Advanced training programme on provenance research enters its ninth round

Registration deadline for certificate course at FU Berlin is 16 August 2024

29. May 2024

Contact

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Do feel free to get in touch with us directly – whether at the Foundation’s headquarters in Magdeburg or at our branch office in Berlin.
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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

For the ninth time, the German Lost Art Foundation is supporting FU Berlin’s high-profile advanced training programme on provenance research. The modular certificate course will be held from 25 September 2024 to 17 January 2025 in Berlin and Dresden.

Half or all of the individual modules are taught at museums where provenance research is conducted. In addition, exercises in which participants can apply what they have learned in practice form an integral part of the modules. Contributions from experts guarantee that the knowledge acquired by participants is based on a solid scholarly foundation.

The certificate course is aimed at collection managers, curators, museologists, volunteers from all museum sectors, employees in the art trade, freelance provenance researchers, employees of museum associations and employees of corporate collections as well as of private and public collections.

It has once again been possible to gain the services of established experts for the advanced training programme. They convey the full range of theoretical and practical knowledge and methods of provenance research relating to the different research contexts. Intense, practically oriented dialogue with specialists from museums and archives forms an essential part of the advanced training. In addition to Executive Chairman Prof. Dr. Gilbert Lupfer, the lecturers from the German Lost Art Foundation who will be introducing the topics and providing information about funding opportunities are Dr. Andrea Baresel-Brand and Juliane Kraske (Department for Documentation and Research Data Management), Dr. Uwe Hartmann, Mathias Deinert and Cathleen Tasler (Department for Cultural Property Losses in Europe in the 20th Century), and Dr. Larissa Förster, Dr. Jan Hüsgen, Sarah Fründt and Anna Wickes-Neira (Department for Cultural Goods and Collections from Colonial Contexts).

The cooperation partners in addition to the German Lost Art Foundation are: Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art, Research and Documentation Centre at the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Zentralarchiv der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

Information on advanced training and registration procedure
To the programme brochure