German Lost Art Foundation approves funding for 36 projects of provenance research

The Foun­da­tion agreed to fund projects at mu­se­ums, li­braries, aca­dem­ic in­sti­tu­tions and archives.

More and more Ger­man in­sti­tu­tions are con­duct­ing prove­nance re­search. To­day the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion agreed to fund an ad­di­tion­al 36 re­search projects at mu­se­ums, li­braries, aca­dem­ic in­sti­tu­tions and archives.

“In view of the high­est num­ber of projects to re­ceive fund­ing in 2015, we are hap­py to see a grow­ing aware­ness of re­search­ing the ori­gin of art­works, ob­jects and books,” said Uwe M. Schneede, mem­ber of the ex­ec­u­tive board of the Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion. The Foun­da­tion has al­lo­cat­ed more than four mil­lion eu­ros to prove­nance re­search this year alone.

The fund­ing re­cip­i­ents in­clude in­sti­tu­tions such as the Bay­erische Na­tional­mu­se­um in Mu­nich, the Mu­se­um­s­land­schaft Hes­sen Kas­sel and the Übersee-Mu­se­um Bre­men, the Bautzen mu­nic­i­pal li­brary, the Jew­ish Mu­se­um in Berlin, the Völk­erkun­de­mu­se­um Hei­del­berg, the Mu­se­ums­berg Flens­burg and the Gen­er­al State Archives in Karl­sruhe.

The Ger­man Lost Art Foun­da­tion is the na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al con­tact part­ner for all mat­ters per­tain­ing to the il­le­gal seizure of cul­tur­al as­sets in Ger­many in the 20th cen­tu­ry. The Foun­da­tion sup­ports prove­nance re­search with re­search grants and pro­vides in­for­ma­tion on re­ports of lost and found cul­tur­al as­sets via its open-ac­cess “Lost Art” database. Fund­ing ap­pli­ca­tions for longer-term re­search projects must be sub­mit­ted no lat­er than 1 April and 1 Oc­to­ber of each year. For more in­for­ma­tion about fund­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties, vis­it: www.kul­turgutver­luste.de/fund­ing

  • The fol­low­ing in­sti­tu­tions will now be re­ceiv­ing project fund­ing:
  • Bo­mann-Mu­se­um Celle
  • Lan­desstelle für die nicht­staatlichen Museen in Bay­ern
  • Mu­se­um Ange­wandte Kun­st Frank­furt am Main
  • In­sti­tut Mathilden­höhe Darm­stadt
  • Mu­se­um für Kun­st und Kul­turgeschichte Dort­mund
  • Bay­erisches Na­tional­mu­se­um München
  • Gen­er­al­lan­desarchiv Karl­sruhe
  • Mu­se­ums­dorf Clop­pen­burg
  • Saar­land­mu­se­um Saar­brück­en
  • Völk­erkun­de­mu­se­um Hei­del­berg
  • Mu­se­um­s­land­schaft Hes­sen Kas­sel
  • Kun­sthalle Bre­men
  • Übersee-Mu­se­um Bre­men
  • Mu­se­um Berggru­en Berlin
  • Leopold-Hoesch-Mu­se­um & Pa­pier­mu­se­um Düren
  • Ot­to-von-Gu­er­icke-Uni­ver­sität Magde­burg
  • Stadt­bib­lio­thek Bautzen
  • Kun­sthalle zu Kiel
  • Liebieghaus Frank­furt am Main
  • Domäne Dahlem Berlin
  • Jüdis­ches Mu­se­um Berlin
  • Kun­st­samm­lung Je­na
  • Mu­se­um Lüneb­urg
  • Stadt­mu­se­um Tübin­gen
  • Mu­se­ums­berg Flens­burg
  • Würt­tem­ber­gis­che Lan­des­bib­lio­thek Stuttgart
  • Herder-In­sti­tut Mar­burg
  • Lin­den-Mu­se­um Stuttgart
  • Stadt- und Re­gional­mu­se­um im Schloss Lübben
  • Pla­nungsstab Stadt­mu­se­um Stuttgart
  • Zep­pelin Mu­se­um Friedrichshafen
  • Ul­mer Mu­se­um
  • Museen der Stadt Bam­berg
  • Cen­trum Ju­daicum Berlin
  • Mu­se­um Lud­wig Köln
  • Braun­schweigis­ches Lan­desmu­se­um