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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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Colonial contexts

Confronting colonial history - the German Lost Art Foundation launches a new funding programme

A fund­ing com­mit­tee set up for this pur­pose will now be­gin as­sess­ing fundin­g ap­pli­ca­tions for prove­nance re­search on col­lec­tions from colo­nial con­texts.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Conclusions of the Specialist Conference “20 Years of Washington Principles: Roadmap for the Future”

The ap­prox­i­mate­ly 800 par­tic­i­pants ex­am­ined the im­ple­men­ta­tion of the prin­ci­ples, which have played a cen­tral role in resti­tut­ing Nazi stolen prop­er­ty world­wide.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Germany and the US express joint commitment to intensifying efforts to implement the Washington Principles

Min­is­ter of State Moni­ka Grüt­ters: "In­ves­ti­gat­ing art theft by the Na­tion­al So­cial­ists is a last­ing obli­ga­tion, es­pe­cial­ly for Ger­many."
Colonial contexts

Foundation Board establishes basis for project funding in the field of cultural goods from colonial contexts

The new fund­ing guide­line on re­search in­to the prove­nance of cul­tur­al goods from colo­nial con­texts and on rel­e­vant ba­sic re­search will come in­to ef­fect on Jan­uary 1, 2019.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Gurlitt Provenance Research project identifies four works of Nazi-confiscated art

Four draw­ings by the artists Charles Do­minique Joseph Eisen, Au­gustin de Saint-Aubin and Anne Val­lay­er-Coster can be traced back to the Jew­ish fam­i­ly Deutsch de la Meur­the in Paris, in whose pri­vate home they were hang­ing.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Initial results of new Gurlitt research

The short re­ports with in­ter­im re­sults, so-called Ob­ject Record Ex­cerpts, on art­works from Cor­nelius Gurlitt’s Salzburg es­tate are now pub­licly avail­able. The Ob­ject Record Ex­cerpts on the ori­gin of 189 art­works from Gurlitt’s Salzburg es­tate are now pub­licly avail­able on the project’s web­site and on www.lostart.de.
Colonial contexts

German Lost Art Foundation takes on key role in initiative to reappraise the provenance of colonial objects in German museums

At its meet­ing on April 23, 2018 in Magde­burg, the Foun­da­tion Board tasked the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion with de­vel­op­ing guide­lines for project fund­ing re­lat­ing to cul­tur­al ob­jects orig­i­nat­ing from the colo­nial era.
Nazi-looted cultural property

First junior professorship for provenance research at the University of Hamburg—Grütters: Further strengthening of provenance research in Germany

Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation approves approx. €1.6 million for 21 provenance research projects

For the first time, an ap­pli­ca­tion from a pri­vate in­di­vid­u­al for prove­nance re­search fund­ing has been ac­cept­ed.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Paris 1940–1944: Theft and trade of cultural assets under German occupation – transnational review opens up new perspectives for provenance research

The conference brings to­geth­er no­table in­ter­na­tion­al ex­perts who will present the find­ings of their re­spec­tive re­search.

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