Press

The press department will be happy to answer any questions you may have! Here you will also find current press releases and press photographs for download for the purpose of reporting on the Foundation.

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German Lost Art Foundation
Lena Grundhuber
Spokeswoman
Humboldtstr. 12
39112 Magdeburg
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 391 727 763 35
E-mail: pressoffice@germanlostartfoundation.org

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Here you can download current press images issued by the German Lost Art Foundation, which you may use free of charge for editorial reporting about the Foundation. Please observe the Terms and Conditions of Use in all cases.

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Nazi-looted cultural property
Colonial contexts
Wartime losses
Soviet zone / GDR

Source, evidence, sensitive object

The German Lost Art Foundation is dedicating its next annual conference to the subject of ‘provenance research and photography’.
Colonial contexts

Some 1.9 million euros for research into colonial contexts

In 2023 the German Lost Art Foundation approved a total of 13 projects on the subject of cultural goods and collections from colonial contexts.
Nazi-looted cultural property

“Key instrument for addressing the consequences of Nazi crimes”

German Lost Art Foundation marks 25 years of the Washington Principles.
Nazi-looted cultural property

A Christ returns

The German Lost Art Foundation hands over a crucifix to the descendants of the Jewish collector Ottmar Strauss.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Some 1.93 million euros for provenance research in the area of “Nazi-looted cultural property”

German Lost Art Foundation approves funding for 18 research projects in the second round of applications in 2023.
Soviet zone / GDR

New publication: Foundation publishes special volume Kunstraub für den Sozialismus [Art theft in the name of socialism]

German Lost Art Foundation publishes expert opinion on the legal assessment of cultural property confiscations in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR.
Nazi-looted cultural property

In the first round of funding in 2023, the German Lost Art Foundation has granted some 1.76 million euros for 17 provenance research projects on the subject of Nazi-looted cultural property

In the first round of funding in 2023, the German Lost Art Foundation has granted a total of some 1.76 million euros for provenance research into Nazi-looted cultural property.
Colonial contexts

Under the second round of proposals in 2022, the German Lost Art Foundation has approved a total of some 1.37 million euros for seven projects in colonial contexts

Under the second round of funding in 2022, the German Lost Art Foundation is awarding around 1.37 million euros for provenance research projects in colonial contexts.
Nazi-looted cultural property

“The periphery at the centre”: the German Lost Art Foundation dedicates its autumn conference to provenance research on what has been forgotten, suppressed and neglected

Provenance research is often an issue when it comes to the restitution of valuable works of art. But at its autumn conference, the German Lost Art Foundation will look at the work of provenance researchers that goes beyond prominent cases: the two-day digital conference on 14 and 15 November 2022, entitled Die Peripherie im Zentrum. Vergessenes, Verdrängtes und Vernachlässigtes in der Provenienzforschung (“The periphery at the centre. What is forgotten, suppressed and neglected in provenance research”) deliberately focuses on seemingly insignificant places, everyday objects and unknown names.
Nazi-looted cultural property

In the second round of funding in 2022, the German Lost Art Foundation granted some 2.1 million euros for 19 provenance research projects on the subject of Nazi-looted property

The Ex­ec­u­tive Board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion has ap­proved some 2.1 mil­lion eu­ros for prove­nance re­search to be con­duct­ed at mu­se­ums, li­braries and aca­dem­ic in­sti­tu­tions as well as for pri­vate ap­pli­cants.