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

 

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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.
Colonial contexts

Under the first round of proposals in 2022, the German Lost Art Foundation approved around 1.6 million euros for nine research projects dealing with colonial contexts

The Ex­ec­u­tive Board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion in Magde­burg has now ap­proved nine re­search pro­pos­als in the area of “colo­nial con­texts” on the rec­om­men­da­tion of its fund­ing ad­vi­so­ry board un­der the first round of pro­pos­als in 2022, ap­prov­ing a to­tal of around 1.6 mil­lion eu­ros in project fund­ing.
Nazi-looted cultural property

In the first round of funding in 2022, the German Lost Art Foundation granted some 3.1 million euros for 24 provenance research projects on the subject of Nazi-looted property

On the rec­om­men­da­tion of its fund­ing ad­vi­so­ry board, the Ex­ec­u­tive Board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion has ap­proved some 3.1 mil­lion eu­ros in this first round of pro­pos­als for prove­nance re­search to be con­duct­ed at mu­se­ums, li­braries, aca­dem­ic in­sti­tu­tions as well as for pri­vate ap­pli­cants.
Soviet zone / GDR

Expropriated, confiscated, sold: German Lost Art Foundation publishes scholarly anthology on the reappraisal of the loss of cultural property in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR

The German Lost Art Foundation in Magdeburg is bringing out an anthology entitled Enteignet, entzogen, verkauft (‘Expropriated, confiscated, sold’) which will be officially published on 21 March 2022 and sheds scholarly light on the state-organised confiscation of cultural property in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR.
Nazi-looted cultural property
Wartime losses

“Lost Art” website relaunched

The web­site of the most ex­ten­sive database world­wide for the search for Nazi-loot­ed art and so-called tro­phy art on www.lostart.de/en was re­designed in a more con­tem­po­rary style and with clear­er struc­tures.
Colonial contexts

“Dealing with our own colonial past”

The German Lost Art Foundation hosts the digital autumn conference “The Long History of Claims for the Return of Cultural Heritage from Colonial Contexts”.
Colonial contexts

German Lost Art Foundation awards funds for research on Benin bronzes and also grants approximately 912,000 euros for long-term research projects on colonial contexts

With the sup­port of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion, the prove­nance of around 90 Benin bronzes is to be in­ves­ti­gat­ed.