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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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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

Drawing, study of a Frederickian officer

Kupferstichkabinett – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin | photo: Dietmar Katz

Nazi-looted cultural property

Federal Government restitutes Nazi-looted art from the Leo Lewin Collection

25. February 2025

Menzel drawing handed over to descendants of the Jewish art collector from Breslau

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Two people look at a book, shelves with files in the background

Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt | photo: Killyen

Nazi-looted cultural property

Luther Memorials Foundation collection to be examined for Nazi-looted art

24. February 2025

A provenance research project in Saxony-Anhalt is currently in progress to investigate acquisitions in the period 1933 – 1945.

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Historical inventory maps of the Landesmuseum Oldenburg

Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, photo: Marcus Kenzler

Nazi-looted cultural property

First check at the Eifelmuseum

21. February 2025

Collection being examined for Nazi-looted property / Museumsverband Rheinland-Pfalz is coordinating project involving four museums

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Stadtmuseum and Stadtarchiv Eschwege

Nazi-looted cultural property

Provenance research project launched into nearly 70 objects in Hesse

19. February 2025

Cooperation between the museum association Museumsverband Hessen and the municipal museums of Bad Wildungen and Eschwege investigates Nazi-looted property

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