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German Lost Art Foundation
Lena Grundhuber
Spokeswoman
Humboldtstr. 12
39112 Magdeburg
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 391 727 763 35
E-mail: pressoffice@germanlostartfoundation.org

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Nazi-looted cultural property

In the first round of funding in 2022, the German Lost Art Foundation granted some 3.1 million euros for 24 provenance research projects on the subject of Nazi-looted property

On the rec­om­men­da­tion of its fund­ing ad­vi­so­ry board, the Ex­ec­u­tive Board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion has ap­proved some 3.1 mil­lion eu­ros in this first round of pro­pos­als for prove­nance re­search to be con­duct­ed at mu­se­ums, li­braries, aca­dem­ic in­sti­tu­tions as well as for pri­vate ap­pli­cants.
Soviet zone / GDR

Expropriated, confiscated, sold: German Lost Art Foundation publishes scholarly anthology on the reappraisal of the loss of cultural property in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR

The German Lost Art Foundation in Magdeburg is bringing out an anthology entitled Enteignet, entzogen, verkauft (‘Expropriated, confiscated, sold’) which will be officially published on 21 March 2022 and sheds scholarly light on the state-organised confiscation of cultural property in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR.
Nazi-looted cultural property
Wartime losses

“Lost Art” website relaunched

The web­site of the most ex­ten­sive database world­wide for the search for Nazi-loot­ed art and so-called tro­phy art on www.lostart.de/en was re­designed in a more con­tem­po­rary style and with clear­er struc­tures.
Colonial contexts

“Dealing with our own colonial past”

The German Lost Art Foundation hosts the digital autumn conference “The Long History of Claims for the Return of Cultural Heritage from Colonial Contexts”.
Colonial contexts

German Lost Art Foundation awards funds for research on Benin bronzes and also grants approximately 912,000 euros for long-term research projects on colonial contexts

With the sup­port of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion, the prove­nance of around 90 Benin bronzes is to be in­ves­ti­gat­ed.
Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation approves approximately 2.1 million euros for 20 provenance research projects in the area of “Nazi-looted art” in the second round of funding in 2021

The Ex­ec­u­tive Board of the Magde­burg-based foun­da­tion ap­proved ap­prox­i­mate­ly 2.1 mil­lion eu­ros for prove­nance re­search at mu­se­ums, li­braries, aca­dem­ic in­sti­tu­tions and for four pri­vate ap­pli­cants.
Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation approves approximately 2.8 million Euros for 31 provenance research projects in the area of "Nazi-looted art" in the first round of funding in 2021

He was con­sid­ered a close friend of Hitler, was very well con­nect­ed in the Nazi state – and founder of to­day's Ger­man Hunt­ing and Fish­ing Mu­se­um in Mu­nich.
Colonial contexts

German Lost Art Foundation approves around 685,000 Euros for five research projects on colonial contexts in the first application round 2021

In or­der to clar­i­fy where and un­der what cir­cum­stances ob­jects and hu­man re­mains from colonial contexts came in­to Ger­man col­lec­tions, the board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion in Magde­burg has now ap­proved five re­search ap­pli­ca­tions.
Colonial contexts

Also possible at short notice: German Lost Art Foundation awards funds for research on Benin bronzes

The Foun­da­tion can pro­vide up to 25,000 Eu­ros for a project du­ra­tion of up to six months for prove­nance re­search on in­di­vid­u­al ob­jects or small­er groups of ob­jects.
Nazi-looted cultural property
Colonial contexts
Soviet zone / GDR

More money for provenance research: The German Lost Art Foundation expands its research funding

In 2021, the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion will re­ceive a to­tal of 1.5 mil­lion Eu­ros more than last year.