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France to hand back three paintings looted by NazisAFP 1 October 2020click for storyFrench Judge Orders Restitution of Nazi-Looted André Derain Paintings to Family of Jewish Art DealerARTnews 1 October 2020click for storyCowan’s auction house returns indigenous war god sculpture to a Zuni Pueblo The Art Newspaper 25 September 2020click for storyThe only way is ethics: US museums should not neglect provenance research in the funding crisisThe Art Newspaper 25 September 2020click for storyMehr Geld für Kultur und Medien vom BundDear Tagesspiegel 23 September 2020click for storyNew committee to determine which art must be protected by Dutch governmentNL Times 18 September 2020click for storyNew body to assess ‘vital’ public and private artDutch News 18 September 2020click for storyJ.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘The Art Dealer’Central Maine 18 September 2020click for storyRace to protect 'sublime mural' in Oldham church by artist who fled NazisThe Guardian 13 September 2020click for storyLawyers Urge High Court To Leave FSIA Scope To CongressLaw 360 10 September 2020click for storyLewenstein heirs vs Stedelijk Museum Hagedorn and Palmer 8 September 2020click for storyArt spolié par les nazis : le combat d'Elizabeth Royer-GrimblatParis Match 2 September 2020click for storyA Rouen, 9 tableaux spoliés par les nazis à la recherche de leurs propriétairesLe Parisien 31 August 2020click for storyRose Valland, la Résistante du Jeu de PaumeFrance Inter 20 August 2020click for storyThe Heirs of a Famed German-Jewish Art Dealer Are Selling This Restituted Painting to Fund the Search for OthersArtnet 28 August 2020click for storyStücke aus der Sammlung Lemmers-Danforth werden restituiertWetzlar 21 August 2020click for storyUS appeals court rules—with regret—that Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation can keep Nazi-looted Pissarro The Art Newspaper 19 August 2020click for storymore news Lexicon of Austrian Provenance Research - Lexikon der österreichischen ProvenienzforschungA digitised encyclopaedia of provenance research on individuals and institutions in Austria between 1930 and 1960click to visitWeltkunst 1927-1944 The journal of the German and international art market digitised by the Heidelberg University Library, making it possible to search for artworks, collectors, auctions or museums from the Weimar Republic to the Nazi era.click to visitBundesarchiv B323 Records on Nazi looting and restitutionFiles, documents and photographs from various sources that contributed to the identification, clarification of ownership and restitution of looted cultural property after 1945 in Germany.click to visitMapping the LivesBiographical details of over 400,000 people from the 1939 German Minority Census, expanded with data from verifiable archival sources.click to visitLooted Cultural AssetsFour German libraries - the Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin Centrum Judaicum Library, the Freie Universit t Berlin University Library, the Potsdam University Library, and the Berlin Central and Regional Library - have created a joint website with the provenance details of over 12,000 books which may be looted. For more information click here.click to visitUNESCO Database of National Cultural Heritage LawsProvides access to national laws currently in force (with translations), import/export certificates, contact details for national authorities and addresses of official national websites dedicated to the protection of the cultural heritage.click to visitDutch Museums Provenance ResearchResults of 'Museum Acquisitions from 1933' project showing 41 Dutch museums are in possession of at least 139 items with 'problematic' origins.click to visitSwiss Looted Art PortalOpened in June 2013, this government-run site provides details of museums' provenance research, advice on making enquiries, research and claims and links to relevant databases and archives in Switzerland and beyond.click to visitWGA-Files - Akten der Wieder- gutmachungsämter von Berlin - Case Records of the Berlin Restitution OfficesDigitised restitution case records of the Berlin Restitution Offices held in the Landesarchiv Berlin, consisting of the record group B Rep 025, Wiedergutmachungs mter von Berlin, containing more than 800,000 files.click to visitEuropean Sales Catalogues 1930-1945 Heidelberg University3,000 digitised auction catalogues including both German-speaking countries and the countries of occupied Europe - Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland - and including every genre of cultural object, from paintings to tapestries to silver and books. Provides the entire texts of auction catalogues. Searchable by auction house, artist, work of art, etc.click to visitGerman Sales Catalogs 1930–1945 at the GettyMore than 2,000 German language sales catalogues published between 1930 and 1945 including more than 230,000 individual auction sales records for paintings, sculptures, and drawings only. Searchable by artist name and nationality, lot title, buyer or seller s name, city in which the sale occurred, type of subject matter and other fields. Provides only individual lot details, and links to Heidelberg for the full catalogue.click to visitHermann Goering CollectionContains 4,263 paintings, sculptures, furniture, tapestries and other art objects, purchased or acquired from confiscated property, many available for restitution today.click to visitInternational Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural PropertyThe Portal provides for the first time digital access to millions of cultural property records from the National Archives of the US, the UK, Germany, Belgium, Ukraine, France and other archival sources.click to visitPolish Wartime LossesLaunched on 2 February 2011 bythe Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and including missing paintings from public and private collections by Raphael, Van Dyck, Rubens and others, reflecting the 70% of Poland's art lost to the Nazis.click to visitERR DatabaseThe Nazi records and photographs of the looting of more than 20,000 objects from Jews in France and Belgium. Click here for background details.click to visitGalerie Heinemannc 43,500 paintings and c 13,000 persons and institutions associated with their acquisition or sale by the Munich art dealer Galerie Heinemann from 1890 to 1939. Click here for the full background.click to visitHungary on Trial: Herzog CollectionThe history of the family, a copy of the July 2010 lawsuit filed in New York and photos of the artworks.click to visit'Degenerate Art' / Aktion 'Entartete Kunst' websiteThe fate of more than 21,000 artworks condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and seized from German museums in 1937. Click here for background details.click to visitCentral Collecting Point Munich DatabaseIndex cards and photographs of the170,000 works of art collected up by the Allies at the end of the war andinventoried from1945 till 1951.click to visitHitler's Linz CollectionA searchable, illustrated catalogue of the 4,731 works of art found by the Allies in the Linz Collection, with provenance details.Click here fordetailed information.click to visitThe Austrian National FundHundreds of looted objects in Austrian public collections available for restitution.click to visit Raub ohne Restitution? Die Justiz und die Rückerstattung von ‚arisiertem‘ Vermögen (Looting without Restitution? The Judiciary and the Return of 'Aryanised' Assets) , 22. Jahrestagung des „Forum Justizgeschichte“, Deutsche Richterakademie in Wustrau am Ruppiner See, 7 October, 3 and 17 November 2020 Online The role played by the German judiciary in the delayed restitution of looted art by Germany, from resistance to it after the war fuelled by persisting antisemitism and the direct continuity of the personnel who managed the looting and were now managing the restitution, to its legal handling in the courts. For details of the online lecture evenings on 7 October, 3 and 17 November, click here.Die Museen und der franzoesische Kunstmarkt waehrend der