The Max Stern Art Restitution Project has also become one of the world’s most important voices in the study of Holocaust-era art looting, setting precedents such as its 2008 restitution of The ...

1987 Max Stern dies, leaving the bulk of his estate to Concordia University, McGill University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his private art collection to select museums across Canada, the ...

Max Stern by Yousf Karsh, 1973. (Courtesy of the Max and Iris Stern Foundation) Its aim is to reclaim his art, no matter the current market worth.

Stern grew up in Düsseldorf and took over his father’s successful art gallery upon his death in 1934. But the following year, Nazi laws came into force, prohibiting Stern, a Jew, from selling art.

An art-world scandal is brewing over Dusseldorf's abrupt cancellation of a show about noted Montreal dealer Max Stern, whose earlier collection the Nazis forced him to sell, Sara Angel reports ...

Max Stern and his wife, Iris, shown in 1952, pursued the art collection he was forced to sell from his family's Dusseldorf art gallery in 1937.

In Düsseldorf, an earlier Stern exhibition at the Stadtmuseum, organised by the Canadian scholars working with the Max Stern Art Restitution Project was cancelled in 2017 by the city's mayor, on ...

Stern was forced out of business in Dusseldorf in 1935 and by 1937 was forced to sell his entire art collection in a "Jew sale." He fled to the U.K. and later to Canada and re-established himself ...

On Sept. 13, 1952, we reported that "Dr. and Mrs. Max Stern returned this week in the Empress of Canada from a three months trip to England, France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy." But as this ...

The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) is proud to announce the sixteenth Max and Iris Stern International Symposium. On April 12 and 13, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the ...

The Max Stern Project is in a tussle with the Van Ham auction house in Cologne over three disputed pictures. The Stern estate has not yet had time to value the painting, but Mr. Epstein said the ...

For close to thirty years the executors and university beneficiaries of the Estate of Dr. Max Stern have upheld the wishes of an extraordinary individual who, during the course of his life delved into ...