PUBL: “The Gurlitt Art Trove – Recent Research” / “Kunstfund Gurlitt – Wege der Forschung” (in German; volume ed. by A. Baresel-Brand, N. Bahrmann, G. Lupfer, Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste 2020)
2013 wurde infolge einer Beschlagnahme der „Schwabinger Kunstfund“ in den Blick der Weltöffentlichkeit katapultiert und damit der Kunsthändler Hildebrand Gurlitt (1895–1956), bei dessen Sohn Cornelius (1935–2014) sich die Werke befunden hatten. Eine Taskforce wurde…
TIAMSA News: Online presentation “Just and Fair Solutions? – Fundamentals of a Restitution Culture for Artworks Confiscated During Nazi Persecution” by Matthias Weller (Bonn). Tuesday, 13 April 2021, 6p.m. (CEST)
The Nazi regime was obsessed with art. Hitler, Göring and others built up their own “collections” and looted works of art they were interested in from everyone and everywhere, very often from persecuted…
CFP: Bringing down the Archive Fever (Zagreb, 21-22 Oct 2021)
Call for papers for Bringing down the Archive Fever – opening and collaborating on photography archives and collectionsZagreb, Croatia, 21–22 Oct 2021Deadline: 1 Jun 2021 Photography archives are more than just collecting, writing…
CFP: The materialities of belonging: Objects in/of exile across the Mediterranean (Mobile Culture Studies, 2021; deadline 15 Apr 2021)
The call for the upcoming thematic issue 2021 of ›mcsj› (Mobile Cultural Studies Journal) is dedicated to following the trajectories of displaced things and persons, all by being open to the “surprise of…
PUBL: New IAL Book – Lyndel Prott: Commentary on the 1995 UNIDROIT CONVENTION
The Institute of Art and Law announces the forthcoming publication of the second edition of Lyndel Prott’s Commentary on the 1995 “UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects: Return and Restitution in…
ANN: New Digital Collections Available from the Wildenstein Plattner Institute
The WPI has announced the long-anticipated release of three prestigious archival collections, which provide significant information for market studies and provenance research of 19th and 20th century French art.
CONF: Provenance Research Day 2021: What Is Provenance Research, How Does It Work? (online / Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte & Forschungsverbund Provenienzforschung Bayern, 14 Apr 2021, 14:30-16:00; in German)
Tag der Provenienzforschung 2021: Provenienzforschung – was ist das und wie geht das?14.04.2021von 14:30 bis 16:00Zoom
STIP: Mercator PhD-Scholarship “Collecting Contemporary Art” (Univ. Cologne / Museum f. Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany) and additional PhD-Scholarships
Zum 1. Oktober 2021 schreibt die a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne, die Graduiertenschule der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität zu Köln, bis zu 6 praxis- und berufsfeldbezogene Promotionsstipendien in Höhe von €…
CONF: Online Seminars on the Resarch Database ‘Proveana‘ / Online-Seminare zur Forschungsdatenbank ‚Proveana’ (online / Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste, 14 Apr 2021; in German)
Zum Tag der Provenienzforschung am 14. April 2021 bietet das Deutsche Zentrum Kulturgutverluste mehrere Online-Seminare zum Einstieg in die Forschungsdatenbank Proveana (www.proveana.de) an. Anmeldeschluss: 13.04.2021