deutschen Besatzung/ Les musées et le marché de l’art français sous l’Occupation allemande, Workshop, Berlin, 8-9 October 2020Online On the operation of the French art market during the occupation, including its German regulation, museum acquisition strategies, financing, export licences and transport of purchases, German and French players (dealers, museum directors, civil servants) and their networks on the Paris art market, and procurement management in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France in the post-war period up to the present day. Register by midday 7 October 2020. For full details, click here.Research Grant from the German Center for Art History Paris (DFK Paris) and the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), Call for Applications by 12 October 2020. The Institut national d'histoire de l'art and the German Centre for Art History (Deutsches Forum f r Kunstgeschichte - DFK PARIS) are jointly awarding a scholarship to study the history of the art market in France during the German occupation. It is intended for art history researchers wishing to conduct original research on the history of the art market in France between 1939 and 1945. The fellows will carry out their research in Paris within the framework of these two institutions, spending six months at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art and six months at the German Centre for Art History. For full details of how to apply, click here.Curatorial Meeting on Provenance Research, Association of European Jewish Museums, 14 October 2020, 3 PM (CET)On provenance research and its ever growing relevance for Jewish museums. With papers by Linda Wiesner, Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Anna Augustin, formerly Jewish Museum Berlin, and Julie-Marthe Cohen, Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam. To register and attend, click here.Doctoral Scholarship for Provenance Research Nordrhein-Westfalen, Die Forschungsstelle Provenienzforschung, Kunst- und Kulturgutschutzrecht, Universität Bonn, 1 December 2020Applications by 18 October 2020. The Research Centre for Provenance Research, Art and Cultural Property Protection Law at the University of Bonn is awarding a three-year doctoral scholarship on December 1, 2020. Full details here.Kulturgüter, Provenienzen und Restitution: aus Frankfurter Museen, Sammlungen und Haushalten, Lecture series, Frankfurt, Institut für Stadtgeschichte 19 Oct 2020-5 July 2021Subjects include provenance research on looted art objects and books from Frankfurt Jewish owners and the acquisition by Frankfurt museums of cultural property from colonial contexts. For a full list of lectures, click here.Thinking Provenance, Thinking Restitution, Workshop, University of Cambridge, 7-8 December 2020A joint project of the University of Cambridge and the University of Bonn to explore recent developments and the need for a conceptual and theoretical foundation in provenance, which reflects on the identity of objects, the agency of those involved in their movements and transactions, and the ethical challenges faced by institutions. Call for papers by 30 June 2020. For full details, click here.Concealed Histories: Uncovering the Story of Nazi Looting, Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum London, 6 December 2019-10 January 2021Curated by Jacques Schuhmacher and Alice Minter, Curator of the Gilbert Collection, the display the first of its kind by a UK museum uncovers eight stories of Jewish collectors and their families under the Nazis and forms part of the V A's commitment to proactive research into the provenance of the items in its care. For full details, click here.Imperial Artifacts: History, Law, and the Looting of Cultural Property, Conference, Leiden University, 28-29 January 2021An interdisciplinary conference which aspires to bring together (post-)colonial historians, legal historians, curators, international lawyers, and others engaged with the field to establish research collaborations by critically investigating stories of colonial looting, the framing of colonial history within museums, the origins of the legal framework concerning European laws of war and restitution, as well as a way forward for restitution claims. Call for papers by 31 August 2020. Click here for full details.The Fate of Antiquities in the Nazi Era, College Art Association Annual (virtual) Conference, 10–13 February 2021On the extent of confiscations, forced sales, thefts, looting, losses, illegal exportations and trade; the major private collectors and dealers; and provenance research. Proposals for presentations related to Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman or Byzantine antiquities with a history in the Nazi era by 16 September 2020. For full details, click here.Deposits. A form of translocation of cultural assets and its significance for Swiss museums (1933-1960), Conference, Kunstmuseum Bern, 11-12 March 2021On the history of institutions and collecting, including issues such as which collectors moved their art collections to Switzerland and which to other countries, the role of dealers, politicians or artists as agents in the divestiture or translocation of works transported abroad, the political and legal factors affect the movement of works in or out of the country. Call for papers by 30 June 2020. For full details, click here.Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises für Provenienzforschung e.V., Jubiläum – 20 Jahre Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung, Hamburg, 19-20 April 2021NOW RESCHEDULED A conference on 'Expropriation, Transfer, Transit - People, Objects, Places and Events' to mark the 20th anniversary of the Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung (Provenance Research Working Group). For details, click here.Kolloquium Provenienz- und Sammlungsforschung (XII) -Provenance and Collection Research Colloquium, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, 28 April 2021NOW RESCHEDULED On the theme of art trade archives and followed by the 2021 Helbing Lecture. Save the date, programme to follow at a later date.Terms of Art: Understanding the Mechanics of Dispossession During the Nazi Period, Symposium, 6-7 May 2021, HCPO, New YorkTo explore the methods of involuntary loss from a historical, art historical and practical basis. Now rescheduled for May 2021. For further details about the symposium, click here. La collection disparueSeptember 2020Pauline Baer de Perignon. The personal journey of Pauline Baer de Perignon, great-granddaughter of the renowned French collector Jules Strauss, tracing the story of what happened after the family apartment was raided by the Nazis in 1942 and accompanying her in her discoveries, her battles, her disappointments, and a form of reconciliation.read moreA Goudstikker van Goyen in Gdansk: A Case Study of Nazi-Looted Art in PolandJune 2020Dr Patricia Kennedy Grimsted. A Van Goyen from the Goudstikker collection illustrates the many missing Dutch paintings sold to Nazi-era German museums in cities that became part of postwar Poland where viable claims procedures for Holocaust victims and heirs are still lacking. It also raises important issues in provenance research for still-displaced Nazi-looted art.read moreKunstfund Gurlitt. Wege der Forschung“ (Gurlitt Art Trove: Research Pathways)May 2020Eds Andrea Baresel-Brand, Nadine Bahrmann and Gilbert Lupfer. Reflecting the latest research and illuminating lesser-known aspects of the Gurlitt case. read moreThe Berlin Masterpieces in America: Paintings, Politics, and the Monuments MenApril 2020Peter Jonathan Bell and Kristi A. Nelson. As the Allies advanced into Germany in April 1945, General Patton s Third Army discovered the collections of the Berlin State Museums. The US military government ordered that 202 works of art of greatest importance be sent on a whistle-stop tour of 13 US cities. This fully illustrated volume is the first to examine the entire journey of the 202 and its historical-political implications.read moreFritz Bauer: The Jewish Prosecutor Who Brought Eichmann and Auschwitz