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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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Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation approves approximately 2.1 million euros for 20 provenance research projects in the area of “Nazi-looted art” in the second round of funding in 2021

The Ex­ec­u­tive Board of the Magde­burg-based foun­da­tion ap­proved ap­prox­i­mate­ly 2.1 mil­lion eu­ros for prove­nance re­search at mu­se­ums, li­braries, aca­dem­ic in­sti­tu­tions and for four pri­vate ap­pli­cants.
Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation approves approximately 2.8 million Euros for 31 provenance research projects in the area of "Nazi-looted art" in the first round of funding in 2021

He was con­sid­ered a close friend of Hitler, was very well con­nect­ed in the Nazi state – and founder of to­day's Ger­man Hunt­ing and Fish­ing Mu­se­um in Mu­nich.
Colonial contexts

German Lost Art Foundation approves around 685,000 Euros for five research projects on colonial contexts in the first application round 2021

In or­der to clar­i­fy where and un­der what cir­cum­stances ob­jects and hu­man re­mains from colonial contexts came in­to Ger­man col­lec­tions, the board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion in Magde­burg has now ap­proved five re­search ap­pli­ca­tions.
Colonial contexts

Also possible at short notice: German Lost Art Foundation awards funds for research on Benin bronzes

The Foun­da­tion can pro­vide up to 25,000 Eu­ros for a project du­ra­tion of up to six months for prove­nance re­search on in­di­vid­u­al ob­jects or small­er groups of ob­jects.
Nazi-looted cultural property
Colonial contexts
Soviet zone / GDR

More money for provenance research: The German Lost Art Foundation expands its research funding

In 2021, the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion will re­ceive a to­tal of 1.5 mil­lion Eu­ros more than last year.
Soviet zone / GDR

The German Lost Art Foundation is organizing the digital fall conference "VEB Kunst – Kulturgutentziehung und Handel in der DDR" (VEB art – cultural property confiscation and trade in the GDR)

The Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion is shed­ding light on a field in prove­nance re­search that has so far been lit­tle dis­cussed in pub­lic: the do­mes­tic and for­eign trade in art and
an­tiq­ui­ties on the ter­ri­to­ry of the for­mer GDR be­tween 1945 and 1990.
Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation approves approximately 1.97 million Euros for 25 provenance research projects in the area of "Nazi-looted art" in the second round of funding in 2020

The board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion has ap­proved around 1.97 mil­lion Eu­ros in fund­ing for the sec­ond ap­pli­ca­tion round in 2020 for prove­nance re­search at mu­se­ums, li­braries, aca­dem­ic in­sti­tu­tions and for three pri­vate in­di­vid­u­als.
Colonial contexts

German Lost Art Foundation approves more than one million Euros for eight research projects in colonial contexts in the second round of applications in 2020

In or­der to clar­i­fy the ori­gin of col­lec­tions from colo­nial con­texts, the board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion in Magde­burg has now ap­proved eight re­search ap­pli­ca­tions from mu­se­ums and uni­ver­si­ties in the sec­ond ap­pli­ca­tion round 2020.
Nazi-looted cultural property
Colonial contexts
Wartime losses
Soviet zone / GDR

"Provenance research must not be made available for disposal"

Against the back­drop of the coro­n­avirus cri­sis, the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion warns against mak­ing sav­ings on prove­nance re­search in Ger­man cul­tur­al in­sti­tu­tions.
Colonial contexts

German Lost Art Foundation approves approx. €650,000 in the first application round of 2020 for five research projects in the field of colonial contexts

In or­der to clar­i­fy the prove­nance of ob­jects from colo­nial con­texts in Ger­man in­sti­tu­tions, the Ex­ec­u­tive Board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion in Magde­burg has ap­proved five new re­search ap­pli­ca­tions from mu­se­ums and uni­ver­si­ties in the first ap­pli­ca­tion round of 2020.

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