Nazi-looted art and its legacies

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This issue examines the legacy of Nazi-looted art in light of the 2012 discovery of the famous Hildebrand Gurlitt collection of stolen artwork in Germany. When the German government declassified the case almost two years later, the resulting scandal raised fundamental questions about the role of art dealers in the Third Reich, the mechanics of the Nazi black market for artwork, the shortcomings of postwar denazification, the failure of courts and governments to adjudicate stolen artwork claims, and the unwillingness of museums to determine the provenance of thousands of looted pieces of art. The contributors to this issue explore the continuities of art dealerships and auction houses from the Nazi period to the Federal Republic and take stock of the present political and cultural debate over the handling of this artwork.

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Nazi-looted art and its legacies: introduction / Andreas Huyssen, Anson Rabinbach, and Avinoam Shalem -- From "degenerate art" to "looted art": developments and consequences of national socialist cultural policy / Olaf Peters -- Hildebrand Gurlitt and his dealings with German museums during the "Third Reich" / Meike Hoffmann -- Have German restitution politics been advanced since the Gurlitt case? A journalist's perspective / Julia Voss -- Restitution as diagnosis: political aspects of the "trophy art" problem and Russian-German relations / Konstantin Akinsha -- A Persian tapestry looted by the Nazis from the Princes Czartoryski Museum, Kraków / Amy Walsh -- The restitution of Nazi-looted art and other cultural property: have we gone too far or not far enough? / Lawrence M. Kaye -- Five uncomfortable and difficult topics relating to the restitution of Nazi-looted art / Jonathan Petropoulos -- The end of art and the future of criticism in Wilhelm Worringer's art history / Malika Maskarinec -- Hermann Glöckner: waste as a figure of thought? / Sarah E. James -- Instant selves: algorithmic autobiographies on social network sites / Roberto Simanowski.