Deadline 31 May: Applications for the master’s degree programme “Provenance Research and the History of Collecting”

The mas­ter’s de­gree pro­gramme aims to qual­i­fy stu­dents for this dy­nam­ic field of re­search. Prove­nance re­search is un­der­stood as con­tex­tu­al re­search that cuts across eras and dis­ci­plines, re­veal­ing the com­plex­i­ty of the val­ues at­tribut­ed to art and cul­tur­al as­sets in the con­text of dif­fer­ent so­ci­eties and so­cial con­stel­la­tions as well as by in­di­vid­u­als. Close­ly re­lat­ed to this is the his­to­ry of pri­vate and in­sti­tu­tion­al col­lect­ing, which is an­oth­er fo­cus of the de­gree pro­gramme. The cours­es cov­er all epochs as well as both Eu­ro­pean and non-Eu­ro­pean re­gions.

The com­pul­so­ry part of the de­gree pro­gramme in­cludes mod­ules in the field of art his­to­ry and law. One cen­tral el­e­ment of the pro­gramme is the mod­ule “Prove­nance Re­search in Prac­tice”, which in­cludes an ex­cur­sion last­ing sev­er­al days, the op­por­tu­ni­ty of an in­tern­ship over a pe­ri­od of sev­er­al weeks and a prac­ti­cal ex­er­cise in co­op­er­a­tion with part­ner in­sti­tu­tions.

In or­der to be ad­mit­ted, ap­pli­cants must be pro­fes­sion­al­ly qual­i­fied with a first de­gree in art his­to­ry or else a re­lat­ed sub­ject with at least 60 cred­it points in art his­to­ry. Based in the sub­ject area of art his­to­ry, the pro­gramme is of­fered by the trans­dis­ci­plinary re­search unit Prove­nance Re­search, Art and Cul­tur­al Prop­er­ty Law, which was es­tab­lished in 2018. The Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion col­lab­o­rates close­ly with this cen­tre of ex­cel­lence at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bonn.

See here for de­tails of the mas­ter’s de­gree pro­gramme.