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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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The painting Justitia by the Baroque artist Jürgen Ovens in an exhibition context
Museumsberg Flensburg
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Museumsberg Flensburg puts on exhibition about provenance research

Museumsberg Flensburg is showing the latest results of its provenance research in an exhibition entitled Sammeln verpflichtet. 10 Objekte - 10 Geschichten (“Collecting obliges. 10 objects – 10 stories”).
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three women looking at a drawing lying on a table
Jasmin Hartmann
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Suspicion of looted art: Lippe State Library investigates origin of old drawings

Within the research project „Ermittlung der Provenienz von 28 Handzeichnungen des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts unter Verdacht auf NS-verfolgungsbedingten Entzug in der Lippischen Landesbibliothek“ old drawings of unknown origin are examined.
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Painting of Oskar Moll with plant and books
René E. Pech, Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz
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Görlitz Silesian Museum researches the provenance of a painting by Oskar Moll

A short project started at the Silesian Museum in 1 June 2023 which is funded by the German Lost Art Foundation and entitled “Provenance research on the painting ‘Aechmea fasciata with books and Century Hall’, c. 1925 by Oskar Moll, Görlitz Silesian Museum, inventory number SMG 2001/1900”.
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Advanced training programme on provenance research enters its eighth round: registration open until 18 August

The next advanced training course in the field of provenance research at the Weiterbildungszentrum der Freien Universität Berlin (FU) will be held from 11 October to 15 December 2023 with the support of the German Lost Art Foundation.
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The Antonie and Eugen Brandeis Oceania Collection is published online

The Museum Natur und Mensch Freiburg has published an album on the Eugen and Antonie Brandeis Oceania Collection for inclusion in the online collection of the city’s municipal museums.
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candle table
Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln, Marion Mennicken, rba_d055023_01
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City of Cologne restitutes two Baroque candle tables

The City of Cologne is restituting a pair of Baroque candle tables from the property of the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln (MAKK) to the heirs of Emma Rosenthal. The two tables will remain in the MAKK after restitution, having been reacquired by the City of Cologne.
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woman is taking a picture of an apostle figure with a smartphone
Münchner Stadtmuseum
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Münchner Stadtmuseum restitutes a late medieval apostle figure

Münchner Stadtmuseum restitutes a late medieval apostle figure to the heirs of Munich antiquarian Jacques Rosenthal (1854-1937).
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Call for papers for the workshop Koloniale Kontexte in Bibliotheken (Colonial Contexts in Libraries)

The dbv commission on provenance research and provenance indexing (Kommission Provenienzforschung und Provenienzerschließung) and the project IN_CONTEXT are organising the workshop Koloniale Kontexte in Bibliotheken (Colonial Contexts in Libraries) in cooperation with the German Lost Art Foundation, to be held at the Berlin State Library (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) on 6 and 7 November 2023. A call for papers has now been issued.
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Call for Papers | conference 2024 “Photography and Provenance Research” (working title)

The German Lost Art Foundationen is calling for presentation ideas to be submitted by June 18, 2023 for the annual conference at Leipzig University Library on April 18 and 19, 2024.
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Print Yom Tov Tsahalon
HfJS
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University of Jewish Studies Heidelberg restitutes books to Budapest University of Jewish Studies

The University of Jewish Studies Heidelberg has handed over four rare prints dating back to the 16th century to the Budapest University of Jewish Studies.
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