Bibliography
 


The bibliography gives an overview of books in two parts: 1. Books on general aspects, giving a good insight into the history of spoils of war, policy of restitutions after the war and into legal issues which are related to cultural property and published during the last years; 2. important publications about looted art of various countries. Articles of the daily press are only included in special cases.

Books and Articles on General Aspects

Franz, Michael Markus. Zivilrechtliche Probleme des Kulturgüteraustausches. Frankfurt 1996. (ISBN 3-631-50034-3)
[Problems of private law related to the exchange of cultural values; doctoral dissertation of the author.]

Kowalsk, Wojciech. Art Theasures and War. A Study on the Restitution of Looted Cultural Property Pursuant to Public International Law. Leicester 1998.

Neues Recht zum Schutz von Kulturgut: Internationaler Kulturgüterschutz. EG-Richtlinien, UNIDROIT-Konvention und Folgerecht. (Schriftenreihe des Ludwig Boltzmann Institutes für Europarecht. Vol. 1). Wien 1997.
["The New Law for the Protection of Cultural Values: International Protection of Cultural Values. EC-Guidelines, UNIDROIT-Convention and the droil de suit (Resale Right)" is the publication of the colloquium which the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European Law, Vienna organized in 1997.]

Books and Articles on Specific Countries

FRANCE

National News ... in Brief // ARTnews. Vol. 96. No. 11. December 1997. P. 52.
[A Matisse painting stolen from a Jewish art dealer in Paris during the Nazi Occupation of France has turned up in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum.]

Pillages et Restitutions. Le Destin des Ouevres d'Art Sorties de France Pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Paris 1997.
[Publication of the international conference "Spoils of War and Restitutions. The Destiny of French Works of Art During the Second World War" on the MNR, organized by the Directorate of the Museums of France, which took place in the Louvre on November 17, 1996 under the presidency ofFran9oise Cachin., see "Spoils of War", no. 3, pp. 39-41.]


GERMANY

Attias, Laurie. International News. "Paris - Looking for Loot at the Louvre // ARTnews. Vol. 87. No. 4. April 1998. P. 74.
[About the paintings claimed from the Louvre by the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal, Germany.]

Panorama - Amerikaner geben Hitler's Möbel zurück // Der Spiegel. No. 442. Januar 5, 1998. S. 16.
["The American forces Returned Part of Hitler's Furniture to Germany".]

National News ... in Brief // ARTnews. Vol. 96. No. 11. December 1997. S. 52.
[Azerbaidshan citizen Natavan Aleskerova and her companion Aydyn Ali have been charged in the attempted sale of Drawings Missing since the war from the Bremen Kunsthalle.]

D'Arcy, David. "Bremen Up-Date - from Baku, with Love" // The Art Newspaper. Vol. 8. No. 77. January 1998. Front Page.
[About the Attempted Sale of Drawings from the Bremen Kunsthalle, six of which are being held by Customs.]

Deals in der Vorhölle // Der Spiegel. No. 4/1998. Januar 19, 1998. S. 192-193.
["Deals in Purgatory" reports that the director of the Von-der-Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal, Germany claims nine 19th-century drawings and paintings missing since 1945 and today in the Paris Louvre.]

Feliciano, Hector. Das verlorene Museum - Vom Kunstraub der Nazis. Berlin 1998.
["The Lost Museum - On the Art Looting of the Nazis". German edition, see "Spoils of War", no. 3]

Manasse, Peter M. Verschleppte Archive und Bibliotheken. Die Tätigkeit des Einsatzstabes Rosenberg während des zweiten Weltkrieges. St. Ingberg 1997. (ISBN 3-86110-131-9).
["Displaced Archives and Libraries: The Activity of the Rosenberg Task Force during the Second World War".]

Neidhardt, Uta. Zurück in Dresden: Eine Ausstellung aus Anlaß der Wiedergewinnung seit 1945 verschollener Werke der Staatlichen Kunstsammlung Dresden // Dresdener Kunstblätter. No. 2. 1998. S. 61-63. (ISSN 0418-0615). ["Back to Dresden. An Exhibition of Formerly Missing Works of the State Galleries Dresden Back in Dresden".]

Müller-Oelrichs, Gaby. Berichte. Bücherrückgabe aus zweierlei Sicht // Laurentius 15. Vol. 1. 1998. S. 51-52.
["Reports. Restitution of Books from Two Points of View." Short summary of a librarians' meeting on October 11, 1997 in Bremen discussing the problems in regard to books of former Jewish owners being unletigimately in German libraries and historical and political aspects of the German-Russian discussion of restitutions concerning books as war booty.]

Poethe, Lothar. Wo ist die Gutenberg-Bibel? Die wertvollsten Bestände des Deutschen Buch- und Schriftmuseums in Leipzig als Kriegsbeute. Leipzig 1997.
["Where's the Gutenberg Bible? The Most Valuable Collections of the German Museum of books and Prints as War Booty".]