to TrialApril 2020Ronen Steinke, translated by Sinead Crowe. Fritz Bauer(1903 1968) played a key role in the arrest of Adolf Eichmann and the initiation of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. There was a Jewish Museum exhibition in 2014and then a film about Fritz Bauer as an Unlikely Movie Hero. Now an English translation of Ronen Steinke s acclaimed biography has been published by Indiana University Press.read moreDissent and DisplacementFebruary 2020Monica Petzal. Celebrating storytelling and the ways in which we reflect on our lives, Monica Petzal explores German-Jewish refugee heritage, the themes of persecution, opposition and persistence through a series of 36 large-scale handmade lithographs. The book complements the exhibition 'Dissent and Displacement - A Modern Story'.read moreThe Nazi Confiscation of Wanda Landowska’s Musical Collection and Its AftermathJanuary 2020Carla Shapreau . About the renowned harpsichordist and piano soloist, Wanda Landowska, a Polish Jew, whose musical collection was confiscated by the Nazi Sonderstab Musik in Paris in May 1940 and transported to Germany, some of it found by the Allies in May 1945. Carla Shapreau documents this history,what was recovered and how much remains missing today.read moreTerezín Declaration – Ten Years Later: Conference ProceedingsJanuary 2020The published proceedings of the international academic conference held in Prague on 18-19 June, 2019 which reviewed progress since the 2009 Terezin Declaration are available here.read moreThe Demise of the World of the Gutnajers: The Warsaw Art Market in World War IIJanuary 2020Nawojka Cieslinska-Lobkowicz. Nawojka Cieslinska-Lobkowicz explores the salons of the brothers Bernard and Abe Gutnajer, among a substantial number of Jewish art and antiques dealers who operated in pre-World War II Warsaw. Virtually everyone in their milieu perished in the Warsaw ghetto or Treblinka. Taking their place were new Aryan dealers and a clientele of new money. The Warsaw art market under the German occupation experienced a particular growth between the start of the Jewish ghetto s liquidation in mid-1942 and the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944, as abandoned property flooded the market.read moreWarum ein „Restatement of Restitution Rules for Nazi-Confiscated Art"? Das Beispiel „Fluchtgut" (The example of 'Flight goods')January 2020Matthias Weller and Anne Dewey. Matthias Weller and Anne Dewey write about the concept of 'Flight Goods' in the context of the German government-funded project to 're-state the Washington Principles'.read moreMuseumsblätter. Mitteilungen des Museumsverbandes BrandenburgDecember 2019Provenienzforschung: Bilanz und neue Wege: NS-Raubgut in technikhistorischen Sammlungen, Kriegsverluste m rkischer Sammlungen, SBZ und DDR im Fokus der Provenienzforschung, Globale Geschichte in lokalen Museen?read more Collecting and Provenance: A Multidisciplinary ApproachNovember 2019 Edited by Jane Milosch and Nick Pearce. The book explores the subject as a cross-disciplinary activity and raises wide-ranging issues including aspects of authenticity, cultural meaning and material transformation and economic and commercial drivers, as well as collector and object biography. read moreLes "anonymes" de la Résistance en France: 1940-1942 Motivations et engagements de la première heureOctober 2019Professor Limore Yagil challenges the widely disseminated image of a France sinking into Vichysism and collaboration by exploring the "anonymous" of the Resistance, the forgotten ones, those early heroes who dared to act by rejecting collaboration with Germany, thanks to whom the work of the Resistance could be accomplished, such as hoteliers, smugglers, social workers and doctors, priests, policemen, high school students, intellectuals, civil servants, teachers, pastors.read moreCommando Musik: Comment les nazis ont spolié l'Europe musicaleOctober 2019Willem De Vries. read moremore publications This site contains two fully searchable databases.The Information Database contains information and documentation from fortynine countries, including laws and policies, reports and publications, archival records and resources, current cases and relevant websites.The Object Database contains details of over 25,000 objects of all kinds paintings, drawings, antiquities, Judaica, etc looted, missing and/or identified from over fifteen countries.All images on the site are published under fair use conditions for the purpose of criticism and research.For a list of Essential Website Links, showing all key research sites and resources,click here. For Bibliographies on all aspects of looted art, the art trade, archives and restitution, click here.For details of the most recent international resources, click here and also see below, Online Resources and Case News.To subscribe to our looted artnewsletter, click here. 30 September 2020: French Appeal Court Judgement Orders Restitution of Three Nazi-Looted André Derain Paintings to Family of Jewish Art Dealer René Gimpel The Paris Appeal Court ruled that there was sufficient evidence that the three Derain paintings -- one at the Musee Cantini in Marseille, and two at the Mus e d art Moderne de Troyes -- were in fact the paintings that Ren Gimpel had acquired before the war, and that they were sold under duress after 1940, during the war. The court ordered the return of all three works to the family. To read the judgement, click here.#StolenMemory Campaign and Online ExhibitionIn 2008, the Commission for Looted Art in Europe discovered that several thousand personal items belonging to victims of the Nazis were held by the International Tracing Service (now the Arolsen Archives) at Bad Arolsen and urged that action be taken speedily to return them to the families. They consisted of wallets, photos, letters, jewelry, cigarette cases, wedding rings, pocket watches, wristwatches, fountain pens, passports, certificates and identity papers, the last possessions kept by each person.In 2016, the Arolsen Archives launched the #StolenMemory campaign in order to begin an active search for relatives in various countries with support from volunteers. This tracing campaign led to the creation of the #StolenMemory exhibition which was shown in Belgium, German, Italy, Spain and other countries. By May 2020, a total of over 400 of these personal effects had been handed over to relatives. There are still 2,500 envelopes waiting to be returned.The personal effects arrived at Bad Arolsen in 1963 in some 4,700 effects envelopes , the contents belonging to people from over 30 different countries. The envelopes came from the Bergen-Belsen, Dachau and Neuengamme concentration camps, the Gestapo Hamburg, the Central Bank of Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel (comprising mostly the personal effect of prisoners of the Neum nster Prison) and other unknown sources. Many of the owners were political prisoners and forced labourers. An inventory of the effects and their owners has been created and can be searched here.An online exhibition, #StolenMemory, in conjunction with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, has now been launched focusing on the effects of Polish victims. To visit the exhibition, click here. To volunteer to help return items to families, click here.8 September-1 October 2020: WJRO #MyPropertyStory Social Media CampaignFor the second year, and in advance of Jewish New Year, the World Jewish Restitution Organisation (WJRO) has launched a #MyPropertyStory social media campaign to shine a light on the unprecedented theft of property from Jewish people and communities during the Shoah. The five-week campaign began on Tuesday, September 8 and will continue through Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah, until Sunday, October 11.Last year, tens of thousands of people from around the world participated in the #MyPropertyStory campaign. People engaged through social media in response to stories of lives that were forever changed by the Holocaust that showed how their homes, land, businesses, and personal possessions