Introductory Seminar // How to Research Nazi-Looted Art | Part III: Other Important Digital Sources (art dealer archives, key databases, etc.)

Introductory Seminar // How to Research Nazi-Looted Art
The JDCRP offers an online introductory seminar in cooperation with its project partner, the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, and in cooperation with Technische Universität in Berlin.

The introduction provides insight into the topic using sources that document the historical processes of exclusion, persecution, expropriation or confiscation, and “Verwertung” (exploitation) of Jewish cultural property. The online seminar is also a first introduction to basic research strategies and techniques. It allows participants to exchange ideas and concerns with experts in the field.

III. October 23, 2025: Other Important Digital Sources (art dealer archives, key databases, etc.)

• Research projects: “Degenerate Art” Database, Mosse Research Initiative, etc.
• Key databases: Lost Art, Proveana, Getty Provenance Index, etc.
• Research on key players (art dealers, both Jewish and non-Jewish): Hugo Helbing (annotated auction catalogs), German Sales Portal, Böhler re:search, Galerie Heinemann online, research data on the Weinmüller auction house, etc.
• Wiedergutmachungsportal (German reparations portal)

Find out more: https://www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2025/how-to-research-nazi-looted-art-part-III

The online seminar consists of three parts, each lasting 120 minutes: October 9, 16, and 23, 2025, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. CET/10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EST. The three sessions are structured chronologically and thematically, building on one another:

October 9, 2025
Part I: Sources from the Nazi Era (1933–1945)
https://www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2025/how-to-research-nazi-looted-art-part-I

October 16, 2025
Part II: Sources from the Postwar Period (after 1945)
https://www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2025/how-to-research-nazi-looted-art-part-II/