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

Contact

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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

Historical inventory maps of the Landesmuseum Oldenburg

Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, photo: Marcus Kenzler

Call for papers: transfer – Journal for Provenance Research and the History of Collection

24. October 2023

Interested scholars are invited to contribute articles to the next issue of the journal transfer by 1 May 2024.

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Wartime losses

Two Baroque paintings are reunited

23. October 2023

A painting from the USA that was reported lost during the war has been returned to the Bavarian State Painting Collections.

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German Lost Art Foundation

Soviet zone / GDR

Foundation publishes special volume "Kunstraub für den Sozialismus" [Art theft in the name of socialism]

20. October 2023

A legal opinion on the assessment of cultural property confiscations in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR will be published as part of the series Provenire on 23 October 2023.

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German Lost Art Foundation | photo: Stefan Deutsch

German Lost Art Foundation invites to the online information event on funding opportunities

18. October 2023

The department Cultural Goods and Collections from Colonial Contexts will display funding opportunities for provenance research on collections from colonial contexts in Germany.

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