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....
Continue reading ...5–7 November 2015 Lorenzo de' Medici, Florence, ITALY While individual empires have been studied extensively, it is only in recent decades that they have been examined from comparative political, social and cultural perspectives. It is also only recently that scholarship in history of collecti...
Continue reading ...21 - 22 October 2015 The Convent of St. Agnes of Bohemia in Prague 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 Cent...
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 ...
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 t...
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...
Continue reading ...When it comes to art, “private” and “public” take on confused, tangled meanings. In Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice, Melissa Müller and Monika Tatzkow show the extent to which European museums profited from the chaos following World War II....
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,...
Continue reading ...The Louvre, as imagined by the French Revolution—it opened during the Reign of Terror—and then as realized by Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon under Napoleon, was the first encyclopedic public museum, dedicated to providing a new setting for art objects taken from their original location. They woul...
Continue reading ...Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., was counted among the foremost French and American art dealers in antiquities and decorative arts and was among the first to foster and support the growth and appreciation for collecting in the field of contemporary European art. The company's clients included most...
Continue reading ...The Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA 23 January-24 April 2011 The only remaining set of codices from the Sacristy of the Sistine Chapel will be on display at the Meadows Museum as part of the exhibition The Lost Manuscripts from the Sistine Chapel: An Epic Journey f...
Continue reading ...Symposium presented by Christie's and Union Union Internationale des Avocats, Milano, ITALY 23 June 2011 Christie’s, the World’s Leading Art Business,and the Art Law Commission of the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA) are pleased to announce the presentation of “Holocaust Art Looting ...
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