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Richmond: Painting by German expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner believed lost or stolen by the Nazis acquired by the VMFA

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The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has acquired a painting by German expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, which was presumed lost or stolen by the Nazis and was recently returned to the original owners.

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Painting by German expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner believed lost or stolen by the Nazis acquired by the VMFA

The Whitney Museum of American Art has acquired Norman Lewis’s American Totem, a 1960 painting by one of the few African Americans associated with the New York School of Abstract Expressionist artists ...

For artist Tran Thi Thu, abstract expressionist painting is a medium in which she can find herself. It’s fitting, then, that her first solo exhibition at the Viet Nam Museum of Fine Arts bears her ...

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Smithsonian Magazine: This Artist Turned to Painting Animals in a Turbulent Historical Moment

Tiger, oil on canvas, 1912. The artist’s vibrant animal paintings were based on careful study, including hours spent observing big cats at the Berlin Zoo. Lenbachhaus Munich, Donation of the Bernhard ...

A legal dispute over ownership of a painting by the German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker could be the final case before a Nazi-looted art commission. A controversial new restitution procedure will ...

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The Abstract Expressionists emerged from obscurity in the late 1940s to establish New York as the centre of the art world – but some say they became pawns of US spies in the Cold War. Alastair Sooke ...