Art Justice @ Germany

Although this does not - at least not yet (unless these posters are exhibited stateside someday?) - have anything to do with art exhibits in America, I would just like to point out this great story in The Washington Post that pertains to art restitution, human dignity, and justice.

The German high court made the right decision here to return as collection of rare posters to their rightful heirs more than 70 years after they were confiscated from their original owner - a fate that alas befell many Jewish art collectors in Nazi Germany and other parts of war-ravaged Europe where people were persecuted and art was looted:

German court: Rare art posters seized by Nazis to be returned to Jewish man in the US

(A fantastic, albeit chilling, exhibition on the fate of some of the greatest art of the era in Nazi Germany was mounted by LACMA, which has also produced several publications on German Expressionism. This historic Julien Bryan film and the excellent movie The Architecture of Doom also document the disturbing lack of method to this madness, which was spawned largely by Hitler's own insane ideas and personal preferences regarding what he considered appropriate "art" ... )