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We report on the latest developments in provenance research and on projects funded by the Foundation, as well as offering details of important new publications, exhibitions and conferences and reporting on restitutions. Feel free to send in interesting news relating to the field of provenance research to presse@kulturgutverluste.de

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German Lost Art Foundation

Humboldtstr. 12
39112 Magdeburg

Germany
Phone:  +49 (0) 391 727 763 0
E-mail:  kontakt@kulturgutverluste.de
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German Lost Art Foundation Berlin Branch Office

Seydelstr. 18
10117 Berlin

Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 391 727 763 0
E-mail: kontakt@kulturgutverluste.de

The Help Desk offers advice and assistance to victims of the Nazi regime and their descendants on questions relating to Nazi theft of cultural property. Serving as a central and initial low-threshold point of contact in Germany, it is aimed in particular at people whose place of residence is outside Germany and who are unfamiliar with German procedures, especially in connection with cultural federalism. The Help Desk seeks to provide support in taking initial steps as well as providing further contacts and information. We will also be happy to help initiate discussions with museums and other institutions.

German Lost Art Foundation, Branch Office
Dr. Susanne Meyer-Abich
Head of Help Desk

Seydelstr. 18
10117 Berlin

Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 391 727 763 0
E-mail: helpdesk@kulturgutverluste.de

Symbolic image inventory list with magnifying glass

Sammlung Schriften, Museum Fünf Kontinente Munich | photo: Nicolai Kästner

Colonial contexts

Wayne Modest receives Iris Foundation Award

22. March 2024

Dutch Professor of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies honoured as Outstanding Mid-Career Scholar

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painting by Hans Wertinger: Pfalzgraf Philipp, Bischof von Freising, 1515

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Painting Collections) | photo: Sibylle Forster

Nazi-looted cultural property

Restitution of a painting and two sculptures

20. March 2024

Bavarian State Painting Collections and Bavarian National Museum make restitution to descendants of Jakob Goldschmidt.

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Kunsthalle Mannheim (Cem Yücetas)

Nazi-looted cultural property

Arbitration tribunal and the option to lodge a unilateral request for mediation

18. March 2024

Pivotal move for reform of the Advisory Commission

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German Lost Art Foundation

Soviet zone / GDR

Project kick-off at Museum Folkwang Essen

15. March 2024

Project launch on the subject of German-German art trade relations and cultural property transfer

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Ink painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner "Die Panama Girls"

Buchheim Museum der Phantasie, Bernried am Starnberger See | Reproduktion: Nikolaus Steglich, Starnberg

Nazi-looted cultural property

Lothar-Günther Buchheim and the art market

15. March 2024

Buchheim Museum Bernried holds exhibition on research findings

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Historical inventory maps of the Landesmuseum Oldenburg

Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, photo: Marcus Kenzler

Nazi-looted cultural property

Report on provenance research in Bavaria

14. March 2024

61 restituted items and more than 1,700 search requests

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Lautarchiv | Foto: Christopher Li

Colonial contexts

Provenance research on audio documents

7. March 2024

Berlin sound archive investigates recordings of African prisoners of war from the First World War.

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German Lost Art Foundation

Nazi-looted cultural property

New recommendation issued by the Advisory Commission on Nazi-Looted Cultural Property

1. March 2024

In the case of Liebermann ./. Saxony-Anhalt Arts Foundation, the Advisory Commission has issued a recommendation in favour of the heirs.

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Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, Foto: Marcus Kenzler

Nazi-looted cultural property

Klassik Stiftung Weimar restitutes 41 autographs to heirs

28. February 2024

Most extensive case of Nazi-looted property in the holdings of the Goethe and Schiller Archive

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Writings collection at Museum Fünf Kontinente Munich

Museum Fünf Kontinente Munich, photo: Nicolai Kästner

Colonial contexts

Namibian cultural heritage in German-speaking institutions

26. February 2024

German Lost Art Foundation publishes new working paper entitled Locating Namibian Cultural Heritage in Museums and Universities in German-Speaking Countries. A Finding Aid for Provenance Research.

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