New explanatory videos

The German Lost Art Foundation has made three more videos available on important topics in the field of provenance research – for free download from this website.

13. June 2024

Contact

Do you have any questions?

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.
See here for answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ)

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

The German Lost Art Foundation has produced a second series of explanatory videos on provenance research topics and made them available in the media library on this website. The animated films provide basic information on the Foundation’s key funding areas, with one video each on “The theft of cultural property by the National Socialists”, “The looting of cultural goods and collections in colonial contexts” and “The looting of cultural property in Soviet occupation zone and GDR”.

The videos can be viewed on the website but they can also be downloaded free of charge and used by institutions such as museums, libraries or archives, enabling the latter to incorporate issues of provenance research in their educational work – e.g. in multimedia guides, exhibitions or websites.

The explanatory videos are published in collaboration with the agency bildbad under the Creative Commons licence “CC BY-NC-ND 4.0” (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International) and are also available with English subtitles.

We look forward to receiving feedback on use of the videos at presse@kulturgutverluste.de