The Tel Aviv Museum of Art Will Restitute Two 17th-Century Tapestries of Moses Looted by the Nazis in the 1930s
ner Tageblatt—before being seized by the Nazis in the early 1930s. A spokesperson from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art did not provide a specific time frame for the tapestries’ return, but says the institution is finalizing the details of the arrangement now. “Restitution is an ethical and professional obligation,” Tania Coen-Uzielli, director of the museum, said in a statement to Artnet News. “In recent years, the study of the provenance of works of art has become a major concern of museums around the world. Museums allocate major resources to provenance research, which is significant f...
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