After years of litigation, Germany’s top court — Federal Court of Justice — on Thursday (February 20) ruled that Birkenstock sandals do not qualify as works of art. The development came in a case ...

Germany likes to see itself as the world champion of coming to terms with the past. With countless monuments and memorials, the country is trying to come to terms with its responsibility for the ...

German footwear brand Birkenstock has lost a key legal battle after Germany’s Federal Court of Justice ruled that its sandals do not qualify as copyrighted works of art, classifying them as ...

However, a question mark hangs over the provenance of A Peasant Woman digging because it is recorded as having come from Germany, but the details of its owner there remain unknown. This has ...