ANN: Italy and the Question of Nazi-Fascist Looted Art: the Value of Provenance Research in the case of Umberto Boccioni’s ‘Maestra di scena: Ritratto della Signora Adalgisa Maffi’ (1909/1910) (ENG) (Evening lecture 28 May 2025, 6:45 pm CEST, online)
Evening lecture series organized by the working group Italy of the Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V. This year‘s online lecture series will focus on three case studies about Nazi-fascist provenance research and beyond in the…
ANN: Curated Theft (Documentary)
Russian forces looted two museums in Kherson in the fall of 2022 — the Art Museum and the Museum of Local History. As the Russian army retreated amid the Ukrainian counteroffensive, it seized…
ANN: L’hôtel Drouot et le rôle du commissaire-priseur pendant l’Occupation – Lecture by Dominique Ribeyre and Isabelle Rouge-Ducos (INHA Paris, 21 Jun 2023)
Historienne de l’art, Isabelle Rouge-Ducos reviendra sur le développement du métier de commissaire-priseur, pour questionner de près son rôle pendant l’Occupation au sein de l’hôtel de Drouot, seule maison de ventes publiques alors…
CONF: Carried Away! Research into the Provenance of Museum Objects from the ‘Boxer War’ (Humboldt Forum, Berlin, 2-3 Mar 2023)
On 2 and 3 March 2023, a workshop will be held at the Humboldt Forum on the provenance research conducted as part of the collaborative project Traces of the ‘Boxer War’ in German…
CFP: Spuren des ‘Boxerkrieges’ in deutschen Museumssammlungen (Berlin, 2-3 Mar 2023)
Am 2. und 3. März 2023 lädt das vom Deutschen Zentrum Kulturgutverluste geförderte Verbundprojekt „Spuren des ‚Boxerkrieges‘ in deutschen Museumssammlungen – eine gemeinsame Annäherung“ zu einem öffentlichen Workshop nach Berlin ein. Der Workshop soll…
ANN: Research Group on Looted Art, Provenance Research and Restitution in the Netherlands (Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture, University of Amsterdam)
The spoliation of art during the Nazi-era and the Holocaust is the central focus of this research group. However, we extend it to colonial and other contexts as well. The group is concerned…
TIAMSA Member News: ANN: Conversation on Hugo Helbing with Lea Rosh and Johannes Nathan (German Lost Art Foundation / Liebermann-Villa; recording now online; in German)
Hugo Helbing (1863-1938) was one of the leading art dealers and auctioneers in Europe until c. 1933. He also owned a significant art collection. Apart from his main business in Munich, Helbing maintained a…
ANN: Association pour le Soutien aux Travaux de Recherche Engagés sur les Spoliations – ASTRES: Assemblée générale 2022 (Paris, Musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme, 11 May 2022 19:30-21:30)
L’Association pour le Soutien aux Travaux de Recherche Engagés sur les Spoliations – ASTRES tiendra son assemblée générale au musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme le 11 mai prochain. Astres a été fondée en 2019 et…
ANN: “Tracking looted art” – Invitation to an information event by the German Lost Art Foundation at EU level (online, 5 May 2022, 15:00 CEST)
Almost ten years have passed since the discovery of the “Gurlitt art trove” brought the Nazi regime’s looting of millions of artworks from Jewish citizens to wider public attention. In the last five years or…