Blog

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 cultural properties have found their way back to their rightful owners. Researchers and other interested parties are invited to contact the press office with ideas and suggestions for contributions: presse@kulturgutverluste.de

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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
Germany
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) 30 2338493 85
E-mail: helpdesk@kulturgutverluste.de

ORA

Colonial contexts

We call it “journeys”

12. May 2026

Open Restitution Africa (ORA) describes restitution as a pan-African process of remembrance, research, and the digital sharing of knowledge – an interview.

Colonial contexts

We call it “journeys”

12. May 2026

Open Restitution Africa (ORA) describes restitution as a pan-African process of remembrance, research, and the digital sharing of knowledge – an interview.

ORA

Colonial contexts

A Starting Point, Not a Final Point

9. October 2025

Valence Silayo talks about cultural belongings of the Tanzanian Chagga people in Germany.

Valence Silayo/University of Dar es Salaam

Nazi-looted cultural property

Wartime losses

“Books, books, a hundred thousand books …”

19. August 2025

Reflections on object autopsy in large-scale investigative corpora

ULB Sign. Ll 702/138

Nazi-looted cultural property

Colonial contexts

Wartime losses

Soviet zone / GDR

Artificial intelligence and museum data

4. June 2025

On the responsible use of discriminatory language in the age of AI

Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen

Nazi-looted cultural property

Testimonies to the biggest theft in history

2. May 2025

The documents of the ‘Monuments Men’ (and women) deployed by the Allies at the Central Collecting Points

Child Jesus and parts of a Marian sculpture

NARA, Record Group 260 WLA, Roll 1

Nazi-looted cultural property

Moving objects

17. April 2025

Nazi-looted assets in the Bremen Finance Authority – a search for evidence

Jana Schäfer

Nazi-looted cultural property

Who was Tomas Freud?

18. October 2024

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

Nora M. Kißling, Berlin

Nazi-looted cultural property

„Theft“

24. September 2024

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

Klaus Pichler

Nazi-looted cultural property

Answer to 'The Monuments Men'

31. July 2024

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.