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"Art Restitution Challenges and Outlook: A View from the Trenches”
Thursday, February 6, 2025 4pm to 5pm
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Lecture presented by Marc Masurovsky, who co-founded the Holocaust Art Restitution Project (HARP) in September 1997 and served as its Director of Research. Since 1980 he has examined the general question of assets looted during the Nazi era. He worked as an expert historian on a class-action lawsuit filed by Jewish claimants against three leading Swiss banks, accusing them of having expropriated the property that their families had deposited in their safes and bank accounts. As a consultant and historian for the Department of Justice's Office of Special Investigations, he investigated alleged Nazi war criminals living in the U.S. and post-war relations between former Nazi officials and Allied intelligence agencies. Mr. Masurovsky earned his M.A. in Modern European History from American University in Washington, D.C. For his Master's thesis, he researched "Operation Safehaven: the Allied response to Nazi post-defeat planning, 1944-1948". He is the co-author with Fabrizio Calvi of Le Festin du Reich (Editions Fayard, 2006).
This event is being presented free of charge, but registration is requested via this link.
Image caption: Amedeo Modigliani (or Chaim Soutine), Frau mit Brot (Women with Bread), date unknown. Oil on wood. From the Raoul Meyer Collection. Current location unknown. Photo taken from Bundesarchiv, B323/278
Location
Erik Jonsson Academic Center (JO), 4.102
800 W. Campbell Road, Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
Department
- Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History, Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, The Ackerman Center
Contact Information
- Cynthia Seton-Rogers
- 972-883-2724
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