Cultural Heritage Preservation Lawyers' Committee Fellow Jan Felman on the Cancellation of The Max Stern Düsseldorf to Montreal Art Exhibition

To learn more, please visit the websites for the Max Stern Restitution Project, the HEAR Act, the Second Circuit's decision in Zuckerman v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Zurückgeben Foundation.<br/><br/>Show Notes:<br/>1:30 Max Stern Art Restitution Project <br/>2:30 Dr. Max Stern<br/>5:00 Stern’s restitution efforts<br/>8:00 Cancellation of The Max Stern Düsseldorf to Montreal Art Exhibition<br/>9:50 Sales under duress<br/>10:15 Auctions at cut-rate prices as an encouragement to the German people<br/>13:15 Rug in the office of Angela Merkel <br/>14:20 Russian exhibition of looted German objects<br/>16:00 German Lost Art Foundation <br/>17:00 Mosse Art Research Initiative - partly funded by German Lost Art Foundation<br/>18:10 Thieves able to give good title under German law<br/>20:40 Hilde Schramm - German politician for Alliance 90/The Greens, daughter of  German architect/Nazi Party official Albert Speer<br/>21:20 The Zurückgeben Foundation - organization started by Schramm<br/>21:45 City of Linberg, Germany honored Jewish family whose objects were looted <br/>22:45 family donated looted objects back <br/>23:20 Holocaust Expropriation Art Recovery (HEAR) Act <br/>24:40 Second Circuit decision in Zuckerman v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art<br/>25:00 Doctrine of Laches<br/>27:40 New focus of research on difficulty of being honest about genocide restitution<br/>28:30 Theft of works from Ukrainian museums<br/>33:20 Dehumanization as part of genocide<br/>34:00 Denial of wrongs committed in genocide<br/>35:00 Russia’s prior theft of Ukrainian cultural heritage<br/>35:20 World’s tolerance / denial of genocide<br/>36:20 Need for empathy<br/>36:30 What is a bystander<br/>36:50 Spain’s policy as an allegedly neutral party during WWII<br/>38:00 Concept of justice<br/>38:45 Andrew Smith - The Met’s reasoning <br/>40:45 British Museum’s policy that Elgin Marbles are part of UK heritage<br/>42:40 HEAR Act’s legislative intent ignored by the Court<br/>43:45 Picasso’s The Actor was a gift to the Met<br/>44:20 Vienna case of looted Kokoschka painting restituted in 2015 by Belvedere Museum <br/>46:30 Alan Robertshaw - neutral area that serviced U boats<br/>47:20 Alan Robertshaw - 1995 abolishment of UK’s market overt - English legal concept from mediaeval times that allowed subsequent ownership of stolen goods<br/><br/><br/>Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com<br/><br/>To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.<br/><br/>To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.<br/><br/>To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com. <br/><br/>Thanks so much for listening!<br/><br/>© Stephanie Drawdy [2023]