Editing Edvard Munch (section)

=== Looted art controversies ===
In 2007, Munch's ''Summer Night at the Beach'' was returned to the granddaughter of Alma Mahler, who was forced to flee the Nazis with her Jewish husband in March 1938, after Hitler's annexation of Austria.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Munch painting sought |url=https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=ML21QY265421 |access-date=30 January 2024 |website=www.lootedart.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Munch painting stolen by Nazis is returned to Mahler heir |url=https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=MKP5VR311981 |access-date=30 January 2024 |website=www.lootedart.com}}</ref> In 2008 the Basel Fine Arts Museum rejected a claim for Munch's ''Madonna, a'' lithograph of a nude in black, red and blue'','' from the heirs of the Jewish collector Curt Glaser.<ref>{{Cite web |last=swissinfo.ch |first=Catherine Hickley |date=28 November 2017 |title=Basel faces pressure to return art once owned by Jewish historian |url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/curt-glaser-family_basel-faces-pressure-to-return-jewish-art/43707456 |access-date=30 January 2024 |website=SWI swissinfo.ch |language=en}}</ref> In 2012 Berlin's Kupferstichkabinett restituted three drawings by Munch to the heirs of [[Curt Glaser]], a Jewish collector forced into exile by the Nazis.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Munch, Kirchner Artworks Return to Jewish Collector's Heirs |url=https://lootedart.com/news.php?r=PRGLVT719731 |access-date=30 January 2024 |website=lootedart.com}}</ref> In 2012, a claim for ''The Scream'' from the heirs of [[Hugo Simon (art collector)|Hugo Simon]] was rejected as it went to auction.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Algemeiner |first=The |date=24 October 2012 |title=Lawyer Seeking Return of Nazi Stolen Art: There is Real Prejudice Against Jewish Claimants - Algemeiner.com |url=https://www.algemeiner.com/2012/10/24/lawyer-seeking-return-of-nazi-stolen-art-there-is-real-prejudice-against-jewish-claimants/ |access-date=30 January 2024 |website=www.algemeiner.com |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2023 Munch's ''Dance on the Beach'' was the object of an accord between the Glaser heirs and the heirs of Thomas Olsen, a Norwegian shipowner and Munch's neighbour and collector.<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 January 2023 |title=Another monumental Munch painting once hidden from Nazis in a barn heads to the block |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/01/16/another-monumental-munch-painting-once-hidden-from-nazis-in-a-barn-norway-heads-to-the-block |access-date=30 January 2024 |website=The Art Newspaper - International art news and events}}</ref>