Renata Kaminker - Fine Art Solutions attends CIVS' 2019 Conference

Last Friday, 15 November 2019, I had the opportunity to attend CIVS’ conference on the “Twenty years of reparation for anti-semitic spoliations during the Occupation: between compensation and restitution”.

Following the introduction given by former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, speakers from France, England, Switzerland, and Germany, among other countries, discussed several issues:

• Does compensation adequately reflect the losses suffered?

• Reparation: what is the perspective of despoiled families?

• Reparation that is necessarily incomplete

• Comparative assessment in Europe

• The challenges of provenance research

• The diversity of approach: the example of forced sales

 In addition, the new French organization for the restitution of looted cultural property was presented. You may find more information on this here.

The event was also a wonderful occasion to greet colleagues and friends, and exchange on the future of restitutions and other related issues. Renata Kaminker - Fine Art Solutions is very happy to be assistance in documentation and title research, as well as legal advice thanks to its network of specialized lawyers, as is necessary for cases like the ones discussed today.