Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
the first section completes the previous volumes by addressing the significant ways and means available under criminal law, which are applied in the daily practice of the protection of cultural goods and art restitution, from national and international perspectives. The response options to illegal art trading available under criminal law are also considered starting from the point at which the state attorney or police are notified up to the securing of the object and the return of the illegally confiscated cultural goods to the rightful owners. The series is concluded with a "general section," which considers the fundamental goals and basic principles of the protection of cultural goods comprehensively across the legal fields. Finally, a new system of cultural goods protection is presented on the basis of three criteria - namely "cultural goods" (as the object), "owner of cultural goods" (as the subject) and "legal and cultural classification criteria" - in order to transcend the established legal and cultural difficulties surrounding the classification of art and cultural goods. "
Synopsis
Das umfassende Nachschlagewerk fur alle Fragen im Kulturguterschutz- und Kunstrestitutionsrecht. Konzipiert fur die Praxis, bietet das Werk Antworten bei der taglichen Arbeit fur alle im Kunstmarkt Beteiligten rund um die Themen:
- Kunstdiebstahl,
- Schutz und Schmuggel nationalen Kulturbesitzes,
- illegaler Antikenhandel,
- wahrend der nationalsozialistischen Unrechtsherrschaft entzogene Raub- und Beutekunst sowie entartete Kunst,
- nach Russland und in die Staaten der ehemaligen Sowjetunion verlagerte Trophaenkunst,
- wahrend der DDR-Unrechtsherrschaft verstaatlichte Kulturguter sowie
- kolonial- und fundteilungsbedingte Kulturgutverlagerungen.
Der unerlassliche Rechtsratgeber beim Erwerb, bei der Verauerung, der Leihe sowie dem Ex- und Import und dem Sammeln und Verwahren von Kunst- und Kulturgutern fur offentliche und private Museen, Kunsthandler, Galeristen, Auktionshauser ebenso wie fur Privatsammler, insbesondere aber auch fur offentliche Institutionen, Ministerien, Verwaltungs-, Zoll- und Strafverfolgungsbehorden sowie nicht zuletzt fur alle Kunstinteressierte. Besondere Bedeutung erlangt das Rechtshandbuch schlielich auch fur auswartige Staaten und diplomatische Dienste im kulturellen Sektor.
Synopsis
The comprehensive reference work for all questions related to the protection of cultural goods and art restitution law. Designed for practitioners, this work provides all participants in the art market with answers to issues that arise during daily practice related to:
- art theft
- protection and smuggling of national cultural treasures
- the illegal trade of antiques
- stolen and looted art as well as degenerate art confiscated during the unjust Nazi Regime
- displaced trophy art in Russia and the member states of the former Soviet Union
- cultural goods nationalized during the unjust GDR regime
- the movement of cultural goods affected by colonial rule and the division of archeological finds
This work provides essential legal advice required during the purchase, sale, loan as well as the export and import, collecting and storing of art and cultural goods. In addition, the legal guidance offered is indispensible for public and private museums, art dealers, gallery owners, auction houses as well as private collectors and particularly, for public institutions, ministries, administrative authorities, customs authorities, and criminal enforcement authorities and finally, for all those interested in art. This legal handbook is also of significant importance to foreign states and diplomatic services active in the cultural sector.