Many valuable paintings have been
stolen. The paintings listed are from masters of
Western art which are valued in millions of
U.S. dollars.
Unrecovered
Rumored to be destroyed or lost
Plundered by the Nazis
Recovered
See also
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Art Recovery Group
Art Recovery International (previously Art Recovery Group) is a private company that provides due diligence, dispute resolution and art recovery services to the international art market and cultural heritage institutions. It is headquartered in Ve ...
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Art theft
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Commission for Looted Art in Europe
The Commission for Looted Art in Europe is a non-profit organization, that researches looted art, and helps formulate restitution policy, for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.
It was organized in 1999. Anne Webber, and David Lewis ar ...
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Looted art
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Lost artworks
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Monuments Men
A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, hist ...
— Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program
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Nazi plunder
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Gurlitt Collection, around 1500 works amassed by
Hildebrand Gurlitt
References
External links
FBI: Art TheftArt and Antiques Unit – New Scotland YardThe Art Loss Register
The world's largest database of stolen art
Stolen Masterpieces - Famous Stolen Oil Paintings
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{{Art and World War II
Stolen paintings
Stolen paintings