The Commission for Looted Art in Europe is a non-profit organization, that researches looted art, and helps formulate restitution policy, for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.

It was organized in 1999. Anne Webber, and David Lewis are co-chairs.

Commission for Looted Art in Europe

In 2011, they joined with the UK National Archives, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, and German Federal Archives to create a single web portal, of stolen art.

Commission for Looted Art in Europe

Recovery

In 2006 the BBC foreign correspondent Sir Charles Wheeler returned an original Alessandro Allori painting to the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. He had been given it in Germany in 1952, but only recently realized its origin and that it must have been looted in the wake of World War II. The work is possibly a portrait of Eleonora (Dianora) di Toledo de' Medici, niece of Eleonora di Toledo, and measures 12 cm × 16 cm.

Commission for Looted Art in Europe

References

External links

Official website

"Records Relating to Nazi-Era Cultural Property", National Archives and Records Administration http://www.lootedart.com/MKFBUO756241

Art and cultural repatriation

Art crime

Art history

Cultural heritage of Europe

Arts organizations established in 1999

Cultural organisations based in the United Kingdom