ANN: Shared knowledge graphs as a tool in recovering (Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste, Berlin – 15 Sept 2025 18:00 CEST)
On Monday, 15 September 2025, at 6 pm, Laurel Zuckerman will be talking on “Provenance and Restitution: Shared knowledge graphs as a tool in recovering looted cultural heritage and the histories of marginalized…
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…