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Title page with stamp from: Johann Rudolph Glauber, Pharmacopaeae Spagyricae, Amsterdam 1668 (excerpt) (refer to: The Herzog August Library restitutes historic work to the Grand National Mother Lodge “The Three Globes”)
Topic: News
Date 2023.02.14

The Herzog August Library restitutes historic work to the Grand National Mother Lodge “The Three Globes”

The library Herzog August Bibliothek (HAB) has returned a multi-volume pharmaceutical work by pharmacist and alchemist Johann Rudolph Glauber (1604-1670) to its rightful owner, namely the Grand National Mother Lodge “The Three Globes”. Restitution was completed in autumn 2022, almost 90 years after the seizure of the work by the Gestapo in 1935. More details: The Herzog August Library restitutes historic work to the Grand National Mother Lodge “The Three Globes” …

Liste aus der Kolonialzeit mit Lupe (refer to: Museum Natur und Mensch Freiburg is once again to receive funding from the German Lost Art Foundation)
Topic: News
Date 2023.02.03

Museum Natur und Mensch Freiburg is once again to receive funding from the German Lost Art Foundation

In January 2023, the Museum Natur und Mensch Freiburg started to undertake more in-depth provenance research into items in its ethnological collection by launching a project entitled Die S.M.S. Cormoran, deutsche ‚Strafexpeditionen‘ in Ozeanien und die Ethnologische Sammlung des Museums Natur und Mensch. Zum Zusammenhang von Kolonialismus und dem Sammeln von Ethnographika (“The S.M.S. Cormoran, German ‘punitive expeditions’ in Oceania and the ethnological collection of the Museum Natur und Mensch. On the connection between colonialism and the collecting of ethnographics”). More details: Museum Natur und Mensch Freiburg is once again to receive funding from the German Lost Art Foundation …

Altakten und Inventarverzeichnisse, Altaktenarchiv Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg (refer to: SPK restitutes Nursing Madonna statuette to the heirs of Jakob Goldschmidt)
Topic: News
Date 2023.01.27

SPK restitutes Nursing Madonna statuette to the heirs of Jakob Goldschmidt

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) has returned a Nursing Madonna statuette dating back to the 16th century to the heirs of Jewish banker and entrepreneur Jakob Goldschmidt. The work was acquired in 1936 for the Sculpture Collection of the Berlin State Museums (known at the time as the Königliche Museen) and had been on loan to Museum Ulm since 1993. More details: SPK restitutes Nursing Madonna statuette to the heirs of Jakob Goldschmidt …

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Date 2022.11.02

In the second round of funding in 2022, the German Lost Art Foundation granted some 2.1 million euros for 19 provenance research projects on the subject of Nazi-looted property

In the second round of funding in 2022, the German Lost Art Foundation granted some 2.1 million euros for 19 provenance research projects on the subject of Nazi-looted property.In the second round of funding in 2022, the German Lost Art Foundation is awarding funds for 19 research projects on the subject of Nazi-looted property. In this second round of proposals, the Executive Board of the German Lost Art Foundation has approved some 2.1 million euros for provenance research to be conducted at museums, libraries and academic institutions as well as for private applicants. More: In the second round of funding in 2022, the German Lost Art Foundation granted some 2.1 million euros for 19 provenance research projects on the subject of Nazi-looted property …

Date 2022.05.25

Under the first round of proposals in 2022, the German Lost Art Foundation approved around 1.6 million euros for nine research projects dealing with colonial contexts

When we talk of former colonies, we tend to mean regions in the so-called Global South. But colonial oppression took place in the far north, too: the Sámi suffered under so-called “Nordic colonialism”. The only indigenous societies in Europe – those situated in the northern regions of Norway, Finland, Sweden and the Kola Peninsula in Russia – lost most of the material evidence of their culture as a result of oppression by the nation states. The most important Sámi collection outside Northern Europe is currently to be found in the Museum Europäischer Kulturen (MEK – Museum of European Cultures) in Berlin-Dahlem. This inventory is now to be systematically processed: as part of a project funded by the German Lost Art Foundation and in close cooperation with Sámi partners, the MEK is investigating the origins of some 1,000 objects and photographs. More: Under the first round of proposals in 2022, the German Lost Art Foundation approved around 1.6 million euros for nine research projects dealing with colonial contexts …