Returning Art
Updated on 09 August 2006
Hundreds of priceless works of art stolen by the Nazis are returned - but at what cost to the museums who kept them for so long?
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By the time he fled his native Holland after the Nazi invasion, Jacques Goudstikker was the pre-eminent art dealer in the Netherlands, if not Europe.
His collection, housed in an Amsterdam gallery, was known throughout the world. During the war, the senior Nazi Hermann Goering visited the gallery and helped himself.
But Goudstikker had kept a detailed inventory of his paintings and after years of detective work, 200 of them are being returned to his American descendants. Our arts correspondent Nicholas Glass has been talking to them.
