Glance at Culture - Cultural Heritage Preservation Lawyers' Committee Fellow Jan Felman on the Cancellation of The Max Stern Düsseldorf to Montreal Art Exhibition

Warfare of Art & Law Podcast

Send us a Text Message.

To learn more, please visit the websites for the Max Stern Restitution Project, the HEAR Act, the Second Circuit's decision in Zuckerman v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Zurückgeben Foundation and Almost Lost: the Heinemann Legacy (Before, During, and After the Holocaust).
Show Notes:
1:30 Max Stern Art Restitution Project
2:30 Dr. Max Stern
5:00 Stern’s restitution efforts
8:00 Cancellation of The Max Stern Düsseldorf to Montreal Art Exhibition
9:50 Sales under duress
10:15 Auctions at cut-rate prices as an encouragement to the German people
13:15 Rug in the office of Angela Merkel
14:20 Russian exhibition of looted German objects
16:00 German Lost Art Foundation
17:00 Mosse Art Research Initiative - partly funded by German Lost Art Foundation
18:10 Thieves able to give good title under German law
20:40 Hilde Schramm - German politician for Alliance 90/The Greens, daughter of German architect/Nazi Party official Albert Speer
21:20 The Zurückgeben Foundation - organization started by Schramm
21:45 City of Lüneburg, Germany honored Jewish Heinemann family whose objects were looted
22:45 Heinemann family donated looted objects back to the Lüneburg Museum
23:20 Holocaust Expropriation Art Recovery (HEAR) Act
24:40 Second Circuit decision in Zuckerman v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
25:00 Doctrine of Laches
27:40 New focus of research on difficulty of being honest about genocide restitution
28:30 Theft of works from Ukrainian museums
33:20 Dehumanization as part of genocide
34:00 Denial of wrongs committed in genocide
35:00 Russia’s prior theft of Ukrainian cultural heritage
35:20 World’s tolerance / denial of genocide
36:20 Need for empathy
36:30 What is a bystander
36:50 Spain’s policy as an allegedly neutral party during WWII
38:00 Concept of justice
38:45 Andrew Smith - The Met’s reasoning
40:45 British Museum’s policy that Elgin Marbles are part of UK heritage
42:40 HEAR Act’s legislative intent ignored by the Court
43:45 Picasso’s The Actor was a gift to the Met
44:20 Vienna case of painting looted from Alma Mahler (Edvard Munch's "Summer Night at the Beach") restituted in 2001 by Belvedere Museum to Mahler's granddaughter, Marina
46:30 Alan Robertshaw - neutral area that serviced U boats
47:20 Alan Robertshaw - 1995 abolishment of UK’s market overt - English legal concept from mediaeval times that allowed subsequent ownership of stolen goods
Please share your comments and/or questions at [e-mail]
To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.
Music by Toulme.
To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.
To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at [e-mail].
Thanks so much for listening!
© Stephanie Drawdy [2024]