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

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
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.

Nazi-looted cultural property

Colonial contexts

Wartime losses

Soviet zone / GDR

Aid or cultural asset in its own right?

12. July 2024

Conference report on the 2024 annual conference of the German Lost Art Foundation: Provenance Research and Photography, 18/19 April in Leipzig

German Lost Art Foundation | photo: Lena Grundhuber

Nazi-looted cultural property

Memory as a mission

25. June 2024

Julia Rosenthal talks about the reconstruction of the art collection that belonged to her family, who were victims of persecution under National Socialism