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 ...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 ...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 Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), the “Special Task Force” headed by Adolf Hitler’s leading ideologue Alfred Rosenberg, was one of the main Nazi agencies engaged in the plunder of cultural valuables in Nazi-occupied countries during the Second World War. A particularly notorious op...
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 ...6-7 May 2011 United States National Archives Washington, DC, USA Sponsored by AAM, the National Archives, the American Association of Art Museum Directors and the Smithsonian Institution, with additional support provided by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. This two-day seminar presents new resourc...
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