BERLIN, GERMANY.- Germany's Finance Ministry has launched a new website to find the owners of looted Nazi art. The website presents photographs and descriptions of paintings and other works of art confiscated during the Third Reich. The online catalogue has already around one hundred art objects. The Federal Office for Central Services and Unresolved Property Issues (BADV), a division of the Finance Ministry launched the website. Among the works listed are early Renaissance portraits and biblical scenes by Lucas Cranach the Elder, and an oil-on-canvas Rubens portrait from the 1600s of the Archbishop Antonio Trieste of Ghent.

This agency was established a year ago to handle claims not only for looted art, antique furniture and other cultural artifacts, but also the restitution of real estate and property seized by the Nazis.