The series "Working Paper Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste“

In the series "Working Paper Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste" the German Lost Art Foundation intermittently publishes current research papers online from all funding areas and the Foundation’s general activities. These include dossiers, guidelines, research aids, research reports and overviews of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution (so-called Nazi-looted art), war-related removal or relocation of cultural assets (so-called trophy art), expropriation of cultural property in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR, and cultural goods and collections from colonial contexts. The Working Papers are available for download free of charge at perspectivia.net.

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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

Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste

Colonial contexts

Working Paper 9/2025

Jan Hüsgen: „Missionary Societies and Religious Orders in German Colonies and Their Contribution to Ethnographic Collections“

Available free of charge at perspectivia.net, the publication platform of the Max Weber Foundation.

https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2025-00046

Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste

Soviet zone / GDR

Working Paper 8/2024

Michael Busch: „Der Staatliche Kunsthandel der DDR im Spiegel der Akten der Arbeiter-und-Bauern-Inspektion. Ein Forschungsdesiderat“

Available free of charge at perspectivia.net, the publication platform of the Max Weber Foundation.

https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2024-00009

German Lost Art Foundation

Colonial contexts

Working Paper 7/2024

Katja Kaiser, Catarina Madruga: „Tagging Objects from Colonial Contexts. A Decision Tree for Natural History Collections“

Available free of charge at perspectivia.net, the publication platform of the Max Weber Foundation.

https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2024-00005

German Lost Art Foundation

Colonial contexts

Working Paper 6/2024

Gesa Grimme and Larissa Förster: „Locating Namibian Cultural Heritage in Museums and Universities in German-Speaking Countries. A Finding Aid for Provenance Research“

Available free of charge at perspectivia.net, the publication platform of the Max Weber Foundation.

https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2024-00002

German Lost Art Foundation

Soviet zone / GDR

Working Paper 5/2023

Peter Danker-Carstensen: „,Die Zustände […] sind als katastrophal zu beschreiben.’ Der Untersuchungsausschuss Verschwundene Kulturgüter der Rostocker Bürgerschaft“

Available free of charge at perspectivia.net, the publication platform of the Max Weber Foundation.

https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2023-00037

German Lost Art Foundation

Colonial contexts

Working Paper 4/2022

Eva Künkler: "Koloniale Gewalt in Deutsch-Neuguinea und der Raub kultureller Objekte und menschlicher Überreste: Eine systematische Übersicht zu Militärgewalt und sogenannten Strafexpeditionen in deutschen Kolonialgebieten in Ozeanien (1884–1914)"

Available free of charge at perspectivia.net, the publication platform of the Max Weber Foundation.

https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2022-00056

German Lost Art Foundation

Colonial contexts

Working Paper 3/2022

Rikke Gram and Zoe Schoofs: "Germany’s history of returning human remains and objects from colonial contexts: An overview of successful cases and unsettled claims between 1970 and 2021"

Available free of charge at perspectivia.net, the publication platform of the Max Weber Foundation.

https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2022-00019

German Lost Art Foundation

Colonial contexts

Working Paper 2/2022

Eva Künkler: „Koloniale Gewalt und der Raub kultureller Objekte und menschlicher Überreste. Eine systematische Übersicht zu Militärgewalt und sogenannten Strafexpeditionen in deutschen Kolonialgebieten in Afrika (1884–1919)“

Available free of charge at perspectivia.net, the publication platform of the Max Weber Foundation.

https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2022-00001

German Lost Art Foundation

Colonial contexts

Working Paper 1/2021

Lars Müller: „Returns of Cultural Artefacts and Human Remains in a (Post)colonial Context : Mapping Claims between the mid-19th Century and the 1970s“

Available free of charge at perspectivia.net, the publication platform of the Max Weber Foundation.

https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2021-00017