BFAMI on Zoom | Christie’s Roundtable discussion on London Calling
We are pleased to invite BFAMI Friends to a unique CHRISTIE’S Zoom event, entitled, London Calling: Nazi-era Restitution from the 1943 ‘London Declaration’ to the Washington Principles and Beyond.
In summary:
On January 5th, 1943, at the height of World War Two, when Europe faced cataclysm, the British Government and sixteen other Allied governments and French National Committee issued the “Inter-Allied Declaration Against Acts of Dispossession Committed in Territories Under Enemy Occupation or Control”. This foresighted statement confronted the plunder and looting of the German forces – overt or ‘however these may be cloaked’ – and sought to make provision for redress, including for artworks spoliated or forcibly sold at the time.
Eighty years on from the ‘London Declaration’, CHRISTIE’S brings together art restitution practitioners engaged today in dealing with the legacy of Nazi-era art spoliation to explore how the early London Declaration resonates in the Washington Principles of Nazi Confiscated Art of 1998; international approaches to art restitution now; what that means for art collectors, and how the field might evolve.