Le Paysan et l'echelle | Replevin | Judgment for Plaintiff(s) |
| Meyer v. University of Oklahoma | 2016 | Federal | Camille Pissarro painting | Title | Settled |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston v. Seger-Thomschitz | 2010 | Federal | Two Nudes (Lovers) by Oskar Kokoschka | Statute of Limitations | Judgment for Plaintiff(s) |
| Newman Claim Against Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2001 | International | Monet painting: Le Repos dans le Jardin | Title | Non-litigated Settlement |
| Orkin v. Swiss Confederation | 2011 | Federal | Les Saintes-Maries de la Mer | Replevin | Dismissed |
| Philipp v. Germany (Guelph Treasure) | 2023 | Federal | Objects from the Guelph Treasure (Welfenschatz) | Forced Sale | Pending |
| Poland and Ukraine Claims Against Twelve Museums for Lubomirski Dürers | Pending | International | Two drawings by Dürer and one drawing by Baldung Grien. | Title | Pending |
| Price v. United States; Hoffman v. United States | 2003 | Federal | Hitler watercolors | Conversion | Dismissed |
| Reif v. Nagy | 2022 | State | Egon Schiele Watercolors | Title | Affirmed |
| Reif v. The Art Institute of Chicago (Grunbaum Schieles) | Pending | Federal | Russian Prisoner of War (1916) | Declaratory Action | Dismissed |
| Rosenberg v. Seattle Art Museum v. Knoedler-Modarco, Inc. | 2000 | Federal | Matisse painting: L'Odalisque | Fraud | Settled |
| Rothschild Heirs' Claim Against Austria | 1999 | International | Hals painting: Portrait of Tieleman Roosterman | Forced Sale | Work Recovered/Restitution |
| Schoeps v. Bavaria (Bayern) | 2015 | Federal | Picasso painting | Government Immunity | Affirmed |
| Schoeps v. Museum of Modern Art | 2009 | Federal | Picasso Paintings: Boy Leading a Horse and Le Moulin de la Galette | Conversion | Litigated, subsequently settled |
| Schoeps v. Sompo Holdings, Inc. (Van Gogh Tokyo Sunflowers) | Pending | Federal | Tokyo Sunflowers | Conversion | Pending |
| Silberberg Heir's Settlement with Art Institute of Chicago | 2001 | International | The Rock of Hautepierre (c. 1869) | Forced Sale | Non-litigated Settlement |
| Silver v. Metropolitan Museum of Art and Goulandris Foundation | Pending | Federal | Olive Picking (La cueillette des olives)/Van Gogh/1889 | Replevin | Pending |
| Sotheby's v. Shene | 2009 | Federal | 16th-century German book of drawings, prints, and engravings | Replevin | Work Recovered/Restitution |
| Springfield Library v. Knoedler Archivum | 2004 | Federal | da Ponte painting: Spring Sowing | Breach of Warranty | Litigated, subsequently settled |
| Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Claim Against Philadelphia Museum of Art | 2000 | International | Five works of the Elector of Saxony’s armor | Title | Non-litigated Settlement |
| Stern Heirs’ Claim Against National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) | 2000 | International | Snyders painting: Still Life with Fruit and Game | Title | Non-litigated Settlement |
| The Netherlands v. Ian Woodner | 1991 | Federal | Baldung drawing Virgin and Child | Title | Settled |
| Toledo Museum of Art v. Ullin | 2006 | Federal | Gauguin painting: Street Scene in Tahiti | Title | Dismissed |
| United States v. Aleskerova (Bremen-Baku) | 2001 | Federal | 12 Old Master drawings: including Dürer's Women's Bathhouse | Theft | Conviction |
| United States v. Meador (Quedlinburg) | 1998 | Federal | Quedlinburg Church Medieval Treasures | Statute of Limitations | Settled |
| United States v. One Painting entitled “Winter” | 2020 | Federal | Gari Melchers painting | In Rem Action | Seizure of Work |
| United States v. One Tintoretto Painting | 1982 | Federal | Tintoretto painting: Holy Family with Saint Catherine and Honored Donor | Illegal Export/ Import | Settled |
| United States v. Painting Known as Cristo Portacroce | 2012 | Federal | "Cristo Portacroce" | Title | Judgment for Plaintiff(s) |
| United States v. Portrait of Wally | 2010 | Federal | Schiele painting: Portrait of Wally | Theft | Litigated, subsequently settled |
| United States v. Six Paintings Seized from Paul Gorzocoski III d/b/a Northfield Auctions | 2008 | Federal | 6 Italian and German landscape paintings | Forfeiture | Settled |
| United States v. Vaccaro (Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar) | 2000 | Federal | de Barbari painting: Bust of Christ | Possession of Stolen Property | Seizure of Work |
| University of Kassel v. Chatalbash | 1998 | Federal | Seven 16th century miniature paintings, including four works by Bening | Good Faith Purchaser | Litigated, subsequently settled |
| Vineberg v. Bissonnette (Max Stern Estate) | 2008 | Federal | Winterhalter painting: Girl from the Sabiner Mountains | Forced Sale | Judgment for Plaintiff(s) |
| Von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum of Art | 2019 | Federal | Lucas Cranach the Elder Diptych: Adam and Eve | Conversion | Judgment for Defendant(s) |
| Wach v. Byrne, Goldenberg & Hamilton, PLLC | 2012 | Federal | Picasso Paintings: Boy Leading a Horse and Le Moulin de la Galette | Breach of Contract | Dismissed |
| Warin v. Wildenstein | 2007 | State | 15th-17th century illuminated manuscripts | Replevin | Dismissed |
| Weinmann Heirs' Claim Against Yale University Art Gallery | 2001 | Federal | Le Grand Pont (1864) by Gustave Courbet | Replevin | Non-litigated Settlement |
| Wertheimer v. Cirker’s Hayes Storage Warehouse Inc. | 2002 | State | Pissarro painting: La Seine- La Passerelle de L’Institut au fond le quai et le Louvre | Replevin | Judgment for Defendant(s) |
| Westfield v. Federal Republic of Germany | 2011 | Federal | Westfeld art collection | Subject Matter Jurisdiction | Dismissed |
| Williams v. National Gallery of Art, London | 2019 | Federal | Matisse painting | Sovereign Immunity | Judgment for Defendant(s) |
| Zuckerman v. Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2020 | Federal | Picasso Painting | Forced Sale | Dismissed |