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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Nazi-looted cultural property
Wartime losses
Soviet zone / GDR

Gilbert Lupfer is appointed new honorary executive board of the German Lost Art Foundation

The art his­to­ri­an Prof. Dr. Gilbert Lupfer will take up his po­si­tion as the new hon­orary ex­ec­u­tive board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion on 1 April 2017.
Nazi-looted cultural property

First public conference in Saxony-Anhalt, the federal state in which the German Lost Art Foundation is based

Conference of the German Lost Art Foundation: "The search for Nazi-confiscated property – Provenance research in Saxony-Anhalt"
Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation executive board approves approx. €2 million for 24 provenance research projects

An arche­o­log­i­cal mu­se­um in Frank­furt am Main and a ship­ping mu­se­um in Bre­mer­haven will ex­am­ine their own hold­ings for Nazi-con­fis­cat­ed prop­er­ty for the first time.
Soviet zone / GDR

The confiscation of cultural assets in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR – The current state of research and perspectives

The con­fer­ence of the German Lost Art Foundation on Novem­ber 21, 2016 gave an overview of the cur­rent state of re­search in­to the con­fis­ca­tion of cul­tur­al as­sets in the So­vi­et Oc­cu­pa­tion Zone and the GDR.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Monika Grütters, on the death of culture senator Barbara Kisseler

Monika Grütters: "one of Ger­many’s most dis­tin­guished cul­tur­al politi­cians"
Nazi-looted cultural property

Grütters: We will miss her voice

The for­mer pres­i­dent of the Fed­er­al Con­sti­tu­tion­al Court Jut­ta Lim­bach has passed away. State Min­is­ter of Cul­tur­al Af­fairs Grüt­ters hon­oured the le­gal schol­ar, politi­cian and wom­an of cul­ture.
Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation approves 1.5 million euros for 15 provenance research projects

The Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion has decided to fi­nance re­search pro­pos­als, sub­mit­ted by mu­se­ums, li­braries, re­search in­sti­tutes and archives.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Documents from Gurlitt’s estate now accessible at the German Federal Archives

The doc­u­ments in ques­tion com­prise some 600 his­toric pho­tos dat­ing be­tween 1936 and 1941, found in pho­to al­bums at the Ham­burg art gallery pre­vi­ous­ly owned by the art deal­er Hilde­brand Gurlitt (1936-1941), Cor­nelius Gurlitt’s fa­ther, along with an­oth­er 1,800 pho­tos of art­works.
Nazi-looted cultural property

Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Papier appointed as member of the Advisory Commission for the clarification of restitution issues relating to cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution

Prof. Moni­ka Grüt­ters, Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment Com­mis­sion­er for Cul­ture and Me­dia, has ap­point­ed Prof. Dr Hans-Jür­gen Pa­pi­er, con­sti­tu­tion­al law ex­pert and for­mer pres­i­dent of the Fed­er­al Con­sti­tu­tion­al Court, as a mem­ber of the Ad­vi­so­ry Com­mis­sion, which was formed in 2003.
Nazi-looted cultural property

German Lost Art Foundation approves funding for 36 projects of provenance research

The Foun­da­tion agreed to fund projects at mu­se­ums, li­braries, aca­dem­ic in­sti­tu­tions and archives.