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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

Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media restitutes Nazi-looted art—Grütters: “We must render this injustice visible”

Moni­ka Grüt­ters re­turned three works of art to the de­scen­dants of Ar­mand Dorville.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Opening of the Berlin-based “Help Desk” for enquiries about cultural assets seized in the National Socialist era

Cen­tral point of con­tact in Berlin for en­quiries from those whose cul­tur­al as­sets were seized as a re­sult of per­se­cu­tion un­der the Na­tion­al So­cial­ist regime, and their de­scen­dants.
Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation and five partners publish a manual on provenance research for cultural goods seized during the Nazi regime as a result of persecution

Nazi-looted cultural property

“To truly clarify everything”: German Lost Art Foundation presents new publication series “Provenire”. Volume one: Insights into ten years of funded provenance research

The first vol­ume en­ti­tled “Prove­nien­z­forschung in deutschen Samm­lun­gen” (Prove­nance re­search in Ger­man col­lec­tions) pro­vides an in­sight in­to the ex­pe­ri­ences and find­ings from ten years of fund­ed re­search on many dif­fer­ent as­pects of Nazi-con­fis­cat­ed prop­er­ty in mu­se­ums, li­braries and archives in Ger­many.
Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation approves a further €1.9 million for 25 provenance research projects in 2019

The case of mer­chant Fe­lix Ganz is one of 25 re­search projects that are be­ing fi­nan­cial­ly sup­port­ed by the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion in Magde­burg from 2019 on­ward. He was a high­ly re­spect­ed cit­i­zen of the city of Mainz - and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media restitutes Nazi-looted art—Grütters: “It is exemplary that private individuals are taking historical responsibility”

The drawings were previously owned by the French industrialist family Deutsch de la Meurthe, who were persecuted by the Nazis and had their property expropriated.
Colonial contexts

German Lost Art Foundation approves approx. €700,000 for seven research projects in the field of colonial contexts for the first time

In or­der to clar­i­fy the prove­nance, and thus in­di­rect­ly al­so the where­abouts of items from the colo­nial era in Ger­man mu­se­ums, the Ex­ec­u­tive Board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion in Magde­burg has ini­tial­ly grant­ed a to­tal of €703,589 in fund­ing.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Gurlitt Art Trove: Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media restitutes Nazi-confiscated painting

The paint­ing “Por­trait de je­une femme as­sise” (Por­trait of a Seat­ed Young Wom­an) by Thomas Cou­ture was returned to the fam­i­ly of the orig­i­nal own­er, Georges Man­del.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media restitutes Signac painting from Gurlitt art trove — Grütters: “We will not cease our efforts to investigate Nazi art theft”

This is the sixth re­turn from the hoard of Cor­nelius Gurlitt. The art­work was dis­cov­ered by re­searchers from the Schwabing Art Trove Task­force and the Gurlitt Prove­nance Re­search project.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Reinforcement of Franco–German cooperation on Nazi-confiscated property

Fran­co–Ger­man co­op­er­a­tion agree­ment in the field of prove­nance re­search signed at the French em­bassy in Berlin