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Die Beziehungen der Berliner Staatsbibliotheken nach Polen. Reflexionen zur Zeit- und Bestandsgeschichte. Herausgegeben von Antonius Jammers. Wiesbaden 1997. S. 186. (Beiträge aus der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Bd. 5).
["The Relationship between the State Library Berlin and Poland: Reflexions on Contemporary History and the History of the Collections".]

Sternstunden. Kunstwerke aus zwei Jahrhunderten erworben mit Mitteln der Kulturstiftung der Länder 1988-1998. Berlin 1998.
[Catalogue of the exhibition "Great Moments: Artworks of two Millennia Purchased with Financial Means from the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States" in which i.e. parts of the returned Quedlinburg treasure were displayed.]

Zurück in Dresden: Eine Ausstellung Ehemals Vermißter Werke aus Dresdener Museen. Skulpturensammlung, Rüstkammer, Kupferstich-Kabinet, Gemäldegalerie Alte und Neue Meister, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Porzellansammlung. Dresden 1998. (ISBN 3-932353-19-6).
["Back in Dresden: An Exhibition of Formerly Missing Works of the State Galleries Dresden. Collection of Sculptures, Armoury, Department of Prints and Drawings, Picture Gallery Old and New Masters, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Collection ofPorcelaine".]

Verlustdokumentation der Gothaer Kunstsammlungen. Die kunsthandwerklichen Sammlungen. Vol. 1. Gotha 1997.
["The Documentation of Losses of the Art Collections Gotha. The Arts and Crafts Collections".]


HUNGARY

Displaced Books from Sárospatak Calvinist College Library (Hungary in the Collection of Nizhny Novgorod Regional Research Library. Catalogue compiled dy E.Zhuravleva, N.Zubkov, E.Korkmazova. Moscow 1997.


ITALY

Bondioli Osio, Mario. The Bath of Bathsheba by Zucci. The Adventurous Life of a Masterpiece // Caravaggio and his Italian Followers from the Collections of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica di Roma. Venice 1998.
[The introductory text to the catalogue informs about the history of the painting's loss, its rediscovery at the Wadsworth Atheneum Art Collection, Hartford, Connecticut which is willing to return it to the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome.]

Bondioli Osio, Mario. Ai Musei di Bologna // I Beni Culturali della Difesa. La Difesa dei Beni Culturali. Rome 1998.
[The introductory text to the catalogue "To the Museums of Bologna" describes the restitution to Italy of the 'targa ovata', a 16th century parade shield, see "Spoils of War", no. 3, P. 62-63.]


KOREA

Baek, Choong-hyun. International Legal Instruments on Restitution of Cultural Prorerty Illicily Removed and Exported out of a Country // Law of Seoul National University. Vol. 30: No. 3-4 (1989) Pp. 37-64 (Seoul: Seoul National University).
[In Korean]

Jeong, Soon-hoon. Plunder of the Korean Cultural Property by Japanese Imperialism and Recommendation for the Solution // Research of Social Sciences. Vol. 12. (1995) Pp. 129-173.
[In Korean]

Jeong, Young-ho. Plunder and Destruction of the Korean Cultural Property by Japanese Imperialism // The Patriotic Martyrdom. May 1994. Pp. 15-22.
[In Korean]

Lee, Ki-baik. A New History of Korea. Seoul 1995.
[In Korean]

Office of Cultural Properties, The Republic of Korea. The Seminar and Review of the Cultural Property Policy of Japanese Imperialism. Seoul 1996.
[In Korean]

Park, Seon-soo. Things that the Cultural Plunder of Japanese Imperialism Has Left // The Patriotic Martyrdom. May 1994. Pp. 31-36.
[In Korean]

Society for the Study of Korean History. Seoul 1992.
[In Korean]

Yi, Goo-yeol. Suffering History of the Korean Cultural Ptoperty. Seoul 1996.
[In Korean]

Yoon, Byeong-tae. Bibliographical Study on the Books and Archives Returne from Japan // Bibliographical Research. Vol. 8. 1992. Pp. 207-304.
[In Korean]


LITHUANIA

Fishman, David E. Dem Feuer entrissen. Die Rettung jüischer Kulturschätze in Wilna. Hannover 1998. (ISBN 3-931614-97-2).
[Overview of the rescue and recovery of the YIVO Institute's pre-1939 collections. German edition of Embers Plucked from the Fire: The Rescue of Jewish Cultures Treasures in Vilna, New York 1996.]


NORWAY

Reisel, Berit, Bruland, Bjarte. The Reisel/Bruland Report on the Cofiscation of Jewish Property in Norway during World War II. Part of Official Norwegian Report 1997. No. June 22, 1997.
[125 pages, includes copies of documents and reports from the years 1942-1947.]


POLAND

Bailey, Martin. War Booty - Where is this Raphael? // The Art Newspaper. Vol. 8. No. 78. February, 1998. P. 3.
[About the Czartoryski Raphael Stolen from Krakow's Czartoryski Museum in 1945, now thought to be in Bavaria.]

