Overview
- An investigation presented in the Bavarian Landtag found years of inadequate transparency and a lack of binding procedures in the State Painting Collections’ handling of Nazi‑era cases.
- The commission counted 82 works in a red category as suspected looted art and 446 orange cases with doubtful provenance, with roughly 3,000 post‑1945 acquisitions insufficiently checked.
- The government will roll out QR‑code labels using a traffic‑light system in the Pinakotheken from March, expand provenance staff, and shift the research function to the State Museums Agency.
- Minister Markus Blume announced five new positions, €1 million in special funding now, and a target of €4 million in the 2026/27 budget, plus a round table chaired by historian Andreas Wirsching and an arbitration body to be constituted in December.
- The report rejected blanket claims of concealment; separate findings confirmed sexual harassment by security staff, and the collections’ longtime chief Bernhard Maaz has been replaced by Anton Biebl, with Blume calling the workload for the next one to two years substantial.