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paintings
Daniel Rolnik: ‘The world’s most adorable art critic’
Jewish Journal
May 8, 2013
Daniel Rolnik bills himself as “The World’s Most Adorable Art Critic,” and if you speak to him for even a minute, it’s easy to see why. Animated, passionate, whimsical and delightfully upbeat, Rolnik, 24, has made it his mission to introduce people to new and exciting artists, and more recently, to Judaism as well.
Sukkah splendor
Jewish Journal
September 19, 2012
The sukkah in the backyard of Leat Silvera’s home in the Beverlywood neighborhood of Los Angeles is up a little early this year. It’s not because she’s trying to get a jump on the holidays; it’s because she needs a place to look at her work — three large sukkah wall hangings that she designed herself.
Germany to restitute two Nazi-looted paintings
Jewish Journal
November 21, 2011
Germany will return two paintings to the sole heir of a collector who was murdered by the Nazis.\n
German casino returns Nazi-looted painting
Jewish Journal
October 25, 2011
German casino has returned a Nazi-looted painting to the heirs of a German-Jewish art gallery owner.
Fla. museum told to hold painting allegedly looted by Nazis
Jewish Journal
September 13, 2011
A small Florida museum was ordered to hold onto a painting on loan from Italy because it may have been looted by the Nazis.
Two Nazi-looted paintings restituted to Vienna family
Jewish Journal
April 6, 2011
Two paintings confiscated by the Nazis from a Jewish family in Vienna have been returned to its heirs following two years of negotiations. The London-based Commission for Looted Art in Europe announced Wednesday that a work by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein (1788-1868) was delivered by the Dresden Gemaldegalerie museum to London to be given to the heirs of the Rosauer family in Vienna. Another work, by Johann Baptist Lampi the Elder (1751-1830), was returned to the family in late 2010. It had been in the custody of the German government.
Austria Makes Reparations for Nazi Past
Tom Tugend
January 26, 2006
In a high-profile case, Maria Altmann won her seven-year battle to recover from Austria five famous paintings looted by the Nazis and now valued at $200 million. The art works were seized in Vienna in 1938 from Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a wealthy Jewish sugar magnate and Altmann\’s uncle.
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