were powerful links to their pasts. This year, the campaign will also focus on children and grandchildren of survivors #MyPropertyStory: The Next Generations. Their stories will be powerful additions to the campaign.WJROis asking participants to post their stories through videos, photos, statements, or drawings via Facebook, Twitter, and/or Instagram and include #MyPropertyStory and tag @WJRORestitution. People can also go towww.wjro.org.il/mpsfor easy access to one-click sharing ofWJRO s moving videos, stories, and photos on social media in English and Hebrew. There is also a general email address for any questions atmypropertystory@wjro.org.il.WJRO has created customized videos (in Hebrew and English) with interviews of two daughters and a son of Holocaust survivors who share their own journey of what has connected them to their family history. These videos can be used by anyone for reposting through thislink. They feature:Lorraine Braun, daughter of Holocaust survivors, talks about the importance of connecting to her family s ancestry. Her late mother would often tell stories about her life before the Holocaust and speak about her happy home and what it was like to have to abandon her home. In 2012, Lorraine traveled with her siblings, son, and extended family to Kir lyhelmec in the Czech Republic the hometown of both her parents to visit her mother s home because she says: We felt that it was our inheritance to try to take back some of that sense of joyfulness that existed in the house. In another video, IsraeliShoshana Greenberg, a daughter of a Holocaust survivor, who has worked tirelessly to get all the documentation to prove she was the rightful heir to her family s property including a textile factory, travels to the home in Lodz, Poland and speaks about encountering resistance to her claims. She says, Despite all the efforts I made and everyone I turned to in court, my saga of recovering the property is at a standstill. The video of IsraeliDavid Kotekshows him visiting an apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland that belonged to his father and his aunt. It had been a family home, carpentry and factory. David expresses his excitement about visiting the home because he knew that after the war, his grandfather, father and aunt all came together in the same spot after being liberated from concentration camps. Four years ago, David found out that the building was nationalized by the Communists. He believes, The restitution of property [in Poland] will be a historical justice and will bring Polish and Jewish people closer together. As the groundbreaking Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act report recently released by the US State Department makes clear, many European countries have not met their commitments on Holocaust era property restitution. The #MyPropertyStory campaign will help elevate the issue so that Holocaust survivors can seek a measure of justice during their lifetime. For more information about the #MyPropertyStory campaign, please visit: wjro.org.il/mypropertystory.Hedwig's Lost Van Gogh: Malcolm Gladwell Revisionist History PodcastAn escape from war-torn Germany. Lavish dinners with Hollywood royalty. A Swedish baron and a dime-store heiress: we explore the long journey of a Van Gogh still life and what it says about the real value of the things we treasure. This episode of Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast is dedicated to Vase with Carnations by Vincent Van Gogh, now in the Detroit Institute of Arts and once in the collection of Hedwig Ullmann of Frankfurt, until she was forced to flee Germany and sell her art collection. The painting is not an important work of Van Gogh and languished in storage in Detroit for years as a painting of little artistic value. Yet when the Ullmann family found it, Detroit fought tooth and nail to keep it and now sells 'Vase with Carnations' soap and socks in its museum shop. He explores how the provenance hid the painting's real history and why Detroit behaved as it did. He is not a fan of Detroit, nor of the Toledo Museum of Art, nor of other US museums which refused to return the paintings of the Ullmann and other families, gripped with the compulsion to keep works of art come what may. To hear the podcast, click here.2 September 2020: German Provenance Research Manual published in EnglishThe German Lost Art Foundation has published an English language version of the November 2019 'Leitfaden Provenienzforschung', with the title 'Provenance Research Manual to Identify Cultural Property Seized Due to Persecution during the National Socialist Era'. The guide is a joint project developed with the Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e. V. (Provenance Research Association), Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung und Restitution Bibliotheken (Provenance Research and Restitution Association of Libraries); the Deutscher Museumsbund e. V. (German Museums Association) representing the interests of museums; and its counterpart, the Deutsche Bibliotheksverband e. V. (German Library Association); and ICOM Germany e. V., the German chapter of the International Council of Museums. The manual ranges from chapters on philosophy (the historical, ethical and moral obligation to confront Nazi looting of cultural property and the crime perpetrated by Nazi rule in general) to practice, methodology and case studies. It provides details on the kinds of numbers, stamps, labels, ex libris, trademarks, hallmarks, autographs, dedications, engravings and insertions to be found in and on objects and their significance. It lists archival sources, in Germany and elsewhere, literature and other online resources, and genealogical data and resources. There is a chapter on documenting research transparently and on the obligation to publish all looted works and all works with gaps in their provenance (1933-1945) on lostart.de, the database of the German Lost Art Foundation. All involved in Germany are urged to report any restitutions to the Foundation. A penultimate chapter focuses on just and fair solutions, looks at the presumption of loss and burden of proof, the search for heirs and the deployment of the German Advisory Commission. The final chapter provides information on the participating institutions, national claims panels, and training and education opportunities in Germany. An Annex lists useful databases and sources on art dealers.To see and download the Manual, click here. For the Annex, click here.29 July: Publication of the US Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today (JUST) Act ReportThe Report is the first of an annual US government review of the national laws and enforceable policies of 46 of the 47 countries (excluding the US itself) that endorsed the 2009 Terezin Declaration. On art the Report concludes: 'In the realm of movable property, there is much left to do to identify looted art and facilitate a fair solution for its return to rightful owners or their heirs. In most European countries, too many public and private art museums still do not conduct provenance research on their art collections, research that is essential to providing information about potential claims for Nazi-confiscated art. A handful of countries have only recently begun working on the necessary legislation and mechanisms for restituting artwork, and many others have yet to do so. France, which originally had been slow in doing provenance research, is now the only country where the effort to identify, return or compensate Nazi-confiscated artworks and cultural objects rests in the office of the head of government, the prime minister. The country, however, has not revised the law that stipulates that artworks that have been incorporated into public collections cannot be removed from public museums, even if they were confiscated by the Nazis from private collections. The Netherlands, which had done exemplary provenance research and restitution, recently adopted a balancing test that gives its museums the right to retain Nazi-confiscated artworks if their interests outweigh those of