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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...
Continue reading ...Commission for Art Recovery 4-5 March 2010 New York, New York Austrian Consulate Art Restitution in Austria (Restitutions from the Federal Collections) (...more at the Commission for Art Recovery website...)...
Continue reading ...Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY, USA 5 March 2010 With the art restitution law of 1998 and the amendment of 2009 respectively the Republic of Austria established the possibility to restitute artworks, which had been looted during the Nazi era and which can be found in federal museums and c...
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...
Continue reading ...Fachtagung der Kulturinitiative Rhein-Main, Museum Wiesbaden, 11. November 2009 Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland hat sich durch Unterzeichnung der Washingtoner Erklärung des Jahres 1998 dazu verpfichtet, die Herkunft von möglicherweise beschlagnahmten Kulturgütern zu erforschen und gegebenenfall...
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