Editing Adolph Menzel (section)

==World War II==
[[File:Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie, Eduard Meyerheim, Portrait des jungen Adolph Menzel.JPG|thumb|Adolph Menzel in 1839]]
Several important works by Menzel were seized, sold by force or under duress during the Nazi period. Some of these have been restituted in the 21st century.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kunstrückgabebeirat beschließt fünf neue Empfehlungen|url=https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20140703_OTS0154/kunstrueckgabebeirat-beschliesst-fuenf-neue-empfehlungen|access-date=18 May 2021|website=OTS.at|language=de}}</ref>

* In 2014, the Menzel's ''Stehende Rüstungen'' (1886) ("Standing Suits of Armour" or "Armoury Fantasy"<ref>{{Cite web|title=Armoury fantasy - Art Database|url=https://www.kunstdatenbank.at/detail-view-object/165|access-date=18 May 2021|website=www.kunstdatenbank.at}}</ref>)  was restituted by the Albertina Museum in Vienna to the heirs of Adele Pächter, who was murdered at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.<ref>{{Cite web|date=9 September 2014|title=Heirs to Auction Nazi-Looted Art from Albertina|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/heirs-to-auction-nazi-looted-art-from-albertina-96587|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204145111/https://news.artnet.com/art-world/heirs-to-auction-nazi-looted-art-from-albertina-96587|archive-date=4 December 2019|access-date=18 May 2021|website=Artnet News|language=en-US|quote=Adele Pächter, who was Jewish, was persecuted by the Nazis and was forced to dispose of her deceased husband’s collection. Hermann Pächter had died in 1902. She was able to bring the collection to auction in 1940 via her son in law, under extreme pressure. In 1943, she was murdered at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.}}</ref> 
* In 2015, the Menzel pastel "Lady with a Red Blouse" was restituted to the heirs of Erna Felicia and [[Hans Lachmann-Mosse]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=23 June 2015: Restitution of Adolph Menzel pastel to the heirs of Berlin publisher Rudolf Mosse (1843–1920)|url=https://www.lootedart.com/RJKXB5288381|access-date=18 December 2020|website=www.lootedart.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite press release|last=Miller|first=Bartko Zankel Bunzel &|title=Portrait by Adolph Menzel Among Latest Artifacts Recovered by the Mosse Art Restitution Project and Sold at Auction|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/portrait-by-adolph-menzel-among-latest-artifacts-recovered-by-the-mosse-art-restitution-project-and-sold-at-auction-300279674.html|access-date=18 May 2021|website=www.prnewswire.com|language=en}}</ref> [[Oskar Reinhart]] had purchased the pastel from the art dealer [[Fritz Nathan]] in Munich in 1934 and donated it to the Foundation in 1940.<ref>{{Cite web|title=23 June 2015: Restitution of Adolph Menzel pastel to the heirs of Berlin publisher Rudolf Mosse (1843-1920)|url=https://www.lootedart.com/RJKXB5288381|access-date=15 October 2021|website=www.lootedart.com}}</ref>
* Others have been claimed but not restituted.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hickley|first=Catherine|date=17 March 2020|title=She Tracked Nazi-Looted Art. She Quit When No One Returned It.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/arts/design/georg-schafer-museum-nazi-looted-art.html|access-date=18 May 2021|issn=0362-4331|quote=Two other works in the museum are being sought by the heirs of Therese Clara Kirstein, a German Jew who committed suicide in 1939 after her escape to the United States was blocked. The heirs believe the works, a drawing by Adolph Menzel and a Liebermann study, were sold under duress shortly before her death or, more likely, confiscated and sold shortly after.}}</ref> Also in 2015 the Dutch Limbach Commission refused a restitution request for the Menzel painting "A Weekday in Paris" which had belonged to the Jewish banker Georges Behrens.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Chana|first=Jas|title=Why US lawmakers want Germany to revisit its museums' walls|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/why-us-lawmakers-want-germany-to-revisit-its-museums-walls/|access-date=18 December 2020|website=www.timesofisrael.com|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Bert|first=Peter|title=Art Law: Limbach Commission Advises against Restitution of Adolf von Menzel's "Pariser Wochentag" {{!}} Dispute Resolution Germany|date=6 March 2015 |url=http://www.disputeresolutiongermany.com/2015/03/art-law-limbach-commission-advises-against-restitution-of-adolf-von-menzels-pariser-wochentag/|access-date=18 May 2021|language=en-GB}}</ref>
*In 2017 Germany's Culture Minister [[Monika Grütters|Monika Gruetter]] returned Menzel's ''Interior of a Gothic Church''  to the heirs of Elsa Cohen who, persecuted by the Nazis because Jewish, sold it to Hitler's art dealer [[Hildebrand Gurlitt]] in 1938. It was rediscovered in the art stash of his son, [[Cornelius Gurlitt (art collector)|Cornelius Gurlitt]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Germany returns Adolph von Menzel drawing sold under Nazi persecution|url=https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=SBBHBB283081|url-status=live|access-date=15 October 2021|website=www.lootedart.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313203706/http://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=SBBHBB283081 |archive-date=13 March 2017 }}</ref>

The [http://www.lostart.de/Webs/EN/Datenbank/Suche/SucheSimpel.html German Lost Art Foundation] lists numerous Menzel artworks on its website.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lost Art Internet Database – Einfache Suche|url=http://www.lostart.de/Webs/DE/Datenbank/Suche/SucheSimpelErgebnis.html?cms_param=SUCHE_ID=29016111|access-date=18 December 2020|website=www.lostart.de}}</ref>