http://www.sagerecovery.com/blog Comments on looted art issues Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:48:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was really excited to meet Madeleine Albright at the Prague Conference. I don’t usually get star struck, especially since I live in London and see famous people all the time. Heck, even our DOG walks with dogs of famous actors and fashion designers. As a puppy, he met ... http://www.sagerecovery.com/blog/?p=13   “The Nazis stole not only the wealth from the wealthy, but the poverty from the poor” - Elie Wiesel at the opening ceremony at the Prague Conference on Holocaust Era Assets   There was a lot of pomp and circumstance at the Prague Conference. Plenty of important dignitaries made grand statements, and the ... http://www.sagerecovery.com/blog/?p=12 I’m putting the finishing touches on my presentation for the Prague Conference on Holocaust Era Assets. It promises to be a very exciting event and I hope that we will make more progress towards helping families who were victims of the Holocaust. I’m apprehensive about signing the final declaration in Terezin. ... http://www.sagerecovery.com/blog/?p=11 One of my client's paintings was discovered at an upcoming sale at the Dorotheum. It's entitled In the Wine Cellar by Domenico Pennacchini (1860 - 1910). As soon as I informed the Dorotheum, they were unbelievably helpful. They researched this painting and found that it had gone through the Dorotheum ... http://www.sagerecovery.com/blog/?p=7 After two years of investigation, the Heast Castle in California returned two paintings to the family of Jakob and Rosa Oppenheimer. They were German Jews who were forced to sell paintings in a liquidation auction of their Berlin gallery. This marks 25th restitution in the USA since the issue of Nazi ... http://www.sagerecovery.com/blog/?p=6 One of the reasons for doing so is that I have been working in this field for several years and my specialty is about using technology to find looted art. If I'm supposed to be at the forefront of technology, I should embrace all aspects of Web 2.0, including blogging. There ... http://www.sagerecovery.com/blog/?p=4