Media Coverage - Guelph Lawsuit
The descendants of Jewish art dealers are seeking the return of a medieval art collection they say was sold under pressure to Nazi officials. The collection was given to Adolf Hitler as a birthday present in 1935 and it is now housed in a Berlin art museum and considered a cultural treasure.
The lawsuit is being filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. because Germany is not recognizing the descendants' ownership of the art. Nicholas M. O’Donnell is the lead attorney on the lawsuit. This is the first time U.S. Courts have been asked to intervene in Germany's refusal to recognize the claimants' ownership of these works, known as The Guelph Treasure. The collection, housed in the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) in Berlin, is widely regarded to be worth more than $250 million according to expert testimony in court documents.
The media coverage related to this lawsuit was substantial and includes:
- The Wall Street Journal
- National Public Radio
- National Law Journal
- The New York Times
- The Washington Post
- CBS News
- The Los Angeles Times
- NewsDay
- The Chicago Tribune
- Washington Jewish Week
- The Quincy Herald-Whig
- The Minneapolis Star-Tribune
- The Rapid City Journal
- Newser
- The Times Leader
- The Houston Chronicle
- The Atlanta Journal Constitution
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- San Francisco Chronicle
- The Seattle Times
- Fox Business
- ABC News
- NBC News
- Fox News
- Yahoo! News
- USA Today
- Huffington Post
- U-T San Diego
- International Business Times
- News OK
- Fox Tampa Bay
- The Daily Journal
- Stars and Stripes
- CTV News
- The Scotsman
- Jerusalem Post
- BBC News
- Reuters
- The Guardian
- Haaretz
- Agense France Press (AFP)
- The Daily Beast
- Belfast Telegraph
- Fnews
- News GE
- Albuquerque TV
- Deutsche Welle
- The Malta Independent
- Arutz Sheva
- National Post
- The Nation
- ArtFix Daily
- Jewish Journal
- The Times of Israel
- The Jewish Daily Forward
- NewstalkZB
- Yorkshire Post
- The Algemeiner
- Artnet News
- The Telegraph
- Dalje.com
- The Local de
- The Rakyat Post
- Jewish Business News
- Observer
- PrivateArtInvestor