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For those wondering how and why the wealthy can acquire these types of clearly stolen property, theres a great report with associated podcast dicing into all th
by dtien 9y ago
For those wondering how and why the wealthy can acquire these types of clearly stolen property, theres a great report with associated podcast dicing into all the machinations and legal wranglings surrounding a piece of art that was stolen by the nazis.
For the most part the legal maneuvers likely would have stalled out if not for the leaking of the Panama Papers years ago which shed light on who owned which shell companies, and how, etc.
Heres the short version of the article, theres also a more in depth podcast:
https://www.npr.org/2016/04/12/473856459/panama-papers-provide-rare-glimpse-inside-famously-opaque-art-market https://www.npr.org/2016/04/12/473856459/panama-papers-provi...
- forapurpose 9y agoPlenty of museums contain stolen works. Consider all the artifacts from other countries and art stolen during war. There was a film recently about a family trying to recover art they owned, displayed openly in a museum, that was stolen by the Nazis.
- tryingagainbro 9y agoComplicated. UK for example claims to have gotten permission from the Ottoman Turks to take a lot of stuff from Greece. At that time, Turks were the legit rulers, as Greece didn;t exist, so are they stolen? Also, many time the Nazis officially or unofficially (ruling elites in city) "bought" them from Jewish owners. We can guess the price "agreed" to in those times.