The Weimar period had seen a flourishing of German art, much of which was abstract ... it could be used to project the power of the Nazi regime. The most important architect of the period was ...

One of the most sensational escapes from the Nazis in World War II has been made by a leading French abstract painter who comes from a long line of French soldiers and whose great-grandfather ...

The goblet originally belonged to Emma Budge, a wealthy Jewish socialite, philanthropist and art-lover from Hamburg. It was part of an impressive collection forcibly auctioned off by the Nazis in ...

But at the end of the war, with Nazi Germany in ruins, expert teams from the Red Army seized more than two and a half million art objects, some 12 million books and miles of archives. Among them ...

For 11 of the works, "there was no evidence or proof of Nazi-looted art at the end of the project, or such a connection could be ruled out", the museum said in a statement. The remaining two were ...