The museum launched a campaign this summer to track down nearly 400 works looted during World War II. It created “Wanted” posters with images of lost art, plastering them in and around the city of Orléans and flooding the internet. Now, the first case has been solved.
An amateur sleuth in France discovered one of the looted paintings last month in Switzerland, as it was set for sale. Now instead of being put up for auction, “The Drinker,” a 17th-century work by the Dutch artist Willem Cornelisz Duyster, will soon be returned to Orléans.
How many rich assholes know they have stolen art and just don’t care?
Most.
Can somebody enlighten me on the property laws surrounding this?
Let’s assume someone inherited that painting some decades ago. They have almost a hundred years of proved ownership of it. But before that it was stolen. When does the original owner fully loose the property rights?
When the original owner isn’t a nation with a permanent seat in the UN
why do countries deserve any property rights?
So you’re cool with Israel stealing land in Palestine, right?
After all, why does Palestine deserve property rights?
It’s less about deserve and more about holding a monopoly on enforcement
Lol, the idea of France of all places complaining about looted art.
