Category: art law

2025-03-02

In the Media: Lincoln, Napoleon and Hitler Walk into a Bar

Does the 1907 Hague Convention on land warfare require signatory countries to open courts to claims for restitution of nazi-looted art?
A Meditation on Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation and Why a european directive could fix this horrible mess.

Written by Raymond J. Dowd for KUR-Kunst und Recht, Volume 26 (2024), Issue 5-6

Lincoln Napoleon and Hitler Walk Into A Bar

2018-08-06

Looted art remains in US Museum / Naziraubkunst bleibt in US Museum

In the end of July 2018, the final court decision was issued according to which two Cranach paintings stolen by Nazis for the Hermann-Göring-Collection remain in the American Norton Simon Museum and do not have to be returned to the heirs of the Dutch Goudstikker family.

In his lecture from 2015, Ray Dowd – the lawyer of Fritz Grünbaum’s heirs – deals with the problems that victims´ families can expect when making demands on American museums.

Ende Juli 2018 erging die finale Gerichtsentscheidung, wonach – von Nazis für die Sammlung Göring geraubte – zwei Cranach Bilder im amerikanischen Norton Simon Museum verbleiben und nicht an die Erben der holländischen Familie Goudstikker restituiert werden müssen.

In seinem Vortrag aus dem Jahre 2015 beschäftigt sich Ray Dowd – der Anwalt der Erben von Fritz Grünbaum – mit den zu erwartenden Problemen der Opferfamilien bei Forderungen an amerikanischen Museen.

2013-05-31

Nazi Looted Art and Cocaine: When Museum Directors Take It, Call the Cops!

The Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, as part of their Nuremberg volume, just published Ray Dowds article: Nazi Looted Art and Cocaine: When Museum Directors Take It, Call the Cops

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