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 ...
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....
Continue reading ...By Catherine Hickley In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German customs authorities seized 1,280 paintings, drawings and prints by artists including Picasso, Monet, Matisse, Chagall, Otto Dix and Paul Klee. Former Bloomberg arts reporter Catherine Hickley has de...
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 ...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 dis...
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 ...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. Collectors reluctantly agreed to one-sided sales of masterpieces at ludicrously low prices in excha...
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. These “monuments men’’ propped up collapsing buildings; repaire...
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 ...Quantity took priority over quality in Hermann Goering’s sprawling art collection, much of it plundered from Jews. His gluttony for oil canvases becomes clear in Nancy Yeide’s Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection, the first comprehensive catalog of as many as 1,800 wor...
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 freige...
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 ...Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires sur l'Allemagne, Paris, FRANCE 20 November 2009-18 June 2010 Le séminaire s’intéressera aux débats suscités par le déplacement des objets patrimoniaux et la circulation des œuvres d’art en divers contextes et périodes, dans une perspective nati...
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