The scope of what is believed to be Germany's biggest art forgery scandal since World War II has reached as far as Hollywood, Spiegel Online reports.

Egypt officials have said they will make a formal request to Germany for the return of the 3,400 year-old bust of fabled Queen Nefertiti, but Germany said the bust will remain in Berlin.

The Salzburg Museum of Modern Art has agreed to return a valuable Gustav Klimt painting stolen by the Nazis to the grandson of the original Jewish owner.

A Cologne museum has unveiled an original Monet painting 20 years after it was acquired in an unusual way. All signs point to it being authentic, says the gallery that now owns it.

A collection of 10,000 photographs belonging to British comedian Charlie Chaplin and tracing his career will be given to a Swiss museum, it was announced Monday.

An art form of French resistance at the height of Nazi occupation has come to the fore after it emerged that Adolf Hitler was portrayed as blood-thirsty King Herod killing in a church's stained glass window created during World War II.

As the financial crisis is taking its toll on public funding, Germany's cultural institutions are struggling to survive. A way out would be more private donations.

Veteran German forger Andreas Uckert is seeking backers after claiming to have unearthed a secret treasure map leading to more than 150 million euros of buried Nazi treasure.

A treasure trove of 17th and 18th century paintings went on show on Thursday in a Prussian palace outside Berlin that was their pre-war home before going missing in 1945.

Paintings by Georg Baselitz and Gerhard Richter were among the 80 lots sold at Christie's for a total of $232 million. Jasper John's "Flag" hit the artist's auction record.

Adolf Hitler never made it as an artist, but his drawings and paintings have fetched high bids at auction. It's not neo-Nazis who are buying, but history buffs and art collectors.

By Greg Wiser

Pictures of naked men from behind drawn by Adolf Hitler are set to go under the hammer. The paintings are more than 100 years old and will be sold by British auction house Mullocks.

The only portrait of Frederick the Great painted during his reign as Prussian King fetched €670,000 ($1 million) at an auction in Bremen on Saturday.

Three watercolors believed to have been painted by a young Adolf Hitler have been sold at an auction in the Bavarian city of Nuremberg.

An Egyptian antiquities expert said he has "documentary proof" that Germany stole the fabled bust of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti nearly a century ago and should return it. 

Sixty artworks are on display in Berlin to celebrate Germany's 60 years of statehood. Only works by West German artists are shown. Organizers wanted to stress freedom and avoid national art. Deutsche Welle reports.

The bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti, which has been on display in Berlin for nearly four years, is now the subject of a major controversy over how Germany acquired the sculpture.

Spanish artist works in the Chamber for Human rights and the Alliance of Civilizations at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo is preparing to unveil one of his most important works so far at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva while still at the height of his artistic glory.

Berlin is playing host to a large number of art exhibitions and fairs, featuring work by Jeff Koons and Paul Klee as well as a slew of international artists from India to Mexico, South Africa to Romania.

At the Mies van der Rohe-designed New National Gallery, US contemporary artist Koons is parading a glittering array of huge sculptures and paintings.