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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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Colonial contexts

Colonial Contexts Funding Committee is formed

Prof. Bar­bara Planken­stein­er was elected as its chair and Prof. Mon­i­ca June­ja as its deputy chair.
Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation approves approx. €2 million for 20 provenance research projects

For the first time, also a pri­vate­ly fund­ed sci­en­tif­ic and tech­ni­cal mu­se­um—Stiftung Deutsches Op­tis­ches Mu­se­um Je­na—is de­vot­ing it­self to re­search­ing its col­lec­tion for Nazi-con­fis­cat­ed prop­er­ty.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Ferdinand von Schirach allows historic family collection to be examined for Nazi-confiscated property

Af­ter seek­ing ad­vice from the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion, von Schirach de­cid­ed to use his own funds to fi­nance a study of the art­works that once be­longed to his grand­par­ents, Bal­dur and Hen­ri­ette von Schirach.
Colonial contexts

Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (KMK): Key aspects of dealing with colonial looted art

The key points re­late to im­por­tant ac­tion ar­eas such as trans­paren­cy, prove­nance re­search and the re­turn of cul­tur­al goods.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Gurlitt provenance research identifies new case of Nazi-confiscated art

The paint­ing “Quai de Clichy” by Paul Signac has been identified as Nazi-con­fis­cat­ed art.
Colonial contexts

Confronting colonial history - the German Lost Art Foundation launches a new funding programme

A fund­ing com­mit­tee set up for this pur­pose will now be­gin as­sess­ing fundin­g ap­pli­ca­tions for prove­nance re­search on col­lec­tions from colo­nial con­texts.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Conclusions of the Specialist Conference “20 Years of Washington Principles: Roadmap for the Future”

The ap­prox­i­mate­ly 800 par­tic­i­pants ex­am­ined the im­ple­men­ta­tion of the prin­ci­ples, which have played a cen­tral role in resti­tut­ing Nazi stolen prop­er­ty world­wide.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Germany and the US express joint commitment to intensifying efforts to implement the Washington Principles

Min­is­ter of State Moni­ka Grüt­ters: "In­ves­ti­gat­ing art theft by the Na­tion­al So­cial­ists is a last­ing obli­ga­tion, es­pe­cial­ly for Ger­many."
Colonial contexts

Foundation Board establishes basis for project funding in the field of cultural goods from colonial contexts

The new fund­ing guide­line on re­search in­to the prove­nance of cul­tur­al goods from colo­nial con­texts and on rel­e­vant ba­sic re­search will come in­to ef­fect on Jan­uary 1, 2019.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Gurlitt Provenance Research project identifies four works of Nazi-confiscated art

Four draw­ings by the artists Charles Do­minique Joseph Eisen, Au­gustin de Saint-Aubin and Anne Val­lay­er-Coster can be traced back to the Jew­ish fam­i­ly Deutsch de la Meur­the in Paris, in whose pri­vate home they were hang­ing.