Chiara Zampetti Egidi

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Catherine Hickley |Chiara Zampetti Egidi |Martha Lufkin

The state of Bavaria, facing accusations that it has hidden research showing works in its collections were looted by the Nazis, has pledged to speed up its provenance research and publish the findings to increase transparency. The Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported last week that it had obtained an internal list of 200 works in the Bavarian State Painting Collections that were categorised in an accompanying traffic-light system as “red”, meaning they were “clearly looted”.