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Dallas Morning News
Dallas author, philanthropist passes baton to new Monuments Men and Women program
August 12, 2022 - A new generation of Monuments Men and Women, who restored artifacts stolen by Nazis in World War II, is taking its place in the military as the first class of curators, archaeologists and more was sworn in Friday.
SWR Aktuell
Beutekunst: Museum Ulm bekommt Berblinger-Statue aus den USA
July 28, 2022 - Die US-Initiative "Monuments Men and Women Foundation" recherchiert seit zehn Jahren, um ursprüngliche Besitzer von Kunstwerken zu finden. Auch das Museum Ulm profitiert davon.
KHOU*11
Museum of Fine Arts Houston locked in legal battle over Bernardo Bellotto painting
A fight over a piece of 18th-century art has landed the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in federal court. MFAH wants to hold onto the paintings. The people trying to take it are the grandsons of a German businessman who they say sold the art to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's dealer under duress. ...
EuroNews
Playing cards offer $25,000 for information on the priceless lost art of World War II
Art history buffs, eagle-eyed collectors, antiquities experts and members of the public at large are being invited to join the global hunt for a treasure trove of artworks still missing since World War II, with cash rewards of up to $25,000 for useful information. The buy-in is a single deck of cards. ...
AP News
Monuments Men group bets on playing cards to find lost art
March 23, 2022 - A group dedicated to finishing the work of World War II’s Monuments Men is betting on a deck of playing cards — and reward money — to help find missing works of art taken by the Nazis.. ...
Artnet News
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Must End Its Head-in-the-Sand Approach to Justice When It Comes to Restitution
August 31, 2021 - The head of the Monuments Men Foundation on the pain-staking research into the real history behind a Bellotto painting at the MFAH. ..
Artnet News
Restitution Experts Blast Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts for Refusing to Return a Painting Once Purchased for Hitler’s Museum
August 18, 2021 - The Monuments Men Foundation is squaring off against the MFAH in the court of public opinion ...
The New York Times
What Constitutes Art Sales Under Duress? A Dispute Reignites the Question
The New York Times
August 17, 2021 - A fight over a landscape painting bought for Hitler is focused on the question of whether its sale was voluntary or forced by economic distress the Nazis helped create. ...
The New York Times
Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite, 92, Last of the ‘Monuments Women,’ Dies
May 8, 2020 - An American who was sent to Japan after Pearl Harbor, she was one of 345 people from 14 countries who helped preserve cultural treasures. ...
Corriere della Sera
Anna Bottinelli, un’italiana alla guida dei «Monuments Men»: i cacciatori delle opere trafugate dai nazisti
November 28, 2019 - Fiorentina, 32 anni, un curriculum accademico di primo piano, andrà a dirigere la Fondazione, con sede a Dallas, resa celebre dal film di Clooney. «Entusiasta dell’incarico» ...
The New York Times
75 Years After World War II Theft, a Painting Returns to Italy
July 19, 2019 - Compared to showier works in Florence’s Pitti Palace — paintings by Caravaggio, Raphael, and Titian — the small “Vase of Flowers” by Jan van Huysum might barely earn a second glance ...
The Telgraph
Monuments Men Foundation returns historic paintings won in poker game to Germany
May 6, 2015 - Three historic paintings won by an American tank commander during Second World War returned to rightful owners in Germany ...
CBS News
"Monuments Men" receive monumental honor from Congress
October 22, 2015 - Congress gave its highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, to 345 unsung heroes of World War II on Thursday. ...
The New York Times
Returning the Spoils of World War II, Taken by Americans
May 5, 2015 - As the Allies stormed through Germany in 1945, museum officials in Dessau scurried to hide their art treasures in a nearby salt mine, where they would soon be discovered by American soldiers. ...
NBC News
'Monuments Men' Bill Passes House and Senate
February 6, 2014 - After 70 years in near obscurity, the men and women who worked to preserve cultural artifacts during World War II, nicknamed the “Monuments Men,” will be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. ...
The New York Times
Not All Monuments Men Were Men
January 29, 2014 - In February 1952, as Europe rebuilt after World War II, Ardelia Ripley Hall arrived in Bonn, Germany, to play her part in a bold American military mission that had begun about a decade earlier. ...
USA Today
G.I.'s family returns World War II antiquities to Italy
May 29, 2013 - Antique books by Isaac Newton and other historical figures, lifted from an Italian church by a G.I. during World War II, were returned in a ceremony at the Italian Embassy ...
The New York Times
Treasure Hunters in Uniform: ‘Monuments Men’ Remembered
February 20, 2013 - We don’t tend to think of World War II as a setting for one of history’s biggest art thefts. Now some veterans of that war are being honored for recovering some of the most famous – and not so famous – art of the Western world: ...
AP News
Photo albums related to Nazi art theft unveiled by Monuments Men Foundation
February 27, 2012 - Two albums documenting works of art and furniture stolen by the Nazis during World War II were unveiled Tuesday after being discovered by a Dallas-based foundation ...
The Wrap
George Clooney to Direct, Star in ‘Monuments Men’
January 8, 2012 - George Clooney has started to work on his next project, writing, directing and starring in a big-budget movie about the men who chased down the stolen art of Europe during World War II...
McClatchy DC
Was Fort Worth museum's statue hiding sordid sales history?
July 3, 2011 - For a museum director, receiving a call from Robert Edsel is like getting a call from the Internal Revenue Service for the rest of us. It stimulates the gastric juices as the mind whirls, "OMG, what now?" ...
NBC News
Lost WWII Eisenhower speech found at Met
April 11, 2011 - As commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II, U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower explicitly ordered his troops to safeguard objects of cultural and historical importance...
WFAA
Art stolen by Hitler discovered at SMU museum
May 16, 2010 - The university is working with international art experts to confirm its belief that it is the legitimate owner of two portraits known to have once been part of a vast Nazi collection. ...
The New York Times
In His Bags, Spoils of a War and Stories of Heroism
January 25, 2010 - SEVERAL years ago, I started a foundation called Monuments Men. It’s dedicated to some unknown heroes who made a huge difference in World War II. ...
CBS News
WWII Vet Displays Hitler's Photo Album
December 9, 2009 - After fighting his way across Europe during World War II, John Pistone was among the U.S. soldiers who entered Adolf Hitler's home nestled in the Bavarian Alps as the war came to a close. ...