representatives of families from whom the Nazis confiscated the art. Hungary has conducted some research on its holdings of major looted art but has not provided restitution, nor has it made its research public.Russia, meanwhile, has essentially nationalized most art and cultural property taken by the Soviet Trophy Brigades, which sent valuables back to Russia from occupied territories (including Germany) in 1945. Despite having enacted a law based upon the 1998 Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, Russia has done little to conduct provenance research or to restitute or compensate for art recovered at the end of WWII that had been confiscated by the Nazis from Jewish and non-Jewish victims.There are also positive trends worth highlighting. Five countries Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom have established dispute resolution panels to resolve art claims, as envisioned by the Washington Principles and the Terezin Declaration. Moreover, in January 2019, the European Parliament passed legislation recognizing the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art. It urged the European Commission to support the cataloguing of all data on looted cultural goods and to establish principles for dealing with cultural property in future conflicts.Based on a November 2018 Joint Declaration with the Expert Adviser to the State Department on Holocaust-Era Issues and the Department s Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, Germany allocated significant funds to both public and private museums for provenance research and has informed its public museums that they cannot continue to obtain federal funds unless they participate in the claims process. Germany also reaffirmed that the precepts it committed to in endorsing the Washington Principles and the Terezin Declaration apply to private museums and collections, as well as to public museums.Another area examined in this report is the progress in identifying, cataloguing, and preserving Judaica that may be found in libraries, museums, and other repositories; their return to their original owners and other appropriate individuals and institutions; and in particular, the restoration of sacred scrolls and ceremonial objects to their original sacred use in synagogues. Return of confiscated Judaica and Jewish cultural property has generally not received as much focus as confiscated and looted art. In the case of certain countries, such as Belarus, progress in this area has stalled. After World War II, the Soviet Trophy Brigades brought hundreds of thousands of books from France to Minsk that had been stolen by theEinsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg a Nazi organization tasked with expropriating Jewish cultural property. Most of these books, experts agree, are located in Minsk.'To read the Report in full and its findings on art, Judaica, real estate, archives and memorialisation, click here.23 July 2020: New Holocaust Database: Reichsanzeiger (Revoked Citizenship and Property Seizures) 1933-1945Beginning in 1933, the German Government revoked German citizenship for tens of thousands of German Jews, not only those resident in Germany, but also those who had left Germany and were resident in other countries. It took similar action against persons resident in parts of Czechoslovakia which had been annexed. Less well known was the revocation of business licenses or even seizure of firms which had been owned by Jews or political opponents. These public actions, totaling nearly 90,000 names of persons and firms, mixed together, were regularly published in the Reichsanzeiger, the official German gazette.In 1985 a compilation of the citizenship revocations was published in book form by K.G. Saur, Die Ausb rgerung deutscher Staatsangehoriger 1933-1945 (The Expatriation of German Citizens, 1933-1945). However, persons resident outside Germany as well as firms whose names/assets had been seized were not included. The nature/location of property/assets which had been seized was not identified. These are all now available in a single searchable database on JewishGen. An introduction, 'Revoked German Citizenship and Property Seizures 1933-1945' by Peter Lande is at https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/RevokedGermanCitizenship.html. The database, which is listed in the JewishGen Holocaust Database, is athttps://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/. The information in the database came from Herbert Birett, a German researcher and his original data can be found in a spreadsheet athttps://tinyurl.com/y7w4ue6j.1 July 2020: Recommendation of the German Advisory Commission in the case of the heirs of A.B. v the Bavarian State Paintings CollectionsIn its latest and unprecedented recommendation, the Commission awarded restitution on moral and ethical grounds to the claimants, heirs of A.B., the former owner of a private bank in Berlin, of the painting 'Lemon Slice' by the Dutch Old Master Jacob Ochtervelt The Bayerische Staatsgem ldesammlungen (bavarian State Paintings Collections) had received the painting as a donation from the daughter of Frits Thyssen in 1987, had never displayed it and had wished to sell it but were impeded by the problematic provenance. They had opposed restitution on the grounds that A.B. had never been the unconditional owner of the painting, which had been acquired through a loan for which the painting was collateral.However, the Commission, in its unprecedented decision, set out the series of persecutions to which A.B. and his family had been subject, referred to the 'impressive account of the outstanding symbolic importance the family attaches to the painting' and stated that it recommended 'the restitution of the painting [solely] in order to contribute in this way to recognising and making amends for a piece of historical injustice. In so doing, the Commission also takes into account the fact that the interests of the applicants are not opposed by any comparably important interests of the applicant. The defendant received the painting as part of a larger purchase. With regard to the "Lemon Slice", this was not based on a curatorial decision; the painting is not part of the concept of the collection and has not been exhibited by the collection to date'. The restitution is subject to the State of Bavaria receiving 50% of the proceeds of any sale that takes place within ten years of the restitution.To read the judgement (which was issued solely in German), click here.To read a guide English translation of the judgement, click here.14 July 2020: Annotated Online Edition of Three of Hans Posse's Five Travel Diaries (1939-1942)Following a three year project funded by the German Lost Art Foundation, the Germanisches National Museum has digitised and put online three of the five travel diaries of Hans Posse, Director of the Dresden Gemaeldegalerie and Hitler's Special Representative for building up his F hrermuseum in Linz and for preparing and implementing a distribution programme of artworks to museums in the Reich (1939-1942). Posse's documents in the Deutsche Kunstarchiv include his service diary and five travel diaries documenting his business trips on behalf of Hitler which have been largely unpublished and unexplored to date.The Reisekladden (Diaries) are great sources for research on Nazi art theft, Nazi museum politics and provenance research containing information Posse needed for his verbal and written reports to Hitler as well as for his conceptual and operational work.They show the full range of his work for Hitler and prove that he was not only Hitler's chief buyer for the F hrer Museum, but also Hitler's most important manager of art looting.The Diaries document in a singular way Posse's activities in the occupied territories, for example in Poland and France, and his contacts with NSDAP organizations such as the local Gauleiters, Gestapo offices, military art protection units, etc. These are not reflected in other archives for the Sonderkommando Linz because they were confidential and only discussed orally.It makes it possible to reconstruct, for