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 …
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 …