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

Gilbert Lupfer becomes new full-time Executive Board of the German Lost Art Foundation

Gilbert Lupfer, who pre­vi­ous­ly held an hon­orary po­si­tion on the Foun­da­tion’s Ex­ec­u­tive Board, is now its sole mem­ber.
Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation approves approx. €2.87 million for 25 provenance research projects on Nazi-confiscated property in first funding round of 2020

The Ex­ec­u­tive Board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion has ap­proved ap­prox. €2.87 mil­lion for prove­nance re­search ac­tiv­i­ties at mu­se­ums, li­braries and aca­dem­ic in­sti­tu­tions, and al­so for four pri­vate in­di­vid­u­als.
Nazi-looted cultural property

New book on the Gurlitt Art Trove

Af­ter com­ple­tion of the sys­tem­at­ic study, the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion has now
re­leased a sci­en­tif­ic pub­li­ca­tion on the “Gurlitt Art Trove”.
Soviet zone / GDR

In search of lost cultural property in the Stasi files

Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion and the Fed­er­al Com­mis­sion­er for Stasi Records pub­lish a new re­search tool for prove­nance re­search.
Nazi-looted cultural property
Colonial contexts
Wartime losses
Soviet zone / GDR

Greater openness and interconnectivity in provenance research: German Lost Art Foundation launches English version of its website Proveana

At www.proveana.de, it is pos­si­ble to search the re­sults of re­search projects fund­ed to date by the Foun­da­tion and its pre­de­ces­sor, the Bu­reau for Prove­nance Re­search, as well as da­ta and re­ports on prove­nance re­search re­lat­ing to the “Gurlitt art trove”.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media restitutes Nazi-looted art—Grütters: “We must render this injustice visible”

Moni­ka Grüt­ters re­turned three works of art to the de­scen­dants of Ar­mand Dorville.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Opening of the Berlin-based “Help Desk” for enquiries about cultural assets seized in the National Socialist era

Cen­tral point of con­tact in Berlin for en­quiries from those whose cul­tur­al as­sets were seized as a re­sult of per­se­cu­tion un­der the Na­tion­al So­cial­ist regime, and their de­scen­dants.
Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation and five partners publish a manual on provenance research for cultural goods seized during the Nazi regime as a result of persecution

Nazi-looted cultural property

“To truly clarify everything”: German Lost Art Foundation presents new publication series “Provenire”. Volume one: Insights into ten years of funded provenance research

The first vol­ume en­ti­tled “Prove­nien­z­forschung in deutschen Samm­lun­gen” (Prove­nance re­search in Ger­man col­lec­tions) pro­vides an in­sight in­to the ex­pe­ri­ences and find­ings from ten years of fund­ed re­search on many dif­fer­ent as­pects of Nazi-con­fis­cat­ed prop­er­ty in mu­se­ums, li­braries and archives in Ger­many.
Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation approves a further €1.9 million for 25 provenance research projects in 2019

The case of mer­chant Fe­lix Ganz is one of 25 re­search projects that are be­ing fi­nan­cial­ly sup­port­ed by the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion in Magde­burg from 2019 on­ward. He was a high­ly re­spect­ed cit­i­zen of the city of Mainz - and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.

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