An art lawyer in New York is excited by a recent ruling in a Dutch case on art looted by the Nazis that will finally be returned to a Jewish family.
A New York art lawyer said a recent decision in The Netherlands to return works of art held in Dutch museums to the descendants of a Jewish collector who sold them under Nazi occupation has"enormous precedential value" that could influence similar cases in the U.S.
The two Lierens-owned paintings are by the 17th-century artists Dirck Franchoisz Hals and Dirck van Delen, and are currently in the possession of the Dutch government which has them on display at public museums. They were sold by Lierens at auction in October 1941. 5/22/45-Fussen, Germany: While a lieutenant checks his list in the background, 7th army soldiers carry three valuable paintings down the steps of Neuschwanstein Castle at Fussen, Germany, where they were a part of the collection looted by the Nazis from conquered countries.The ruling was in keeping with the two fundamental values of The Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, those of justice and fairness.
Van den Bergh said many countries pay lip service to The Washington Principles but do nothing to uphold them in practice and sometimes even contradict them. He gave an example of a museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, where a client has a claim. Artal said the only way of wrapping up these issues justly, especially under the pressure of time moving us further away from the Holocaust, is comprehensive legislation by governments that forces courts to treat such cases uniformly.
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