example, Posse's inspections of confiscated private collections, as well as his connections to the art trade and the network of art agents he built up, as well as to the competing Nazi organizations in occupied Europe.In doing so, individual works of art are regularly mentioned with their prices and terms of purchase or acquisition.Hans Posse usually made his travel notes in pencil, directly on site, for example in the looted art depots he visited.The pencil line has now faded, the handwriting is often undisciplined and therefore difficult to decipher, place and person names are often misspelled.The poor readability of the diaries makes it considerably more difficult for the reader to access the content, and requires transcription.The notes also have to be deciphered, as they are usually short notes and lists,which are rarely interrupted by continuous text.Posse often used abbreviations that are not commonly used, such as "Rbdt." (For Rembrandt) or "Hbst." (for the art dealer Karl Haberstock).People, institutions, locations or works have been now indexed and annotated to faciliate research.In addition, historical context and additional background information have been provided to help with reading the diaries. To access the three digitised diaries, the list of names appearing in them and to learn how to navigate the digitised copies, go to https://editionhansposse.gnm.de/ For the list of names of individuals and artists appearing in the diaries, click here. For organisations, click here. For details of individual artworks and their owners, here.20 April 2020: Alternatives to DHM databases for the Munich CCP, Linz and Göring collectionsThe German Historical Museum (DHM, Deutsches Historisches Museum) hosts databases of the records of the Munich Central Collecting Point, the Linz and G ring collections but the site has been down since the beginning of March and there is no imminent prospect of repair. There are two alternative locations for the records. One is Fold 3, which has the property cards, scanned and available, sourced from the US National Archives; the second is the Bundesarchiv where new high-resolution colour scans of the property cards are also available online at https://invenio.bundesarchiv.de (subject to registration) through the following search sequence: - Bundesrepublik Deutschland mit westalliierten Besatzungszonen (1945 ff) - Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1949 ff) - Finanzen, Wirtschaft - B 323 Treuhandverwaltung von Kulturgut bei der Oberfinanzdirektion M nchenKlassifikation:- 5 Restitution von Kunstwerken - 5.3 Restitutionsnachweise - B 323/647 bis B 323/69410 April 2020: Launch of the Swiss Association for Provenance ResearchThe recently founded Schweizerischer Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung (Swiss Association for Provenance Research) has just launched its website and is now open for membership applications. The Association supports the establishment of provenance research and provides a network for provenance researchers in Switzerland. It also encourages the study of the art market and of exhibition and museum history. Details of the association and its board can be found atprovenienzforschung.ch(in German and French).Doctoral Partnership Grant ‘Jewish Collectors and Donors at the National Gallery’ (National Gallery London & University of Durham)This project interrogates the Jewish contribution to the making of the National Gallery. Despite the importance of many Jewish collectors associated with the Gallery including Alfred de Rothschild, Ludwig Mond, Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted these men and women have never been studied as a group in relation to the growth of the institution. Focusing on the period from the foundation of the National Gallery (1824) to the end of the Second World (1945), this project will investigate the role of Jewish donors, dealers and trustees in constructing the collections and in administering the institution. The project will consider what, if anything, was distinctive about Jewish taste in painting, and uncover the motivations behind acts of philanthropy on the part of this cultural minority. It will reconstruct the Jewish presence within networks of kinship, business and sociability that sustained the National Gallery in an era of dramatic expansion yet economic hardship and analyse the dynamics which resulted in paintings owned by eminent Jewish collectors entering the public domain in the era before the Holocaust. The project Jewish Collectors and Donors at the National Gallery (c.1830-1945) will provide an opportunity to research a fascinating chapter in Jewish history and the history of collecting and allow the student to receive supervision and training across two outstanding institutions. Full details available here.Application deadline: 8 June 2020Start date: 1 October 202011 May 2020: DHM Munich Central Collecting Point database online againThe Munich Central Collecting Point (CCP) database is back online, though with limited functionality. There are limitations in the extended search via the list function, such as the link to the database of the Linz collection. But searches via the Munich and Linz numbers work now, as do searches for single criteria in the advanced search.May 2020 Newsletter No. 6 of the European Network of Resitution CommitteesIssued under the current Austrian chairmanship, the newsletter includes a news section, two cases studies, of a Jacobs Lierens claim in the Netherlands and a Josef and Alice Morgenstern recommendation in Austria, an article on provenance research at the V A Museum, two conference reports and articles on art restitution in the US and tracing of owners of looted artworks in Austria. To read the newsletter, click here.ZADIK becomes part of the University of CologneZADIK, the Central Archive for German and International Art Market Research, is the world's only specialized archive on the history of the art market. It was founded in 1992 as the central archive of the German and international art trade by the Federal Association of German Galleries and Art Dealers BVDG as a non-profit association. At the end of 2014, ZADIK became an affiliated institute of the Philosophical Department of the University of Cologne. Now ZADIK has been incorporated into the University of Cologne as an independent research institute of the Faculty of Philosophy. To read the University of Cologne Press Release, click here.25 February 2020: Ambassador J. D. Bindenagel files Amicus Curiae brief in Picasso claim against the Metropolitan Museum New YorkJames D. Bindenagel, US Ambassador and Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues from 1998-2002, and Conference Director for the 1998 Washington Conference on Nazi-Confiscated Art, has filed an amicus curiae brief in support of the petition for a hearing by the US Supreme Court by the heirs of Paul and Alice Leffmann in respect of their claim for Picasso's 'The Actor' now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Ambassador Bindenagel, now Director of the Center for International Security and Governance at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn, Germany, argues ia that an earlier court decision that the heirs had waited too long to file their claim is inconsistent with US policy and the HEAR Act: 'The decision threatens to eviscerate the express will of Congress. By limiting the HEAR Act to one time-based defense, the court below will prevent Holocaust-era art claims from being heard on their merits the precise result that the HEAR Act seeks to avoid. Given that the HEAR Act was a statute intended to have national reach, this Court s intervention is warranted to prevent the Act from becoming a dead letter.'To read the brief, click here. To read the heirs' Petition for Writ of Certiorari, filed on 24 January 2020, click here, and here for the Appendix to the Petition.27 January 2020: EHRI publishes early Holocaust testimony onlineAs the persecution and mass murder of European Jews unfolded, and shortly after the liberation, activists set out to document the fate