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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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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.
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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

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

Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual Conference

15. April 2026

Proposals for “The Future of Digital Provenance Research – Dreams and Realities” may be submitted until June 30, 2026.

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German Lost Art Foundation | photo: Stefan Deutsch

Colonial contexts

„Kolloquium Provenienzforschung“ about Burundi

8. January 2026

The German Lost Art Foundation invites you to the „Kolloquium Provenienzforschung“ on 26 January 2026 in Berlin.

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Deutsches Zentrum Kultugutverluste

Nazi-looted cultural property

New publication: Provenance & Research 2025

5. December 2025

The German Lost Art Foundation dedicates the latest issue of its periodical to the theme “Divided Biographies”.

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Exhibition view, four paintings on the walls, one object in a glass display case

Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau

Nazi-looted cultural property

Wartime losses

New exhibition in Dessau

5. December 2025

Anhalt Picture Gallery is dedicating an exhibition entitled Sammlungs(ge)schichten [Collection (His)tories] to the development of its holdings – and presenting the results of a provenance research project.

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Writings collection at Museum Fünf Kontinente Munich

Museum Fünf Kontinente Munich, photo: Nicolai Kästner

Colonial contexts

Repatriations from the Ethnological Museum

3. December 2025

Foundation Board authorises Marion Ackermann to return objects with human remains to Ghana and to hold discussions with Australian authorities regarding spiritual objects.

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Handwritten document from the 15th century, paper, many seals attached to the bottom edge

GStA PK | photo: Christine Ziegler

Nazi-looted cultural property

Wartime losses

Federal Government returns cultural property to Poland

2. December 2025

The items returned include 73 parchment charters of the Teutonic Order from the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, as well as the head of St. James the Greater.

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German Lost Art Foundation

Nazi-looted cultural property

Court of Arbitration for Nazi-looted Cultural Property launched

1. December 2025

New institution to decide disputed cases involving the restitution of cultural property

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Nazi-looted cultural property

Colonial contexts

Wartime losses

Soviet zone / GDR

New Executive Chair takes office

28. November 2025

Professor Dr. Meike Hopp assumes office as Executive Chair of the German Lost Art Foundation on 1 December 2025.

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German Lost Art Foundation

Nazi-looted cultural property

Amicable settlement through mediation by the Advisory Commission

18. November 2025

An amicable settlement has been reached in the matter Dr. and Mrs. Max Stern Foundation v. Landschaftsverband Rheinland and heirs of Hugo Heinemann v. Landschaftsverband Rheinland.

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Linden-Museum Stuttgart | photo: Dominik Drasdow

Colonial contexts

Cultural Goods from Cameroon in German Museums

29. October 2025

The Linden-Museum Stuttgart and the German Lost Art Foundation initiate a research project in five ethnographic collections.

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