Press

The press department will be happy to answer any questions you may have! Here you will also find current press releases and press photographs for download for the purpose of reporting on the Foundation.

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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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Soviet zone / GDR

The German Lost Art Foundation is organizing the digital fall conference "VEB Kunst – Kulturgutentziehung und Handel in der DDR" (VEB art – cultural property confiscation and trade in the GDR)

The Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion is shed­ding light on a field in prove­nance re­search that has so far been lit­tle dis­cussed in pub­lic: the do­mes­tic and for­eign trade in art and
an­tiq­ui­ties on the ter­ri­to­ry of the for­mer GDR be­tween 1945 and 1990.
Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation approves approximately 1.97 million Euros for 25 provenance research projects in the area of "Nazi-looted art" in the second round of funding in 2020

The board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion has ap­proved around 1.97 mil­lion Eu­ros in fund­ing for the sec­ond ap­pli­ca­tion round in 2020 for prove­nance re­search at mu­se­ums, li­braries, aca­dem­ic in­sti­tu­tions and for three pri­vate in­di­vid­u­als.
Colonial contexts

German Lost Art Foundation approves more than one million Euros for eight research projects in colonial contexts in the second round of applications in 2020

In or­der to clar­i­fy the ori­gin of col­lec­tions from colo­nial con­texts, the board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion in Magde­burg has now ap­proved eight re­search ap­pli­ca­tions from mu­se­ums and uni­ver­si­ties in the sec­ond ap­pli­ca­tion round 2020.
Nazi-looted cultural property
Colonial contexts
Wartime losses
Soviet zone / GDR

"Provenance research must not be made available for disposal"

Against the back­drop of the coro­n­avirus cri­sis, the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion warns against mak­ing sav­ings on prove­nance re­search in Ger­man cul­tur­al in­sti­tu­tions.
Colonial contexts

German Lost Art Foundation approves approx. €650,000 in the first application round of 2020 for five research projects in the field of colonial contexts

In or­der to clar­i­fy the prove­nance of ob­jects from colo­nial con­texts in Ger­man in­sti­tu­tions, the Ex­ec­u­tive Board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion in Magde­burg has ap­proved five new re­search ap­pli­ca­tions from mu­se­ums and uni­ver­si­ties in the first ap­pli­ca­tion round of 2020.
Nazi-looted cultural property
Colonial contexts
Wartime losses
Soviet zone / GDR

Gilbert Lupfer becomes new full-time Executive Board of the German Lost Art Foundation

Gilbert Lupfer, who pre­vi­ous­ly held an hon­orary po­si­tion on the Foun­da­tion’s Ex­ec­u­tive Board, is now its sole mem­ber.
Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation approves approx. €2.87 million for 25 provenance research projects on Nazi-confiscated property in first funding round of 2020

The Ex­ec­u­tive Board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion has ap­proved ap­prox. €2.87 mil­lion for prove­nance re­search ac­tiv­i­ties at mu­se­ums, li­braries and aca­dem­ic in­sti­tu­tions, and al­so for four pri­vate in­di­vid­u­als.
Nazi-looted cultural property

New book on the Gurlitt Art Trove

Af­ter com­ple­tion of the sys­tem­at­ic study, the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion has now
re­leased a sci­en­tif­ic pub­li­ca­tion on the “Gurlitt Art Trove”.
Soviet zone / GDR

In search of lost cultural property in the Stasi files

Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion and the Fed­er­al Com­mis­sion­er for Stasi Records pub­lish a new re­search tool for prove­nance re­search.
Nazi-looted cultural property
Colonial contexts
Wartime losses
Soviet zone / GDR

Greater openness and interconnectivity in provenance research: German Lost Art Foundation launches English version of its website Proveana

At www.proveana.de, it is pos­si­ble to search the re­sults of re­search projects fund­ed to date by the Foun­da­tion and its pre­de­ces­sor, the Bu­reau for Prove­nance Re­search, as well as da­ta and re­ports on prove­nance re­search re­lat­ing to the “Gurlitt art trove”.