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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

Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste | Foto: Dirk Mahler

Nazi-looted cultural property

Award for Hermann Simon

4. October 2023

Chairman of the Advisory Board “Nazi confiscated art” receives Cross of Merit 1st Class.

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Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, Foto: Marcus Kenzler

Nazi-looted cultural property

Memorandum issued by the Advisory Commission on Nazi-Looted Cultural Property

19. September 2023

The Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish property, has published a memorandum on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.

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Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Nazi-looted cultural property

Statement by the Research Association for Provenance Research

19. September 2023

The board of the Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e. V. (Research Association for Provenance Research) contributes structural considerations of its own to the reform of the restitution of Nazi-looted cultural property.

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Symbolic image inventory list with magnifying glass

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

Colonial contexts

Stade museums publish wiki of their provenance research project

8. September 2023

The Stade museums have published a wiki on the Karl Braun Collection and the Amani Institute in Tanzania.

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Kunsthalle Mannheim (Cem Yücetas)

Nazi-looted cultural property

German Maritime Museum publishes LostLift database

1. September 2023

Information on the relocation property of Jewish refugees expropriated during the Nazi era is now available at https://lostlift.dsm.museum.

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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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