Kuhnke, Monika. Apollo i dwie Muzy - szczesliwy powrót z Pawlowska // Cenne, bezcenne/utracone [valuable, priceless/lost]. Vol. 6. December 1997. Pp. 18-19.
["Apollo and the Two Muses". On the return of the painting of Pompeo Batoni to Poland.]

Kuhnke, Monika. Katalog Grabiezy. Sichergestellte Kunstwerke im Genera; Gouvernment - niemiecki katalog dziel sztuki "zabezpieczony" w Generalnej Guberni. // Cnne, bezcenne/utracone [valuable, priceless/lost]. Vol. 6. December 1997. Pp. 24-26.
["Catalogue of Plunder. Artworks taken into Possession in the General Government".]


RUSSIA

Freitag, Gabriele, Grenzer, Andreas. Der deutsche Umgang mit sowjetischem Kulturgut während des Zweiten Weltkrieges: Ein Aspekt nationalsozialistischer Besatzungspolitik // Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. No. 45. 1997. Pp. 237-272.
["The German Treatment of Soviet Cultural Property during the Second World War. An Aspect of the National Socialist Occupation Policy".]

Eichwede, Wolfgang, Hartung, Ulrike. Sowjetische Kulturverluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Zahlen, Odysseen und Rätsel // Osteuropa. No. 3. 1998. Pp. 225-238.
["Soviet Cultural Property Losses during World War II. Figures, Odysseys, Mysteries" gives a short overview of the confiscations by different Nazi organizations, the recovery in the German depots by U.S. troups, the restitutions to the Soviet Union, the handling of Soviet missions of their own treasures and the problem to research the actual figures of the losses.]

Grenzer, Andreas. Die Evakuierung von sowjetischen Kulturgütern im Zweiten Weltkrieg // Osteuropa. No. 9. 1997. Pp. 922-931/
["The Evacuation of Soviet Cultural Property during the Second World War".]

Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. Archives of Russia Five Years After: Purveyors of Sensations or Shadows of the Past? // IISG Research Papers. No. 26. (ISSN 0927-4618).
[Copies may be ordered from the International Institute for Social History (IISG). Marcel van der Linden. Cruquiusweg 3 1. NL-1019 AT Amsterdam. The Netherlands.]

The State Library for Foreign Literature (Founder Margarita Rudomino) 1922-1997. Moscow 1997.


THE NETHERLANDS

Herkomst gezocht. Rapport van het proefonderzoek naar de herkomst van de onder beheer van het Rijk gebleven uit Duitsland gerecupereerde Kunstwerken. Publicatie van de Commissie-Ekkart. April 1998. (ISBN 90 346 35635).
["Origins Unknown. Report on the Pilot Study into the Provenance of Works of Art Recovered from Germany and Currently under the Custodianship of the State of the Netherlands." Publication of the Ekkart Committee. Copies of the Dutch editon (Hfl. 22,50) may be ordered from the publisher: Sdu-Servicecentrum, P.O. Box 20014, NL-2500 EA The Hague; phone +31 70 378 98 30, fax +31 70 378 97 83.]


UKRAINE

Korenjuk, Jurij, Kot, Sergei. Rosija povinna povernut' Ukraini cinnosti z Michajlivs'kogo Zolotoverchogo soboru v Kievi // Stopicja. No. 11. 1997. Pp. 6-9.
["Russia has to Return Cultural Values to the Ukraine from the Michajlivskij Zolotoverchij Cathedral in Kiev".]


USA

D'Arcy, David. U.S. Museums Deny Holding War Loot. Museum Directors Summoned Before the House of Representatives // The Art Newspaper. Vol. 9. No. 79. March, 1998. Pp. 6-7.

Hochfield, Sylvia. International News. Do the Right Thing // ARTnews. Vol. 97. No. 2. P. 66.
[About the Commission of Art Recovery, the Holocaust Art Restitution Project and the International Research Center for the Documentation of Wartime Losses.]

Hochfield, Sylvia. ARTNews National. New York - Museum Directors: Raised Consciousness // ARTnews. Vol. 87. No. 4. April 1998. P. 51.
[About the two paintings from Vienna by Schiele held at the Museum of Modern Art and the search for nazi confiscated art in the collections often Austrian museums.]

Lufkin, Martha. Top U.S. Museums Fight Subpoena of Schiele Paintings the Paintings from Vienna Said to have Been Looted by the Nazis // The Art Newspaper. Vol. 9. No. 79. March 1998. P. 6.

Lufkin, Martha. Point of Law. What is Due Diligence? And : How to be Duly Giligent // The Art Newspaper. Vol. 9. No. 79. March 1998. P. 7.

Tully, Judd. Vanished Art, Vivid Memories // ARTnews. Vol. 97. No. 1. January 1998. Pp. 96-99.
[About the art works missing from the Gutmann Family and their efforts to recover them.]

Thornes, Robin. Protecting Cultural Objects in the Global Information Society. The Making of Object ID, Los Angeles 1997.
[Presentation of The Getty Information Institute's project to develop an international standard of object identification for cases ofartloss and theft for the global information society.]