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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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SPK returns human remains and burial objects to Hawai'i

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, SPK) has donated four iwi kūpuna (human remains of Hawaiian descent) and seven moepū (burial objects) to Hui Iwi Kuamo'o, a Hawaiian First Nations organization representing the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA).
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Nazi-looted cultural property

Moses Mendelssohn Akademie Halberstadt investigates the Ernst Wolff book collection

At Moses Mendelssohn Akademie Halberstadt, a team under the academic direction of Nora M. Kißling has been working on a research project devoted to the Ernst Wolff book collection since December 2022.
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Prayer book with handwritten entry
Repro: Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Nazi-looted cultural property

Library of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt restitutes Holocaust victim’s prayer book to granddaughter

The library of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) has restituted a copy of the prayer book Sidur Sefat Emet, which is still widely used in Germany, to the descendant of a Jewish citizen of Sulzbürg who was murdered under National Socialism.
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German Lost Art Foundation
Nazi-looted cultural property

Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Bavarian State Painting Collections commemorate victims of Nazi art looting

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) with the Central Archive of the National Museums in Berlin, together with the Bavarian State Painting Collections, has launched a commemorative project funded with 690,000 euros from the budget of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
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German Lost Art Foundation
Nazi-looted cultural property

JDCRP publishes initial list with names of some 2,100 Jewish collectors

The Jew­ish Dig­i­tal Cul­tur­al Re­cov­ery Project (JD­CRP) Foun­da­tion has pub­lished an ini­tial list on its web­site https://jd­crp.org con­tain­ing the names of some 2,100 Jew­ish col­lec­tors from eight Eu­ro­pean coun­tries whose works of art and oth­er cul­tur­al prop­er­ty were stolen, con­fis­cat­ed or forcibly sold by the Na­tion­al So­cial­ists.
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German Lost Art Foundation
Nazi-looted cultural property

Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes three works from the Littmann collection

The Prus­sian Cul­tur­al Her­itage Foun­da­tion (SPK) has resti­tut­ed three works from the Neue Na­tion­al­ga­lerie of the Berlin State Mu­se­ums to the heirs of the lawyer Is­mar Littmann.
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Titelbild für den Erklärfilm "Was ist Provenienzforschung?"
German Lost Art Foundation
Nazi-looted cultural property
Colonial contexts
Wartime losses
Soviet zone / GDR

The German Lost Art Foundation publishes explanatory films on provenance research

The German Lost Art Foundation has published explanatory films on central topics of provenance research on its website. The three vividly animated films provide answers to the questions: "What is provenance research?", "What are just and fair solutions?" and "What is the Lost Art Database?".
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Title page with stamp from: Johann Rudolph Glauber, Pharmacopaeae Spagyricae, Amsterdam 1668 (detail)
HAB
Nazi-looted cultural property

The Herzog August Library restitutes historic work to the Grand National Mother Lodge “The Three Globes”

The li­brary Her­zog Au­gust Bib­lio­thek (HAB) has re­turned a mul­ti-vol­ume phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal work by phar­ma­cist and al­chemist Jo­hann Rudolph Glauber (1604-1670) to its right­ful own­er, name­ly the Grand Na­tion­al Moth­er Lodge “The Three Globes”.
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Colonial contexts

Museum Natur und Mensch Freiburg is once again to receive funding from the German Lost Art Foundation

In Jan­uary 2023, the Mu­se­um Natur und Men­sch Freiburg start­ed to un­der­take more in-depth prove­nance re­search in­to items in its eth­no­log­i­cal col­lec­tion by launch­ing a project en­ti­tled Die S.M.S. Cor­moran, deutsche ‚Straf­ex­pe­di­tio­nen‘ in Ozeanien und die Eth­nol­o­gis­che Samm­lung des Mu­se­ums Natur und Men­sch. Zum Zusam­men­hang von Kolo­nial­is­mus und dem Sam­meln von Ethno­graphi­ka (“The S.M.S. Cor­moran, Ger­man ‘puni­tive ex­pe­di­tions’ in Ocea­nia and the eth­no­log­i­cal col­lec­tion of the Mu­se­um Natur und Men­sch.
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Nazi-looted cultural property

SPK restitutes Nursing Madonna statuette to the heirs of Jakob Goldschmidt

The Prus­sian Cul­tur­al Her­itage Foun­da­tion (SPK) has re­turned a Nurs­ing Madon­na stat­uette dat­ing back to the 16th cen­tu­ry to the heirs of Jew­ish banker and en­trepreneur Jakob Gold­schmidt.
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