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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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Nazi-looted cultural property

Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen and Hamburger Kunsthalle jointly research the origin of 45 works of art

On June 1, 2021, the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen began working together with the Hamburger Kunsthalle to clarify the provenance of 45 works of art that, even after intensive provenance research, still show gaps in their provenance with regard to possible Nazi-looted art and are, therefore, to be classified as questionable.
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Colonial contexts

Save the Date: Virtual Autumn Conference of the German Lost Art Foundation from November 17 to 19, 2021

The conference, "The Long History of Claims for the Return of Cultural Heritage from Colonial Contexts," will be held from November 17-19, 2021 as a virtual conference in cooperation with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and The Research Center for Material Culture of the National Museum of World Cultures, the Netherlands.
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“Kompetenznetzwerk Kulturgutschutz in Deutschland - NEXUD” launched to combat illegal trade in cultural property

The network entitled “Kompetenznetzwerk Kulturgutschutz in Deutschland – NEXUD” is now in place to help combat the trade in looted and otherwise illegally imported cultural property. It pools scientific expertise at universities, non-university research institutions and cultural property preservation institutions – giving federal and state authorities systematized access to scientific expertise, in order to identify ancient or archaeological cultural property.
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Nazi-looted cultural property

MARKK Hamburg examines selected inventories for collection, acquisition and object history

At Hamburg’s Museum am Rothenbaum – Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK), a provenance research project funded by the German Lost Art Foundation began in June 2021. In this context, the inventory groups “Object transfers held by public institutions after 1945” and “Judaica objects” are the subject of examination, as well as the clarification of ownership status relating to previously identified individual bundles.
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Colonial contexts

The German Lost Art Foundation mourns the death of Dr Jeremy Silvester

On Monday, July 5, 2021, historian Jeremy Silvester succumbed to his battle with COVID-19 in Windhoek. His death is inconceivable and shakes us deeply – professionally and personally.
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Ceremony for the handover of human remains to a delegation from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa at Übersee-Museum Bremen
Volker Beinhorn, Übersee-Museum Bremen
Colonial contexts

The Deutscher Museumsbund publishes new guide on handling human remains

The Deutscher Museumsbund has published a new guide on handling human remains in museums and collections. It offers clear regulations and tools for museums and collections and aims to raise awareness of the ethical dimension in dealing with this sensitive collection material.
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The oil painting "Naples" by the painter Rudolf von Alt
Kunstverwaltung des Bundes
Nazi-looted cultural property

The Federal Arts Administration has restituted the oil painting “Neapel" by the painter Rudolf von Alt

The Federal Arts Administration restituted a painting by the Austrian painter Rudolf von Alt in May 2021. The oil painting entitled “Neapel” originates from the property of Malvine Stern (née Tafler), who came from a Hungarian-Jewish family and lived primarily in Vienna.
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Website of the German Contact Point for Collections from Colonial Contexts
Federal Culture Foundation
Colonial contexts

German Contact Point for Collections from Colonial Contexts publishes list of Benin bronzes

Information on Benin bronzes held in German museums can now be found at the central web address https://www.cp3c.org/benin-bronzes/. On the website of the “German Contact Point for Collections from Colonial Contexts”, the museums will document the provenances of these objects until the end of 2021 and make them publicly accessible. The office is located within Germany’s Kulturstiftung der Länder.
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Erlangen Antikensammlung
Antikensammlung der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Nazi-looted cultural property

Institute for Classical Archaeology at the University of Erlangen examines objects from the Collection of Classical Antiquities

Attic ceramic fragments and other ancient objects are the focus of a provenance research project that has begun at the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and is funded by the German Lost Art Foundation. In the course of another research project, it had come to light that many of the red-figure clay shards from the local antiquities collection had been purchased in 1939 by a private Munich collection called "Dehn," which had hitherto been unknown to researchers.
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Nazi-looted cultural property

Jewish Museum of Westphalia opens exhibition on provenance research

The Jewish Museum of Westphalia will open an exhibition on provenance research titled "In Search of Lost Identity" on June 27.
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