News

We report on the latest developments in provenance research and on projects funded by the Foundation, as well as offering details of important new publications, exhibitions and conferences and reporting on restitutions. Feel free to send in interesting news relating to the field of provenance research to presse@kulturgutverluste.de

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German Lost Art Foundation

Humboldtstraße 12
39112 Magdeburg
Tel:  +49 (0) 391 727 763 0
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German Lost Art Foundation Berlin Branch Office

Seydelstraße 18
10117 Berlin
Tel: +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

Seydelstraße 18
10117 Berlin
Tel: +49 (0) 391 727 763 0
E-mail: helpdesk@kulturgutverluste.de

German Lost Art Foundation | photo: Stefan Deutsch

Nazi-looted cultural property

Invitation to Provenance Research Colloquium

28. August 2023

The German Lost Art Foundation invites to a lecture with Pascale Bernheim on 11th September 2023.

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Headquarters of the German Lost Art Foundation

German Lost Art Foundation | photo: Stefan Deutsch

Nazi-looted cultural property

Colonial contexts

Wartime losses

Soviet zone / GDR

New-look website

22. August 2023

The German Lost Art Foundation has relaunched its website.

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Objects after their arrival in the museum

MARKK

Colonial contexts

Museum am Rothenbaum launches provenance research project on the Hamburg South Seas Expedition

17. August 2023

MARKK begins a two-year provenance research project on collections from German colonial territories in the Pacific.

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German Lost Art Foundation | photo: Stefan Deutsch

Nazi-looted cultural property

Save the Date: Festive event to mark the 25th anniversary of the Washington Principles

14. August 2023

The German Lost Art Foundation is hosting a festive event to mark the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the “Washington Principles”, which will be held at 6 p.m. on 7 December 2023 in the Humboldt Hall of Berlin State Library, Haus unter den Linden.

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German Lost Art Foundation | photo: Stefan Deutsch

Conference to be hosted by Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, Hamburger Kunsthalle and the German Lost Art Foundation

1. August 2023

A conference is to be hosted by Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, Hamburger Kunsthalle and the German Lost Art Foundation entitled: Was tun mit Eigentum? – Die Chancen liegen in der Verantwortung. Wege des Umgangs mit Sammlungen in Stiftungen und privater Hand (“What to do with property? – The opportunities offered by responsibility. Approaches to handling collections belonging to foundations and in private ownership”). It will take place on 1 September 2023 in the Werner-Otto-Saal at Hamburger Kunsthalle.

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The painting Justitia by the Baroque artist Jürgen Ovens in an exhibition context

Museumsberg Flensburg

Nazi-looted cultural property

Museumsberg Flensburg puts on exhibition about provenance research

13. July 2023

Museumsberg Flensburg is showing the latest results of its provenance research in an exhibition entitled Sammeln verpflichtet. 10 Objekte - 10 Geschichten (“Collecting obliges. 10 objects – 10 stories”).

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three women looking at a drawing lying on a table

Jasmin Hartmann

Nazi-looted cultural property

Suspicion of looted art: Lippe State Library investigates origin of old drawings

4. July 2023

Within the research project „Ermittlung der Provenienz von 28 Handzeichnungen des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts unter Verdacht auf NS-verfolgungsbedingten Entzug in der Lippischen Landesbibliothek“ old drawings of unknown origin are examined.

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Painting of Oskar Moll with plant and books

René E. Pech, Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz

Nazi-looted cultural property

Görlitz Silesian Museum researches the provenance of a painting by Oskar Moll

27. June 2023

A short project started at the Silesian Museum in 1 June 2023 which is funded by the German Lost Art Foundation and entitled “Provenance research on the painting ‘Aechmea fasciata with books and Century Hall’, c. 1925 by Oskar Moll, Görlitz Silesian Museum, inventory number SMG 2001/1900”.

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Nazi-looted cultural property

Colonial contexts

Wartime losses

Soviet zone / GDR

Advanced training programme on provenance research enters its eighth round: registration open until 18 August

22. June 2023

The next advanced training course in the field of provenance research at the Weiterbildungszentrum der Freien Universität Berlin (FU) will be held from 11 October to 15 December 2023 with the support of the German Lost Art Foundation.

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Colonial contexts

The Antonie and Eugen Brandeis Oceania Collection is published online

31. May 2023

The Museum Natur und Mensch Freiburg has published an album on the Eugen and Antonie Brandeis Oceania Collection for inclusion in the online collection of the city’s municipal museums.

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