SKD publishes project results on the reconstruction of Gustav von Klemperer’s porcelain collection

The project, fund­ed by the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion, was ded­i­cat­ed to this pre­cious and ex­ten­sive col­lec­tion, whose fate ex­em­pli­fies that of nu­mer­ous Jew­ish col­lec­tions dur­ing the Na­tion­al So­cial­ist era and is close­ly linked to the in­sti­tu­tion­al his­to­ry of the Porce­lain Col­lec­tion at­tributable to the Staatliche Kun­st­samm­lun­gen Dres­den. The cen­tral goal pur­sued by the project was to de­ter­mine the routes by which the porce­lain spec­i­mens were lost, piece by piece, and to pub­lish all loss­es in the Lost Art database.

The web­site al­so aimed to present the fate of the von Klem­per­er fam­i­ly in terms of their per­se­cu­tion, as well as the his­to­ry of the fam­i­ly and its sig­nif­i­cance for the city of Dres­den. Schol­ars and mem­bers of the von Klem­per­er fam­i­ly en­rich the project re­sults with es­says, films and pho­tos, among oth­er things.
The re­spect­ed Dres­den banker Gus­tav von Klem­per­er (Edler von Kle­me­nau) and his wife Char­lotte owned prob­a­bly the most ex­ten­sive and im­por­tant pri­vate col­lec­tion of Meis­sen porce­lain of the 18th cen­tu­ry in Ger­many with more than 900 ob­jects.

All in­for­ma­tion and re­sults are pub­lished in Ger­man and En­glish at www.skd.mu­se­um/gus­tav-von-klem­per­er