Dutch museums identify art stolen by Nazis from Jewish owners

Dutch museums have identified 139 pieces of art, including dozens of paintings - one by Matisse and many by Dutch painters of varying renown such as Impressionist Isaac Israels – as likely to have been taken forcibly from Jewish owners by the Nazis.

The review of Dutch art acquisitions from 1933 on was conducted by the museums themselves and focused explicitly on pieces for which there was any gap in their ownership record during the years that Germany’s Nazi regime was appropriating works from Jews, either by forced sale or outright seizure.