Language:
English
Pages:
17 Seiten
Year of publication:
2004
Series Statement:
House of Commons papers 10
Series Statement:
House of Commons papers
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Kunstraub
;
Restitution (Kulturpolitik)
Abstract:
This report examines the case for the return of a painting, now in the possession of Glasgow City Council, and claimed by the heirs of five former Jewish shareholders of an art gallery in Munich. The painting, known as Still Life, and attributed to the artist Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin, was donated to the Corporation of the City of Glasgow (the Council's predecessor), along with 696 pictures, and 8,000 other items of art by Sir William Burrell in 1944. The claimants contend that the five former shareholders lost possession due to a forced sale, in 1936, when Germany was under Nazi rule. The Advisory Panel found that the claimants had made a sufficiently robust moral case for a return of the picture, and the Panel believes that a fair solution is the restitution of the picture to the claimants.
