Peter Jonathan Bell and Kristi A. NelsonWith contributions by Tanja Bernsau, Kathryn Griffith, Neville Rowley, and Nancy Yeide As the Allies advanced into Germany in April 1945, General Patton’s Third Army discovered the collections of the Berlin State Museums hidden in a salt mine 2,100 feet underground. Placed in the care of the “Monuments Men,”
Continue reading ...The German Lost Art Foundation, in cooperation with Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e. V., Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung und Restitution – Bibliotheken, Deutscher Bibliotheksverband e. V., Deutscher Museumsbund e. V., and ICOM Deutschland e. V. have published the “Provenance Research Manual to Identify Cultural Property Seized Due to Persecution During the National Socialist Era”. The English translation of the
Continue reading ...Former Bloomberg arts reporter Catherine Hickley has delved into archives and conducted dozens of interviews to uncover the story behind the headlines. Her book illuminates a dark period of German history, untangling a web of deceit and silence that has prevented the heirs of Jewish collectors from recovering art stolen from their families more than seven decades ago by the Nazis.
Continue reading ...6th international conference on the confiscation, thefts and transfers of works of art as a result of Nazi rule over Czechoslovakia and Europe during the Second World War and in the post-war period organized by Documentation Centre for Property Transfers of Cultural Assets of WWII Victims p.b.o.
Continue reading ...Olaf Peters (Editor)
With contributions from Olaf Peters, Mario von Lüttichau, Ines Schlenker, Karsten Müller, Aya Soika, Bernhard Fulda, Karl Stamm, Ernst Ploil and Ruth Heftrig
This book accompanies the exhibition at Neue Galerie New York, devoted to a reconstruction of the infamous Nazi display of modern art — the first major museum since the presentation originated by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1991.
Continue reading ...Vortragsreihe am Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Leipzig, GERMANY
Juni-Juli 2014
Durch das plötzliche Auftauchen der Sammlung Cornelius Gurlitt sowie durch den von George Clooney produzierten Hollywoodfilm Monument Men sind in jüngster Zeit wieder Themenfelder in die allgemeine Wahrnehmung gerückt, die unter dem Begriff “Raubkunst” subsumiert werden und zu den drängenden Problemen kunsthistorischer Forschung wie Praxis gehören. Das Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Leipzig nimmt diese Debatte zum Anlass, um in einer Vortragsreihe zentrale Aspekte der Raub und Zwangsenteignung insbesondere während der NS-Herrschaft sowie die Probleme der Provenienzforschung durch ausgewiesene Spezialistinnen und Spezialisten vorzustellen und so einen Beitrag zu den aktuellen Diskussionen zu liefern.
Continue reading ...Beginning in 1933, Jewish collectors were under extraordinary pressure from German officials to surrender their treasures – paintings, manuscripts, musical instruments, and all manner of objets d’art.
Continue reading ...During the darkest days of World War II, a ragtag band of British and American art scholars braved the battlefields of Europe to rescue thousands of cultural treasures from Nazi pillage and the collateral damage of armed conflict.
Continue reading ...In Room 38 of the Louvre’s Richelieu Wing hangs “The Astronomer” by the Dutch master Jan Vermeer. It is an exquisite painting. The stargazer sits before a celestial globe, his fingers spanning the constellation Pegasus. He wears a teal Japanese silk robe, a style favored by Dutch burghers in the late 17th century. He is lost in thought and bathed in a golden light.
Continue reading ...Quantity took priority over quality in Hermann Goering’s sprawling art collection, much of it plundered from Jews.
Continue reading ...Das Gesamtverzeichnis der 1937/38 in deutschen Museen beschlagnahmten Werke “entarteter Kunst” wird ab April 2010 kontinuierlich komplexweise nach nochmaliger Überprüfung der Einträge ins Netz gestellt. Es kann nur nach Künstlern und Werken befragt werden, soweit sie bereits für das Netz freigegeben wurden. Das Gesamtverzeichnis fußt auf dem von den Nationalsozialisten angelegten Beschlagnahmeinventar. Die Angaben sind
Continue reading ...Alan Riding is an esteemed journalist, long a European cultural correspondent for the New York Times and, before that, the author of what is still the best modern introduction to Mexico, Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans. Since 1985 the book has sold nearly half a million copies. And the Show Went On deserves
Continue reading ...When it comes to art, “private” and “public” take on confused, tangled meanings.
Continue reading ...The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) makes the internet’s largest Interactive Holocaust Collection available for the first time ever. Included among the National Archives records available online at are concentration camp registers and documents from Dachau, Mauthausen, Auschwitz, and Flossenburg, the “Ardelia Hall Collection” of records relating to the Nazi looting of Jewish possessions,
Continue reading ...Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires sur l’Allemagne, Paris, FRANCE
20 November 2009-18 June 2010