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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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Nazi-looted cultural property
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Soviet zone / GDR

New series “Working Paper Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste” published

The German Lost Art Foundation has published the first dossier in its new series “Working Paper Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste”. In the series "Working Paper Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste" the German Lost Art Foundation intermittently publishes current research papers online from all funding areas and the Foundation’s general activities. These include dossiers, guidelines, research aids, research reports and overviews of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution (so-called Nazi-looted art), war-related removal or relocation of cultural assets (so-called trophy art), expropriation of cultural property in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR, and cultural goods and collections from colonial contexts.
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Sarah Fründt and Sabrina Werner of the German lost Art Foundation talking to Ndeenda Shivute and Golda Ha-eiros. (from left to right)
German Lost Art Foundation / Larissa Förster
Colonial contexts

German Lost Art Foundation receives visitors from Namibia

Between October 25 and November 1, the Berlin branch of the German Lost Art Foundation hosted Namibian museum curators. Golda Ha-eiros from the National Museum of Namibia in Windhoek and Ndeenda Shivute from the National Maritime Museum in Lüderitz informed themselves about funding opportunities and other activities in the field of colonial contexts, the development of respective debates in Germany and the research database Proveana.
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Nazi-looted cultural property
Colonial contexts

Apply for projects now! Deadline ends 1.1.2022

The German Lost Art Foundation in Magdeburg is once again providing funding for provenance research projects focusing on “Nazi-looted art” and “Colonial Contexts”. The next application deadline for long-term funding in both fields is January 1, 2022. The Foundation funds individual, short-term research needs in both areas on a year-round basis and without a deadline.
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Dr. Michael Hering (left) in conversation with the heir of the Viennese collector Richard Stein, Mr. Felix Bloch.
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Photo: Sabine Wölfel
Nazi-looted cultural property

The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München has restituted Rudolf von Alt’s work “Häuser in Teplitz”

The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich has returned the watercolor entitled “Häuser in Teplitz” by Rudolf von Alt to the heirs of the original owner. On October 15, 2021, the Minister of Art – Bernd Sibler – and the Director of the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung” in Munich – Michael Hering – handed over the work to the representative of the heirs of the Viennese collector Richard Stein, Mr. Felix Bloch.
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Nazi-looted cultural property
Colonial contexts
Wartime losses
Soviet zone / GDR

Call for Papers: transfer – Journal for Provenance Research and Collection History

Interested scientists are being invited to submit contributions to the journal project transfer for the first annual issue in 2022.
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The painting "Buchsbaumgarten" of the painter Emil Nolde
Nolde Stiftung Seebüll, Photo: Bernd Kirtz
Nazi-looted cultural property

The Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum has restituted Emil Nolde’s painting entitled “Buchsbaumgarten”

The Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum has returned the painting entitled “Buchsbaumgarten” by Emil Nolde to the heirs of the former owners. The painting is to be offered for sale in the year-end auction from December 9 to 11, 2021 in Munich at Ketterer-Kunst.
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Nazi-looted cultural property

Gustav Lübcke Museum in Hamm explores 70 selected paintings and graphics

The Gustav Lübcke Museum in Hamm has begun investigating the provenance of 70 selected paintings and graphic works. In 2016, two objects from the collection were clearly identified as cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution and returned to the descendants of the former owners in 2019.
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Colonial contexts

Online Autumn Conference of the German Lost Art Foundation from November 17 to 19, 2021

The con­fer­ence, "The Long His­to­ry of Claims for the Re­turn of Cul­tur­al Her­itage from Colo­nial Con­texts" will be held online on Novem­ber 17-19, 2021 in cooperation with the Prus­sian Cul­tur­al Her­itage Foun­da­tion and The Re­search Cen­ter for Ma­te­ri­al Cul­ture of the Na­tion­al Mu­se­um of World Cul­tures, the Nether­lands.
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Popular “Monatsblätter”, Jewish Museum of Westphalia.
JMW, Photo: David Bachar and Navina Verheyen
Nazi-looted cultural property

After more than 75 years: The Jewish Museum of Westphalia restitutes book to the Jewish Community of Frankfurt am Main

On September 2, the Jewish Museum of Westphalia returned a historical book to the Jewish Community of Frankfurt am Main. The manuscript was identified as belonging to the library of the former Israelite Community of Frankfurt am Main as part of a research project funded by the German Lost Art Foundation.
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The von Klemperer family at Wiener Straße 25 (from left: Victor, Gustav with Peter Ralph, Charlotte with Sophie Charlotte, Sophie, Frieda with Lily, Ralph Leopold (seated), Herbert Otto), approx. 1911
The von Klemperer Family
Nazi-looted cultural property

SKD publishes project results on the reconstruction of Gustav von Klemperer’s porcelain collection

The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden have published the project results for the reconstruction of the porcelain collection of the Dresden banker Gustav von Klemperer online on their own website after a project duration of two years.
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