Restituted Artwork
The Mosse Art Restitution Project has found and restituted dozens of pieces of artwork and artifacts from around the world over the past decade. Many of these pieces are listed here, illustrating the breadth of the Mosse Art Collection and showcasing the wide dispersion of the Mosse’s assets in the decades following their seizure.
Dame in roter Bluse
Adolph von Menzel, 1850
Owned by Oskar Reinhard Foundation (Winterthur, Switzerland)
Restituted in 2015 and auctioned.
Windgötter, dem Bacchusknaben Trauben stehlend
Anselm Feuerbach, 1848
Owned by Museum Heylshof (Worms, Germany)
Restituted in 2018 and repurchased by the museum.
Das Gastmahl der Familie Mosse
Anton von Werner, 1899
Owned by Jewish Museum (Berlin, Germany)
Restituted in 2018 by the museum, on permanent loan at the museum.
Bust
Benin bronze, date unknown
Unknown owner, via auction house Zemanek-Münster (Würzburg, Germany)
Restituted in 2018 by the owner and consignor of the auction and auctioned.
Auffindung Mosis
Bernardino van Asselt, ca. 1650
Owned by Tel Aviv Museum (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Restituted in 2021 by the museum and auctioned in Paris.
Untergang Pharao im Roten Meer
Bernardino van Asselt, ca. 1650
Owned by Tel Aviv Museum (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Restituted in 2021 by the museum and auctioned in Paris.
Kloster Scholastica bei Subiaco
Carl Blechen, 1832
Owned by Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, SKK (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Restituted in 2015 and repurchased by SKK.
Abend im Walde
Carl Ludwig, 1899
Owned by Cornelia Dieling (Morbach, Germany)
Restituted in 2019 and repurchased by the owner.
Im Vorzimmer von Serenissimus
Carl Wilhelm Anton Seiler, ca. 1900
Unknown owner, via auction at the Art & Auction House (Ruef, Germany)
Restituted in 2022 by the owner and sold by the Mosse heirs.
Im Wirtshaus
Eduard Grützner, 1898
Unknown owner, via auction house Ketterer Kunst GmbH & Co. KG (Munich, Germany)
Restituted in 2019 by the owner and auctioned.
Dichter Wald im Frühling
Emil Jakob Schindler, 1887
Owned by Österreichische Galerie Belvedere (Vienna, Austria)
Restituted in 2018 by the foundation and auctioned.
Blick auf die Insel Philae im Niltal
Ernst Karl Eugen Koerner, 1913
Owned by Ingo von Conta, Niederkassel, via Lempertz
auction house (Cologne, Germany)
Restituted in 2023 by the owner and auctioned.
Am Gardasee
Ettore Tito, 1888
Unknown owner, contacted via METS Perscorsi d’arte (Novara, Italy)
Restituted in 2023 by the owner and repurchased by the owner.
Der Feuerreiter
Friedrich Kallmorgen, 1886
Owned by Städtische Galerie (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Restituted in 2016 and sold by the Mosse heirs.
Büste Rudolf Mosse
Fritz Klimsch, 1904
Owned by Berlinische Galerie (Berlin, Germany)
Restituted in 2018 by the museum and subsequently donated to the museum by the Mosse heirs.
Der Gang nach Bethlehem
Fritz von Uhde, 1890
Owned by Museum Wiesbaden, Hessisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Natur(Wiesbaden, Germany)
Restituted in 2017 and repurchased by the museum.
Schlittschuhläufer
Gari Melchers, 1892
Owned by Arkell Museum, Canajoharie (New York City, USA)
Seized by the FBI in 2019 and restituted to the Mosse heirs, auctioned the following year.
Prinz Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau in der Schlacht bei Turin
Hermann Knackfuß, 1884
Owned by Deutsches Historisches Museum, DHM (Berlin, Germany)
Restituted in 2023 by the museum and repurchased by the museum.
Durch Nacht zum Licht
Jozef Israels, 1871
Owned by Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Restituted in 2021 by the museum and repurchased by the museum.
Fourage im Krieg
Friedrich Kaiser, ca. 1840
Owned by Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr (Dresden, Germany)
Restituted in 2020 by the museum and repurchased by the museum.
Selbstporträt mit Zigarette
Karl Stauffer-Bern, 1883
Owned by Kunstmuseum (Winterthur, Switzerland)
Restituted in 2018 by the museum and auctioned by the Mosse heirs the following year.
Frühlingssturm
Ludwig von Hofmann, 1895
Owned by Institute Mathildenhöhe (Darmstadt, Germany)
Restituted in 2015 and repurchased by the institute.
Blumenstück
Narcisso Vergilio Diaz de la Pena, ca. 1850
Owned by Wallraff-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corbourd (Cologne, Germany)
Restituted in 2016 by the museum and auctioned.
Die büßende Maria Magdalena
Peter Paul Rubens
Owned by Museum Kunstpalast (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Restituted in 2018 by the museum and auctioned the following year.
Susanna
Reinhold Begas, 1873
Owned by Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, SPK (Berlin, Germany)
Restituted in 2016 and repurchased by SPK.
Zwei Löwen auf viereckigen Lotussockeln
Unknown artist, Qianlong period, China, ca. 1750
Owned by Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, SPK (Berlin, Germany)
Restituted in 2015 by the SPK and auctioned.
Bildnis des Appellationsrats Stenglein
Wilhelm Leibl, 1871
Owned by Städtische Galerie (Sindelfingen, Germany)
Restituted in 2015 and repurchased by the museum.
Egyptian Encaustic on Wood Mummy Portraits
Artist unknown, ca. 2nd century CE
Owned by University of Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland)
Restituted in 2016 and auctioned.
