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After a seven-year legal battle, Spain’s highest judicial body has ruled that the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation does not have the legal standing to protect the artist’s images, dismissing their final appeal citing the artists final will. The Supreme Court reasoned that the artist’s fundamental personality rights, specifically the right to his own image, had died with him, since death determines the end of the civil personality of individuals in Spain.
Gilbert & George are planning to convert an East End house into a non-profit gallery and foundation for contemporary art. The site for the proposed gallery, called The Gilbert & George Centre, is a house on nearby Heneage Street, which previously belonged to the late artist Polly Hope.
Germany’s Federal State Saarland has opened a research center for regional artists’ estates in Saarlouis. Major tasks of the new center is to digitalize artists’ works created in the state of Saarland and to select artists’ estates worth keeping.
In the long-running legal battle over the estate of the artist Franz West, the Austrian Supreme Court has ruled that the transfer of assets from the Franz West Archive to the Franz West Foundation was unlawful. The court reached its verdict at the end of March and the written ruling took effect last week.
A recently found self-portrait of the late British painter Lucian Freud has been handed to the nation to settle an inheritance tax bill. The unfinished portrait, thought to have been executed in the mid-1980s, will join other items in the Freud archive in the National Portrait Gallery, it was announced.
Just three months after the Supreme Court denied certiorari review of last year’s Ninth Circuit decisionfinding California’s Resale Royalty Act unconstitutional under the Dormant Commerce Clause in part—but also valid in part—the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles has ruled the entire law invalid as preempted by copyright law.
As one of the distinguished guests at the symposium “Anlass – Nachlass – on dealing with artists’estates” at Schloss Neuburg ( Passau ), the chairman of the Federal Association of Visual Artists Werner Schaub had introduced an initiative that becomes reality this spring. The association establishes a special department ” Bundesverband Künstlernachlässe” in Berlin . The statutes are already in place, the association will soon be officially registered in Berlin, said Schaub to the PNP.
IS THIS the end for fake art? British entrepreneurs have developed a DNA-like technology for works of art to make passing off forgeries much harder. A “genetic fingerprint” that can be attached to any picture to prove its maker’s identity has been developed over 18 months in a Cambridge lab.
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In our news section you find the latest news on developments in the field of artists’ estates. For further up to date information on artists’ estates you can follow us on twitter and facebook.
Ruling on Dalí IP rights
After a seven-year legal battle, Spain’s highest judicial body has ruled that the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation does not have the legal standing to protect the artist’s images, dismissing their final appeal citing the artists final will. The Supreme Court reasoned that the artist’s fundamental personality rights, specifically the right to his own image, had died with him, since death determines the end of the civil personality of individuals in Spain.
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Gilbert & George establish non-profit gallery
Gilbert & George are planning to convert an East End house into a non-profit gallery and foundation for contemporary art. The site for the proposed gallery, called The Gilbert & George Centre, is a house on nearby Heneage Street, which previously belonged to the late artist Polly Hope.
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Käthe Kollwitz Online CR published
The artist’s museum based in Cologne has published the first catalogue raisonné of the sculptural works of Käthe Kollwitz, also available online.
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German Museums acquire Umbo Estate
The Sprengel Museum Hannnover, the Berlinische Galerie and the Bauhaus Dessau have acquired the estate of Otto Maximilian Umbehr, 540 works in total.
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New German Center for Regional Estates
Germany’s Federal State Saarland has opened a research center for regional artists’ estates in Saarlouis. Major tasks of the new center is to digitalize artists’ works created in the state of Saarland and to select artists’ estates worth keeping.
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New Ruling: West Archive vs. West FDN
In the long-running legal battle over the estate of the artist Franz West, the Austrian Supreme Court has ruled that the transfer of assets from the Franz West Archive to the Franz West Foundation was unlawful. The court reached its verdict at the end of March and the written ruling took effect last week.
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Acceptance in Lieu: NPG gets work from Freud
A recently found self-portrait of the late British painter Lucian Freud has been handed to the nation to settle an inheritance tax bill. The unfinished portrait, thought to have been executed in the mid-1980s, will join other items in the Freud archive in the National Portrait Gallery, it was announced.
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California Resale Royalty Act Claims Dismissed
Just three months after the Supreme Court denied certiorari review of last year’s Ninth Circuit decisionfinding California’s Resale Royalty Act unconstitutional under the Dormant Commerce Clause in part—but also valid in part—the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles has ruled the entire law invalid as preempted by copyright law.
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German Association of Artists’ Estates will be established soon
As one of the distinguished guests at the symposium “Anlass – Nachlass – on dealing with artists’estates” at Schloss Neuburg ( Passau ), the chairman of the Federal Association of Visual Artists Werner Schaub had introduced an initiative that becomes reality this spring. The association establishes a special department ” Bundesverband Künstlernachlässe” in Berlin . The statutes are already in place, the association will soon be officially registered in Berlin, said Schaub to the PNP.
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‘Genetic fingerprints’ for paintings
IS THIS the end for fake art? British entrepreneurs have developed a DNA-like technology for works of art to make passing off forgeries much harder. A “genetic fingerprint” that can be attached to any picture to prove its maker’s identity has been developed over 18 months in a Cambridge lab.
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