of their communities. Jewish historical committees in several countries collected documents, artifacts and testimonies and brought together a major body of evidence - yet one which was later forgotten or used reluctantly. EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) for the first time, brings together samples of early testmonies of Jewish witnesses and survivors taken before the 1960s. The testimonies are all on the site in their original form and langauge, and there is also an English translation of every text. To visit the site, click here.23 January 2020: Launch of Proveana, a new research database at the German Lost Art Foundation (DZK)Launched only in German and in Germany, and aiming to make the content "transparently accessible", the database contains the results of provenance and associated research projects funded by the DZK, the data from which has not previously been transparent or accessible. Search categories include people, businesses, events, collections, provenance information, objects, and further documentary sources, and content includes that of the Lost Art database.Although the DZK states, in the only English language text about it on the site, that "Proveana provides assistance for those whose cultural assets were seized [and] for their descendants", no part of the database, including the registration to use it and press release about it, are in English, the language most accessible to the victims of the Nazis and their descendants. The DZK English language site makes no reference to Proveana, while the German language site features a number of documents about it. It seems that the DZK has no plans currently to change this. To read about Proveana and to access the database, click here.Dutch Culture Minister establishes Committee to conduct comprehensive review of Dutch art restitution policy and report back by 1 October 2020In a letter of 17 December 2019 to Holland's Council for Culture (Raad voor Cultuur), the Culture Minister Ingrid van Engelshoven reminds the Council that 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the start of the Second World War during which large scale looting of cultural property took place from mostly Jewish owners. The current restitution policy was drawn up in 2001 in order to combat the injustice and the restitutions that had not been made by the Netherlands. While much has been achieved, and amendments made since then, she states that there is much concern about whether the restitution policy in its current form is still adequate. In 2016 her predecessor as minister promised Parliament that the policy would be thoroughly re-evaluated in 2020, and she commands the Council to set up an advisory committee with the following remit:To evaluate the current policy with particular regard to its legal and moral aspects.To advise on possible improvements of the policyShe states that "In order to carry out this assignment, I expect you to hold discussions with the parties involved" and instructs the Committee 'to include at least the following aspects in its evaluation of the policy:The relationship between Dutch policy and the international guideline, the Washington Principles.A comparison of Dutch policy with restitution policy abroad, especially in countries with a similar restitution policy.The accessibility and familiarity of the restitution policy, with an eye for the suffering of the victims and the dialogue with their heirs.The use of and need for other forms of individual restitution.The three pillars of the policy and whether they require further development (the three pillars being compiling an inventory of looted art in Holland, identification identification of possible heirs of artworks in the NK collection, and restitution through the issuing of advice from the Restitutions Committee)The relationship of the policy to developments in the field of heritage and restitution. Consider, for example, the recent Pechtold Committee advisory report.She writes that she 'would like to receive the Council's advice on restitution policy before 1 October 2020, after which I will submit my response to the House of Representatives'.To read the letter, in Dutch, click here.13 January 2020: Fifth Newsletter of the Network of European Restitution Committes On Nazi-Looted ArtIn his editorial, Clemens Jabloner, chair of the Austrian Art Restitution Board and Austrian Federal Minister of Justice, writes:Further and closer cooperation on different questions can be expected in the future, not least the discussion of comparative law and the various legal solutions. At the conference marking the twentieth anniversary of the CIVS in November, my British counterpart in art restitution, Sir Donnell Deeny, stated publicly: The particular element that our five committees have in common is that they are all chaired by serving or retired senior judges, and, thus, inherently qualified and disposed to provide to the parties a fair process and independent and impartial adjudication. I am curious to find out what other similarities and points in common will be identified in the future.To read the Newsletter, click here.6 January 2020: Two Dutch Restitution Decisions - Dr Franz Oppenheimer and Herbert GutmannAt the end of December 2019 the Dutch Restitutions Committee published their recommendation of restitution for 107 Meissen objects to the heirs of Dr Franz Oppenheimer. At the beginning of January 2020 they published their recommendation of restituiton for 14 Meissen objects to the heirs of Herbert Gutmann. In the Oppenheimer case the DRC concluded that it was 'highly likely' that Dr Oppenheimer 'lost possession of these objects involuntarily due to circumstances directly related to the Nazi regime' and that they should be restituted even if they were of importance to the Dutch state. In the Gutmann case, the DRC concluded the objects were 'auctioned off involuntarily, under pressure caused by circumstances directly connected with the Nazi regime. On these grounds, the Committee's opinion is that the Applicants' interests in the restitution of the objects must be given greater weight than the State's interests in retaining them'.All 107 Oppenheimer object groups are currently 'part of the Dutch National Art Collection. Of these, 90 object groups are on loan to the Rijksmuseum. The other seventeen object groups are part of the Netherlands Art Property Collection (the NK collection) and are on loan to the Kunstmuseum Den Haag (thirteen object groups) and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (four object groups)'. The 14 Gutmann objects are currently 'in Het Loo Palace, the Rijksmuseum and the Zuiderzeemuseum. All objects are part of the Dutch National Art Collection and are the property of the Dutch State'.To read the Oppenheimer recommendation, click here. To read the Gutmann recommendation, click here.To read the Gutmann heirs' press release, click here.12 December 2019: Digitisation of 3-volume Greater Berlin Address Books for 1932-1934The Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (ZLB) has now digitised three volumes of the Dietzler Auto-Adressbuch for Grosse-Berlin (Greater Berlin) for the years 1932-1934 and these are freely available to all users at https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/metadata/34280679/1/LOG_0000/26 October 2019: Lost Music Project: The Nazi-Era Plunder of Music in Europe Carel van Lier c. 1930. Looted and restituted ivory hunting horn The Estate of Erwin BlumenfeldThe Lost Music Project seeks to reconstruct the history of musical material culture looted, confiscated, displaced, or otherwise lost during the Nazi era in occupied Europe, and the aftermath. Evolving research regarding musical manuscripts, printed music, music-related books and archives, musical instruments, and other musicalia documented in public and private archives will be posted to the Project website. In addition to new research, a goal of this project is to make both information and copies of primary source historical records accessible to the public for further research efforts and analysis. The project is led by Dr