Ethical Implications of World War II Stolen Art - This Friday At The Toledo College of Law

This seminar will give attendees an overview about art looting during the Second World War and how sales of stolen works
bankrolled large parts of the Nazi war machine.  Attendees will also learn about laws that were passed in the wake of the
looting, to return stolen art to its rightful owners, and the extent to which those laws have been successful.

Co-Sponsored by The University of Toledo College of Law, Federal Bar Association and the Toledo Bar Association.

Date: September 19, 2014
Where:University of Toledo College of Law
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Credit Hours: 1.5 Professional Conduct
Fees: TBA Member $25 / Non-Member $30

	Friday, September 19, 2014
Address:	University of Toledo College of Law McQuade Auditorium 2801 W. Bancroft Street Toledo, OH 43606
Directions:	Park in Law School lot, cars will not be ticketed More information and brochure here.

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George Grosz: Cultural Enemy Number One of Hitler and the MoMA - Tomorrow Night National Arts Club!

National Arts Club - 15 Gramercy Park South NYC




Wednesday, April 30, 8:00 PM
a Roundtable / Young Members event

George Grosz, Cultural Enemy Number One of the Nazis: A Legacy in Art and Law

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George Grosz was tried twice in Germany for his art, once for blasphemy (for his work “Shut Your Mouth and Keep On Serving”) and once for slandering the Prussian military (for his work “Fit for Active Service”). Declared Cultural Enemy Number One by the Nazis, Grosz was physically attacked, and escaped Germany in January 1933, just before Adolf Hitler burned the Reichstag and seized power. Prior to his escape, many of Grosz’s satirical works were banned, ordered to be destroyed, or both. From 1933 to the early 1950s, Grosz taught painting in New York City, primarily at the Art Students League. Grosz rejected abstract expressionism, making him a cultural enemy of the Museum of Modern Art.
   Decades later, from 2003 to 2011, litigation reaching the U.S. Supreme Court mapped out the tortured cultural legacy he left behind, and shook the underpinnings of the MoMA. Although Grosz, who fought for Germany in World War I, was originally associated with Dadaism, his artwork is now commonly referred to as part of the New Objectivity movement, a post-war movement in which veterans of World War I communicated the horror, destruction, and trauma of war.
   Art attorneys Ray Dowd, David Rowland, and Pati Hertling will engage in a discussion about Grosz and his legacy in law and art. NAC Governor Sam Madden will moderate; a Q&A session will follow the discussion.

More information on the National Arts Club website http://www.nationalartsclub.org/Default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=337091&ssid=235591&vnf=1






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Art Law: Stolen Art Panel Tomorrow Night At Fordham Law

The Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal and the Fordham Art Law Society Present:

Defining Cultural Ownership: Shifting Focus, Shifting Norms

In this panel discussion, attorneys whose practices focus on art law will speak on issues of repatriation and restitution -- specifically, how the legal process of returning looted works of art to their countries of origin is informed by the works' genre and surrounding cultural norms. The discussion will follow the legal system's treatment of looted art from various eras, including Antiquity, the Second World War, and the more recent Cuban Revolution.

Agenda:

7:30 - 7:45
Registration

7:45 - 7:55
Welcome remarks & introduction

7:55 - 8:10
Evan Barr, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLP

8:10 - 8:25
Raymond Dowd, Partner, Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP

8:25 - 8:40
Mari-Claudia Jimenez, Associate, Herrick Feinstein LLP

8:40 - 9:10
Moderated Q&A

Moderator:
Leila Amineddoleh
Of Counsel and Chair of the Art Law Group, Lombard & Geliebter LLP; Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation; and Adjunct Professor, Fordham University School of Law

Registration:

This program is free and open to the public

CLE Credits: 1.5 Non-transitional & transitional, Professional Practice NYS CLE Credits are available for $50 ($35 for Fordham Law alumni and public interest attorneys)

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!


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EDNY World War II Veteran Judges Honored - December 5

 

Join The Federal Bar Association Eastern District

Of New York Chapter, Wednesday, December 5,
2012 At 6:00 PM To10:00 PM
As We Honor The WWII Veteran Judges Of The EDNYHONORABLE I. LEO GLASSER HONORABLE THOMAS C. PLATTHONORABLE ARTHUR D. SPATT HONORABLE JACK B. WEINSTEIN
HONORABLE LEONARD D. WEXLERYou are cordially invited to enjoy an evening of Buffet Dining

and

Entertainment as we recognize and celebrate the lives

and careers of five of our unique and outstanding Jurists –

The WWII Veteran Judges Of The EDNY

WHEN:
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm

WHERE:

American Airpower Museum at Republic Airport

1230 New Highway
Farmingdale, NY 11735

 

RSVP:

Please complete and return the enclosed Registration 

Form and Commemorative Journal Congratulations Submission (ifapplicable) by

Monday, November 19, 2012, to:Rob Rando, EDNY WWII Veteran Judges Program Chair

Email

Rrando@randolawfirm.com or

 

Fax

(516) 799-9820
 

For additional information please contact Rob Rando at (516) 799-9800

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Declassified Swiss Government Report Shows Traffic of Nazi Looted Art To Museum of Modern Art (Updated)

Link to image in St. Louis Commerce, full article here

A declassified Swiss government report written by former Pulitzer Foundation director Laurie Stein shows that Nazi looted art passed through Switzerland to arrive at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

As set forth in Laurie Stein's report, Curt Valentin, August Klipstein, and Karl Buchholz were key players in this traffic with Alfred Barr.   MoMA has "the highest concentration of degenerate art from Germany"..... Alfred Barr "did not shy away from buying confiscated art through American-based commercial dealers such as [Curt] Valentin."  (pp 11-12).

Hitler's Swiss Dealer - August Klipstein of Gutekunst & Klipstein, now Galerie Kornfeld

Laurie Stein just chaired a panel in Vienna on Alfred Flechtheim, one of the Weimar Republic's leading art dealers whose gallery was Aryanized by SA officer Alexander Voemel shortly after Hitler took power in 1933.   More on Alfred Flechtheim here, Picasso's Jewish Dealer here, Flechtheim's Nose here, Amicus brief in Grosz v MoMA here, Flechtheim's Portrait By Belling here, Museum directors should be prosecuted for concealing stolen art here .

American museums continue to resist inquiries into the stolen works in their collections.

For more, read below.
Stein Pyritz - Swiss Government Report



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