PUB: Named Experts in Fine Art Auction Text from the Getty Provenance Index German Sales (1900–1945) by Mathew Henrickson
The dataset is an enhanced subset of the “Getty Provenance Index – German Sales art auction data”. It contains the extracted names of art experts and connoisseurs who authenticated works appearing for sale…
PUBL: The art collection of John Waterloo Wilson (1815-1883) (RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History)
By Marijne Boland The British-Belgian cotton manufacturer John Waterloo Wilson (1815-1883) brought together an impressive collection of seventeenth-century and contemporary art. Wilson is no unknown collector and manufacturer. Through his connections in the…
PUBL: The Exhibition of Travelling – Senzacornice Journal n. 1/2025
The monographic issue “The Exhibition of Travelling. Exhibitions, Editorial Projects, and the Birth of New Networks in the Italian Art System since the Postwar Period”, edited by Alessandra Acocella and Caterina Toschi, inaugurates…
PUB: Surya Bower, Shreya Gupta, Liberty Paterson & Niti Acharya, ‘State of the (Future) Field: The History of Collecting and Its Institutions’, History: The Journal of the Historical Association, November 2024
Abstract This article considers the state of the field of the history of collecting and its institutions. Following on from a 2021 ‘state of the field’ article, also published in this journal, the…
PUBL (OA): Quelle und Kontext: Objekte, Akteure, Prozesse der Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler (ed. by C. Dollansky, C. Fuhrmeister, B. Jooss, S. Klingen, A.-L. Schneider; Munich, 2024)
This volume publishes results of a seven-year digitization and research project (2017-2024) revolving around the archive of the Julius Böhler Kunsthandlung, founded in Munich in 1882. Acquired by the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in…
PUBL: Handreichung Kulturgutentzug Sowjetische Besatzungszone und DDR
Die Handreichung „Kulturgutentzug in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone und in der DDR: Historische Hintergründe – Praxisbeispiele – Rechercheansätze“ trägt dem gewachsenen Interesse von Museumsmitarbeiterinnen und -mitarbeitern Rechnung, sich mit problematischen Sammlungszugängen nach 1945 zu…
PUB: The Social World of Galleries Contemporary Art, the Market and Internationalization by Alain Quemin, Translated by Keara Engelhardt (Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2024, 480 p.)
Abstract: This book presents the first detailed study of the place of contemporary art galleries and gallerists, especially within the art markets of Europe and the United States. Based on the author’s field…
PUB: Bona Fide Acquisition, Usucapion and Treasure Trove: Differences in German, Belgian and English Law (Art Antiquity and Law, Volume XXIX, Issue 3 October 2024, p. 200 – 2014)
Abstract: The cross-border trade within Europe – especially within the strong economic area between London, Benelux and Germany – is intense. Despite Brexit, London will presumably remain one of the art-dealing capitals of…
PUB: Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections. A research guide by Jacques Schuhmacher (UCL Press 2024 / open access)
When we look at the artworks on display in museums, there is always a real possibility that some of these objects once belonged to victims of the Nazis – a possibility that has…