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New issue of "Provenienz & Forschung" published

The German Lost Art Foundation has published a new issue of the periodical "Provenienz & Forschung". Issue 1|2021 is about the topic "Libraries".
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Freya Paschen (1973 - 2021)
Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste/Viktoria Kühne

The German Lost Art Foundation mourns the death of Freya Paschen (1973 – 2021)

Deeply saddened, the Ex­ec­u­tive Board, staff and employees of the German Lost Art Foundation bid farewell to their colleague Freya Paschen, who passed away in Storkow (Mark) on April 23, 2021 at the age of 48.
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Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy was honored for her excellent scholarly contributions to a transnational history of modern art.
David Ausserhofer
Nazi-looted cultural property
Colonial contexts

Prof. Bénédicte Savoy receives Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal

The art historian Prof. Bénédicte Savoy has received the Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal 2021 of the Braunschweig Scientific Society (BWG). During a virtual ceremony last Friday, Savoy was honored for her excellent scholarly contributions to a transnational history of modern art. The Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal is awarded once a year for outstanding scholarly achievement.
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Colonial contexts

Submit proposals for projects now! The deadline is 1 June 2022

The Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­ti­on in Mag­de­burg is on­ce again pro­vi­ding fun­ding for pro­ve­nance re­se­arch pro­jects in the are­as of “Na­zi-Loo­ted Pro­per­ty” and “Co­lo­ni­al Con­texts”. The next dead­li­ne for pro­po­sal sub­mis­si­on for long-term fun­ding in both fields is 1 Ju­ne 2022. The Foun­da­ti­on funds in­di­vi­du­al, short-term re­se­arch in both are­as throug­hout the ye­ar wi­thout a ti­me li­mit.
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Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunications hands over book to Jewish Museum Frankfurt

As part of a project funded by the German Lost Art Foundation, the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication has discovered a book formerly owned by Frankfurt judicial councilor Dr Ludwig Heilbrunn. After its history has been processed, the book was handed over to the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, which has an extensive collection on the Heilbrunn family.
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Landesmuseum Württemberg im Alten Schloss in Stuttgart.
Landesmuseum Württemberg, Hendrik Zwietasch
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Wurttemberg State Museum continues provenance research

A new project on "Systematic Provenance Research on the Acquisitions of the Wurttemberg State Museum since 1945" has begun at the Wurttemberg State Museum. The research project will run until June 30, 2022 and is made possible by the German Lost Art Foundation, with co-financing provided by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Wurttemberg.
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Aschersleben Museum begins research on Masonic objects

The Städtisches Museum in Aschersleben has begun researching its Masonic holdings. In a six-month project funded by the German Lost Art Foundation, all Masonic objects in the museum will be located and examined for their provenance.
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Colonial contexts

Deadline extended: Call for Papers - Virtual conference 2021

This year's autumn conference of the German Lost Art Foundation will take place November 17-19, 2021, as a virtual conference and in cooperation with the Research Center for Material Culture, the research institute of the National Museum of World Cultures, the Netherlands. The topic is the often forgotten history of today's debate on the return of cultural goods and collections from colonial contexts.
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Klassik Stiftung Weimar restitutes Liszt manuscripts to heirs in Argentina

The Klassik Stiftung Weimar has closed another case of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution: Two manuscripts of music by Franz Liszt have been restituted, the Foundation announced. Until 1937, the manuscripts belonged to Emma Frankenbacher, a citizen of Jewish origin, whose legal successor the Foundation was able to locate in Argentina.
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Prayer book
Jüdisches Museum Westfalen, Dorsten
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Jewish Museum of Westphalia restitutes prayer book to rightful heiress

After more than 80 years, Susanne Woodin (90) from Great Britain has recovered a valuable prayer book from her family estate: The "Machsor al kol ha-Shanah" is a prayer book for the whole year and dates back to 1851. Since 1991 it had been part of the collection of the Jewish Museum of Westphalia. As part of a provenance research project funded by the German Lost Art Foundation, the museum was able to identify the rightful heir and return the prayer book of her grandfather Hermann Schlome (1857-1942) to her.
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