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Returning Nazi-looted art to its rightful owners [1]
['Noelani Kirschner']
Date: 2025-04-22 21:49:16+00:00
Eighty years ago, Ardelia Hall found herself, through luck and hard work, the fine arts and monuments adviser at the U.S. Department of State.
It was there that she helped — for almost 20 years after World War II — to return stolen European paintings to their rightful owners. By the end of her career in 1964, the department had helped to return 4,000 pieces of art to 14 countries.
To this day, the State Department continues the late Hall’s art-restitution work.
“One of the things that we’re working on right now is encouraging countries to endorse what are called the ‘best practices’ of the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, basically principles that museums, galleries, governments can use to try and do the right thing in identifying works of art, doing provenance research, finding out their history,” says Ellen Germain, U.S. special envoy for Holocaust issues.
Read more about Hall’s work as one of the Monuments Men and Women.
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