Jasmin Hartmann takes over as head of the Koordinationsstelle für Provenienzforschung in NRW

Art his­to­ri­an Jas­min Hart­mann be­comes the head of the new­ly found­ed Ko­or­di­na­tion­sstelle für Prove­nien­z­forschung in NRW (KPF.NRW). She there­by shoul­ders re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the de­vel­op­ment and es­tab­lish­ment of the state-wide con­tact point, which, in fu­ture, will ad­vise, sup­port and net­work art and cul­tur­al her­itage pre­serv­ing in­sti­tu­tions such as mu­se­ums, archives and li­braries in all ques­tions re­gard­ing prove­nance re­search. Most re­cent­ly, Hart­mann head­ed the Prove­nance Re­search Unit of the state cap­i­tal of Düs­sel­dorf. “In Jas­min Hart­mann, we have gained a proven ex­pert in the field of prove­nance re­search to head the new co­or­di­na­tion of­fice. With her wealth of rel­e­vant ex­pe­ri­ence, she brings with her the best at­tributes for es­tab­lish­ing the KPF.NRW firm­ly in the cul­tur­al land­scape of North Rhine-West­phalia as a cen­tral net­work­ing and ad­vi­so­ry struc­ture for all ques­tions re­lat­ing to the loss of cul­tur­al as­sets,” says Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Sci­ence Is­abel Pfeif­fer-Poens­gen.

About the KPF.NRW
KPF.NRW was found­ed in 2020 by the state of North Rhine-West­phalia to­geth­er with the Land­schaftsver­band Rhein­land and Land­schaftsver­band West­falen-Lippe, and will be­gin its work on Jan­uary 1, 2022. The KPF.NRW will be lo­cat­ed in Bonn at the LVR-Lan­desMu­se­um and will func­tion as a cen­tral co­or­di­na­tion point where in­for­ma­tion on the top­ic of prove­nance re­search in North Rhine-West­phalia will be col­lect­ed and made vis­i­ble. The goals in­clude de­liv­er­ing greater trans­paren­cy with re­gard to re­search re­sults and the im­proved net­work­ing of in­sti­tu­tions and re­search projects. This co­or­di­na­tion of­fice will al­so ad­vise and net­work cul­tur­al in­sti­tu­tions. In ad­di­tion to seizures re­sult­ing from Nazi per­se­cu­tion, the fo­cus of work will al­so be on cul­tur­al prop­er­ty loss­es dur­ing the for­mer So­vi­et Oc­cu­pa­tion Zone (SBZ) and the Ger­man Demo­crat­ic Re­pub­lic (GDR), as well as the colo­nial pe­ri­od. In ad­di­tion to Jas­min Hart­mann as di­rec­tor, the KPF.NRW team con­sists of the art his­to­ri­ans Dr. Dag­mar Thesing and Miri­am Cockx. Two vol­un­teers, Is­abelle Chris­tiani and Lu­cia Seiß, will be sup­port­ing the work of KPF.NRW.