Carla Shapreau, Lecturer in art and cultural property law at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, School of Law, SeniorFellow in the Institute of European Studies, where she isconducting cultural property research, and Curator of the Salz Collection in the Department of Music. For further informaton and to see the website, click here.23 October 2019: Publication of the Fourth Newsletter of the Network of European Restitution Committes On Nazi-Looted ArtThe latest Newletter has an editorial by chair of the German Commission, Hans-J rgen Papier, who writes that the Network is important since "all commissions are dealing with similar problems in the handling of their cases, such as how to deal with gaps in the provenance of an item which, despite intensive research, can not be closed; also dealing with the so-called Fluchtgut is one of the aspects that are discussed intensively. For this reason, I am very confident that the network has created another important measure, which will strengthen the work of the commissions in terms of identifying and returning Nazi-looted property and finding fair and just solutions."Elsewhere in the Newsletter is the 2018 annual report of France's CIVS; advanced notice of a report for the Network by Dr Charlotte Woodhead, to be published in November, on how each committee operates and the differences in approach in determining claims (Recommendation 3 of the 2017 Spoliation Action Plan); a report on the 2011 successful claim by the Budge heirs for three Meissen figures in the Victoria Albert Museum, London; and the 'presentation' of the Austrian Art Restitution Act and the two bodies created as a result, the Commission for Provenance Research and the Advisory Board.To read the Newsletter, click here. 17 October 2019: Claimants in the Guelph Treasure respond to Germany's petition to the U.S. Supreme CourtThe claimants for the Guelph Treasure (Welfenschatz) in the possession of Germany's Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) have filed their opposition to the petition filed by the SPK and the Federal Republic of Germany in September 2019 seeking judicial review of a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upholding jurisdiction over the claims. That court rejected in July 2018 and again in June 2019 the appeal by the SPK arguing that the US courts had no jurisdiction over the claim. Germany s petition to the Supreme Court argues that the allegations concerning the Guelph Treasure were not a taking of property in violation of international law, but rather a question of the Nazis taking property from their own nationals within their own territory. In response, the claimants argue that the U.S. statute conferring jurisdiction applies to genocidal takings of property in the Holocaust, and that U.S. policy as reflected in the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act compels hearing the case.The claimants also filed a request to return Germany to the lawsuit. The same Court of Appeals last year ruled that the commercial activity of the SPK in the United States was insufficient under the law to obtain jurisdiction over Germany. The claimants address their argument that this reading is at odds with the statute s text. Germany will have the opportunity to respond in the next 30 days.To read the claimants' brief in opposition to the German petition, click here. To read the claimants' cross-petition to return Germany to the lawsuit, click here.10 October 2019: The Ludwig Ginsberg Collection The Technical University of Berlin in collaboration with the Department of Modern Art History (Prof. B n dicte Savoy) is undertaking a one-year project dedicated to the systematic examination and research of the Adolph Menzel Collection of the Berlin banker Ludwig Ginsberg (1873-1939). The extensive collection of Menzel's graphic works comprised a large number of rare prints and contained works on paper, some of them of exceptional quality and beauty. It was described in 1930 as the largest Menzel collection ever in private ownership. The Ginsberg Collection was auctioned off in several lots and is largely lost today. So far, works from the collection have appeared in the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin and at the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum in D ren. Both museums will restitute the works that have been added to their collections as a result of persecution.The project also focuses on research into Ludwig Ginsberg's fate as a persecuted person and the aryanization of the Bank Gebr der Ginsberg. The TU seeks proactive support for the project, especially from colleagues in provenance research and custodians of graphic collections. The project is funded by the Deutsche Zentrum Kulturgutverluste. Further information about the project and the Ginsberg family can be found here.17 May 2019 University of Bonn: Research project on international practice in the restitution of Nazi-looted art: “Restatement of Restitution Rules”A German government funded research project on international practice in the restitution of artworks stolen under the Nazi regime has been established. Led by Prof. Dr. Matthias Weller, the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach professor of civil law, art and cultural property law at the University of Bonn, it aims "to provide a comprehensive, comparative analysis of international practice in the restitution of Nazi-looted art [and] to establish a generalized set of rules on how decisions are made based on considerations of fairness and justice. Once established, these rules can be used as guidance and support for those who make decisions and recommendations on matters of restitution."For full details and to attend the presentation of the project in Bonn on 6 September, click here. Seeking the owner of the 'O' Collection of Frankfurt am Main, GermanyOn 18 and 19 November 1938, 43 works from the 'O.' collection of Frankfurt am Main, designated in the auction catalogue as 'non-Aryan' or 'Nichtarischer Besitz', were sold by the Hans Lange auction house in Berlin. They included paintings by Aert van der Neer, Jacob Ruysdael, Thomas Wijck, Franz von Lenbach, Adolf Lier, Caspar Scheuren, Carl Spitzweg and Adolf von Menzel. If anyone has information on the identity of the owner of the 'O' collection, please write to info@lootedart.com. To see the Lange catalogue, click here.Online Resources and Case NewsCountry-specific information is available on this site for 48 countries, from Albania to Yugoslavia, in the Information by Country section. Details of important, non country-specific, online resources are available in the International section of the site which contains several categories of information. For example: Restitutions and Case News: provides details of claims and cases ruled on or settled outside the courts with copies of reports and rulings.Full details of a comprehensive range of cases can be found in the News Archive, which is fully searchable by name of family, artwork, museum, city, etc.Lawsuits: provides details of claims and cases ruled on or being settled in court with copies of court filings and judgements.Research Resources: provides details of family records, tracing services, art historical resources, texts of post-war reports, and books and publications.Web Resources: provides details of various online databases oflooted paintings, results of provenance research in countries around the world, archival records available online and other research materials.Seeking Owners of Identified Looted Property: provides lists ofnames of individuals whose looted property has been identified in institutions in Germany and whose heirs are being sought.Other categories of information include Governmental Conferences and Hearings, Laws, Policies and Guidelines,Art Trade, and Press, Television,Radio and Film. To explore all these sections, click here.The site is regularly updatedwith new resources and developments. To provide details of resources or cases to add tothe site, please email info@lootedart.com.

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