During the second world war, the Abwehr, the German intelligence service, was known for having spies all over the world. When ...

Consider Supporting HoH: In 1946, the second world war had just ended, a Dutch artist and art collector stood trial in Amsterdam. His charge? Collaboration, for selling cherished cultural heritage to ...

The year 1937 is haunting the culture news just now. That is, the “Degenerate Art Show” comes up a lot. “It’s classic ...

LACMA is being gifted more than 100 works of Austrian Expressionism, including its first paintings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, by the family of the legendary Viennese art dealer Otto Kallir.

LACMA is being gifted more than 100 works of Austrian Expressionism, including its first paintings by Gustav Klimt and Egon ...

Through years of research, AI-assisted photographic analysis, and archival images supplied by a distant relative, German ...

A spectral island, a lone white figure, and a drifting coffin—Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead (1880–1886) became an enduring ...

Andy Friend’s Comrades in Art is a remarkable excavation of a decade when British art and politics collided with an ...

A new book on the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz focuses on music that was sanctioned by the SS and used for sadistic ...

Paintings coveted by Nazi leaders were taken from a Jewish family in Paris in 1943. They were last seen — until now — at ...

Paintings coveted by Nazi leaders were taken from a Jewish family in Paris in 1943. They were last seen — until now — at Hitler's offices in Munich.

Two 17th-century paintings stolen by the Nazis during WWII have been discovered at an Ohio auction house. The artworks, believed to be by Dutch artist Ambrosius Bosschaert, were seized from a Jewish ...