News

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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Do feel free to get in touch with us directly – whether at the Foundation’s headquarters in Magdeburg or at our branch office in Berlin.
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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

German Lost Art Foundation | photo: Stefan Deutsch

Colonial contexts

Some 1.9 million euros for research into colonial contexts

20. December 2023

In 2023 the German Lost Art Foundation approved a total of 13 projects on the subject of cultural goods and collections from colonial contexts.

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Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste

Nazi-looted cultural property

Colonial contexts

Soviet zone / GDR

New volume published on the subject of photographs

19. December 2023

German Lost Art Foundation publishes issue 2023 of the periodical "Provenance & Research".

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Headquarters of the German Lost Art Foundation

German Lost Art Foundation | photo: Stefan Deutsch

Nazi-looted cultural property

Colonial contexts

Wartime losses

Soviet zone / GDR

Save the date: conference on photography in provenance research

18. December 2023

Annual conference of the German Lost Art Foundation on 18 and 19 April 2024

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German Lost Art Foundation

Soviet zone / GDR

Working paper published on the expropriation of cultural property in the GDR

13. December 2023

The German Lost Art Foundation has published an analysis of the activities undertaken by Rostock City Parliament’s committee of enquiry on lost cultural assets.

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Franckesche Stiftungen

Colonial contexts

Francke Foundations conduct research into objects from Borneo

29. November 2023

Research project focusses on objects dating back to the 19th century held in the Cabinet of Artefacts and Natural Curiosities.

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Interior of the private gallery Kunstausstellung Kühl, Dresden, July 1949

Deutsche Fotothek I unknown photographer

Soviet zone / GDR

Private art trade in Dresden after 1945

28. November 2023

Exhibition provides insights into a research project being conducted by the Dresden State Art Collections.

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Gilbert Lupfer and Imke Gielen holding a crucifix.

German Lost Art Foundation | Photo: Anna-Katharina Köhler

Nazi-looted cultural property

A Christ returns

14. November 2023

The German Lost Art Foundation hands over a crucifix to the descendants of the Jewish collector Ottmar Strauss.

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Papua New Guinean carver looks at wooden artwork.

Übersee-Museum Bremen | photo: Glenn Ricci

Colonial contexts

Artisans from Papua New Guinea at Übersee-Museum Bremen

13. November 2023

Wood carvers from New Ireland provided inspiration for the research work being done on the collections.

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German Lost Art Foundation | photo: Stefan Deutsch

Colonial contexts

“Colloquium Provenance Research” on missionary collecting in colonial contexts

7. November 2023

The German Lost Art Foundation invites you to the lecture "Missionary ‘Collecting’ in Colonial Contexts – Aspects of the Relationship between Mission and Colonialism" on November 20, 2023.

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two paintings that the city of Passau is returning, as well as the mayor and the cultural officer of Passau and the museum director

Stadt Passau

City of Passau returns Nazi-looted art to Jewish owners

1. November 2023

Two paintings to be transferred to their rightful owners in France.

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