Disputes over Nazi looted property should be resolved more quickly. Estimates suggest that up to 600,000 works of art were stolen during the Nazi era.
Until now, a site can block due to inaction or lack of insight. This regulation recently blocked a solution to the dispute over the 1905 painting “Madame Soler’ by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) The Bavarian State Painting Collections are resisting an appeal to the commission, which is sought by the heirs of the Jewish art collector Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.