Evening Lecture "Lost, Found or Vanished. Three Cases of Persian Carpet Provenance in the Lands of the Former Habsburg Empire"
Venue:
Auditorium James-Simon-Galerie | Visitor entrance on the ground floor, Bodestraße, 10178 Berlin
Organiser:
Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin und Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste
The Help Desk offers advice and assistance to victims of the Nazi regime and their descendants on questions relating to Nazi theft of cultural property. Serving as a central and initial low-threshold point of contact in Germany, it is aimed in particular at people whose place of residence is outside Germany and who are unfamiliar with German procedures, especially in connection with cultural federalism. The Help Desk seeks to provide support in taking initial steps as well as providing further contacts and information. We will also be happy to help initiate discussions with museums and other institutions.
German Lost Art Foundation, Branch Office
Dr. Susanne Meyer-Abich Head of Help Desk
This talk explores the trajectories of early-modern Persian carpets with contested provenance records. Against a complex socio-cultural backdrop of post-Habsburg Central Europe, it traces the network of object sharing among dealers, private collectors and state institutions through three case studies concerning Vienna, Kraków and Budapest.
Public evening lecture in English Participation without registration
