Media Library

The media library contains all the Foundation’s publications along with documentation of the events it has organised. The blog includes reviews and articles from scholarly practice, for example. Here you will also find explanatory videos on questions of provenance research.

Contact

Do you have any questions?

Do feel free to get in touch with us directly – whether at the Foundation’s headquarters in Magdeburg or at our branch office in Berlin.
See here for answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ)

German Lost Art Foundation

Humboldtstr. 12
39112 Magdeburg

Germany
Phone:  +49 (0) 391 727 763 0
E-mail:  kontakt@kulturgutverluste.de
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German Lost Art Foundation Berlin Branch Office

Seydelstr. 18
10117 Berlin

Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 391 727 763 0
E-mail: kontakt@kulturgutverluste.de

The Help Desk offers advice and assistance to victims of the Nazi regime and their descendants on questions relating to Nazi theft of cultural property. Serving as a central and initial low-threshold point of contact in Germany, it is aimed in particular at people whose place of residence is outside Germany and who are unfamiliar with German procedures, especially in connection with cultural federalism. The Help Desk seeks to provide support in taking initial steps as well as providing further contacts and information. We will also be happy to help initiate discussions with museums and other institutions.

German Lost Art Foundation, Branch Office
Dr. Susanne Meyer-Abich
Head of Help Desk

Seydelstr. 18
10117 Berlin

Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 391 727 763 0
E-mail: helpdesk@kulturgutverluste.de

German Lost Art Foundation

Publications

The German Lost Art Foundation publishes three series: the periodical “Provenance & Research” appears once a year, scholarly articles are published in the series “Provenire”, and the series “Working Paper Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste” features articles on current research topics published in open access. This section also contains the publications produced by the former Koordinierungsstelle (Coordination Office) Magdeburg.

The series “Provenire”

The periodical “Provenance & Research”

Working Paper Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste

Publications produced by the former Koordinierungsstelle (Coordination Office)

In our blog, we provide insights into the projects we support, present important new publications and exhibitions on the subject of provenance research, report on conferences, and talk about how previously looted items of cultural property have found their way back to their rightful owners.

To the blog

Latest Blog Posts

Nora M. Kißling, Berlin

Who was Tomas Freud?

On the difficulties of identifying previous owners – an example from the Wolff Collection in Halberstadt

Klaus Pichler

„Theft“

An unusual double exhibition is currently on at the Jewish Museum Vienna and the Vienna Museum.

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz | photo: Violetta Wakolbinger

Answer to 'The Monuments Men'

The exhibition The Journey of the Paintings at Lentos Art Museum Linz provides a clear and precise account of Hitler’s Sonderauftrag Linz and the consequences of Nazi art theft in the Salzkammergut region.

German Lost Art Foundation, photo: Dirk Mahler

Event Documentation

Here you can view and listen to past colloquia and conferences organised by the German Lost Art Foundation.

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Video Poster image Fair and just solutions

German Lost Art Foundation

Explanatory Videos

The German Lost Art Foundation makes short, animated explanatory videos available for use free of charge in order to support the educational work done by cultural heritage institutions.

To the explanatory videos