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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

Initial results of new Gurlitt research

The short re­ports with in­ter­im re­sults, so-called Ob­ject Record Ex­cerpts, on art­works from Cor­nelius Gurlitt’s Salzburg es­tate are now pub­licly avail­able. The Ob­ject Record Ex­cerpts on the ori­gin of 189 art­works from Gurlitt’s Salzburg es­tate are now pub­licly avail­able on the project’s web­site and on www.lostart.de.
Colonial contexts

German Lost Art Foundation takes on key role in initiative to reappraise the provenance of colonial objects in German museums

At its meet­ing on April 23, 2018 in Magde­burg, the Foun­da­tion Board tasked the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion with de­vel­op­ing guide­lines for project fund­ing re­lat­ing to cul­tur­al ob­jects orig­i­nat­ing from the colo­nial era.
Nazi-looted cultural property

First junior professorship for provenance research at the University of Hamburg—Grütters: Further strengthening of provenance research in Germany

Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation approves approx. €1.6 million for 21 provenance research projects

For the first time, an ap­pli­ca­tion from a pri­vate in­di­vid­u­al for prove­nance re­search fund­ing has been ac­cept­ed.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Paris 1940–1944: Theft and trade of cultural assets under German occupation – transnational review opens up new perspectives for provenance research

The conference brings to­geth­er no­table in­ter­na­tion­al ex­perts who will present the find­ings of their re­spec­tive re­search.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Project Gurlitt identifies painting by Thomas Couture as Nazi-looted art

The paint­ing "Por­trait de je­une femme as­sise" (Por­trait of a Seat­ed Young Wom­an) be­longed to one of the most fa­mous French vic­tims of the Nazi regime, the high-rank­ing Jew­ish politi­cian and an­ti-Nazi Georges Man­del.
Soviet zone / GDR

The German Lost Art Foundation launches pilot projects to investigate the cultural assets confiscated in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR

The Foun­da­tion will co­op­er­ate with two key part­ners: the Han­nah Arendt In­sti­tute for Re­search on To­tal­i­tar­i­an­ism (HAIT) at the Dres­den Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy and the Fed­er­al Com­mis­sion­er for the Records of the State Se­cu­ri­ty Ser­vice of the for­mer Ger­man Demo­crat­ic Re­pub­lic (BStU).
Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation approves approx. €2.15 million for 22 provenance research projects

In the first ap­pli­ca­tion round of 2017 the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion’s ex­ec­u­tive board ap­proved 22 ap­pli­ca­tions from mu­se­ums, li­braries, aca­dem­ic in­sti­tu­tions and archives.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Cornelius Gurlitt’s business documentation now accessible in the Federal Archives

Dig­i­tized busi­ness doc­u­ments from the es­tate of art deal­er Cor­nelius Gurlitt can now be viewed in the read­ing rooms of the Fed­er­al Archive and used for prove­nance re­search. Pre­lim­i­nary work for the Gurlitt Prove­nance Re­search project forms the ba­sis for re­search in­to the art deal­er’s busi­ness doc­u­ments.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Foundation provides online access to research findings relating to Nazi-confiscated property and lays the foundation for a future research database

The Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion is pro­vid­ing access to the find­ings of prove­nance re­search projects sup­port­ed with pub­lic funds since 2008.