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Recovery helps to recover objects that were looted during the Nazi regime and
increase public awareness about this subject.
Holocaust-era
looted art is an important issue for people searching for lost items, museums
and the art trade. Sage Recovery can help those investigating this subject. Our
services include:
Research
and recovery of looted art for both individuals and institutions
Sage Recovery works with families, museums and government agencies to help find
and recover objects that were looted during World War II and to trace the provenance
of objects with gaps in their ownership history. Digitisation
of records pertaining to Nazi looting
There
is an overwhelming amount of information about Nazi looting, but records are scattered
all over the world and not everyone has access to them. Digitising these records
and posting them online will help to ensure that they are widely available.We
have recently made the OSS ALIU 'Red
Flag' list of organisations active in the art trade under the Nazis available
online. Education
and awareness of Nazi spoliation
Sage Recovery
promotes awareness of this issue by providing background information, relevant
publications and online resources. In addition to posting
information about essential resources, Sage will also keep you up to date by listing
the latest news stories about Nazi looted art. View
Shauna Isaac's blog on
Nazi looting.
| Featured Artwork | | Gustave Klimt , Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I , 1907 |
 The famous portrait was recently restituted to the family of Adele Bloch-Bauer. The painting was looted by the Nazis and after the war, it resided in the Belvedere
Museum in Vienna. For several years, Adele's neice Maria Altmann and her family fought to reclaim
the painting.
It was finally restituted to the family in January 2006. It was
then bought by Ronald Lauder for the Neue Gallery in New York for an estimated $135 million
- the highest price ever paid for a painting at the time.
Find
out more about the circumstances
of looting surrounding this painting and the efforts to recover it.
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