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

Contact

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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

Berlin
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) 391 727 763 0
E-mail: helpdesk@kulturgutverluste.de

Helena Heilig

Nazi-looted cultural property

New Fellowship

7. June 2024

The Albert Ottenbacher Fellowship at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich supports research projects on provenance research.

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Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste | Foto: Lena Grundhuber

Nazi-looted cultural property

Colonial contexts

Wartime losses

Soviet zone / GDR

“Provenance Research and Photography” – event documentation now online

22. May 2024

All contributions to the Annual Conference 2024 of the German Lost Art Foundation are now available in the website media library.

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Museum Glauchau | photo: Gregor Lorenz

Nazi-looted cultural property

Museum Glauchau restitutes vase ensemble

17. May 2024

Rightful heirs of the Ottmar Strauss Collection, Cologne, to receive three Kangxi vases

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Historical inventory maps of the Landesmuseum Oldenburg

Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, photo: Marcus Kenzler

Nazi-looted cultural property

Lecture series 'Provenienz: NRW' at the University of Bonn

25. April 2024

The 2024 summer semester series focuses on collecting and the art trade in the region.

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Laura-Marijke Hecker

Nazi-looted cultural property

Eight Japanese wooden figures restituted

16. April 2024

Art objects from the Herbert Ginsberg Collection are returned to descendants

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Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Museum August Kestner | Fotograf: Detlef Jürges

Wartime losses

Hanover returns antique jug to Greece

9. April 2024

The early Corinthian jug was looted during the Second World War.

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German Lost Art Foundation

Colonial contexts

Working paper is presented in Namibia

9. April 2024

The study is presented in Windhoek on the subject of cultural goods and collections from Namibia in institutions in German-speaking countries.

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Symbolic image inventory list with magnifying glass

Sammlung Schriften, Museum Fünf Kontinente Munich | photo: Nicolai Kästner

Nazi-looted cultural property

Colonial contexts

Wartime losses

Soviet zone / GDR

10 April is Provenance Research Day

8. April 2024

This year sees the sixth international day dedicated to celebrating provenance research.

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Museum Aschersleben | photo: Ray Behringer

Nazi-looted cultural property

Colonial contexts

Soviet zone / GDR

Highly productive provenance research in Saxony-Anhalt

4. April 2024

Museum association presents a guide, reveals findings yielded by first checks at three museums, and launches a project website.

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Plakat der Sonderausstellung „Herkunft [un]geklärt“

GDKE - Landesmuseum Mainz | Design: Hausgrafik GbR Darmstadt.

Nazi-looted cultural property

Special exhibition entitled Herkunft [un]geklärt at Mainz State Museum

28. March 2024

New findings relating to Mainz, city of art, under National Socialism will be presented on Provenance Research Day.

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