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Expert Report of Jonathan G. Petropoulos regarding three Grosz artworks currently at the Museum of Modern Art 8/24/2009
Expert report submitted on behalf of the heirs of George Grosz in support of their claim to return three artworks that were lost by George Grosz due to Nazi persecution and are now in the collectio...   Read More

Nazi-Era Art Claims in the United States: 10 Years After the Washington Conference, by David J. Rowland 2/26/2009
February 16, 2009, Presented to the Federal Bar Council, 2009 Winter Bench and Bar Conference, Los Cabos and published in the Art & Cultural Heritage Law Newsletter Spring 2009.read article here   Read More

Have U.S. Museums Lived up to the Promise of the Washington Conference? The Case for the Mandatory Referral of Nazi-Era Art Claims to a Neutral Art Commission, by David J. Rowland 12/11/2008
Presented at the Symposium Verantwortung wahrnehmen-Taking Responsibility organized by the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and the Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste in Berlin on Decembe...   Read More

"Berlin Street Scene" by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 2/28/2008
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE OWNERSHIP OF KIRCHNER'S BERLIN STREET SCENE   1913-14 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painted Berlin Street Scene in his apartment-turned-studio at Körnerstrasse 45, in Berlin's F...   Read More

Restitution of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's "Berlin Street Scene" 1/2/2008
The historian Dr. Monika Tatzkow and the Berlin attorney Gunnar Schnabel, authors of the well known art restitution treatise “Nazi Looted Art – Worldwide Art Restitution,” were asked by the heir of...   Read More

Statement by Attorney Dr. Jost v. Trott zu Solz Regarding the Restitution of "Berlin Street Scene" 1/1/2008
Von Trott zu Solz Lammek Attorneys at law     Special Committee on Restitution of the Berlin House of Representatives on June 15, 2007   Relevant legal regulations, court decisions a...   Read More