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Date 2023.02.24

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 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. More details: JDCRP publishes initial list with names of some 2,100 Jewish collectors …

Altakten und Inventarverzeichnisse, Altaktenarchiv Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg (refer to: JDCRP publishes initial list with names of some 2,100 Jewish collectors)
Altes Depot des Potsdam Museums aus dem Jahr 2007 (refer to: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes three works from the Littmann collection)
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Date 2023.02.17

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. More details: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes three works from the Littmann collection …

Lynn Rother: Kunst durch Kredit. Die Berliner Museen und ihre Erwerbungen von der Dresdner Bank 1935 (refer to: Lynn Rother: Kunst durch Kredit. Die Berliner Museen und ihre Erwerbungen von der Dresdner Bank 1935)
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Lynn Rother: Kunst durch Kredit. Die Berliner Museen und ihre Erwerbungen von der Dresdner Bank 1935

Lynn Rother, Senior Provenance Specialist at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, describes the transaction in which the State of Prussia bought more than 4,000 artworks from the Dresdner Bank for the Berlin museums for the huge sum of 7.5 million Reichsmarks on August 15, 1935. The transaction is explored here for the first time from an art historical and banking perspective. More details: Lynn Rother: Kunst durch Kredit. Die Berliner Museen und ihre Erwerbungen von der Dresdner Bank 1935 …