PUBL: Craig Hugh Smyth – The Central Art Collecting Point in Munich (2022; free download available)
Between June 1945 and March 1946 the art historian Craig Hugh Smyth was the first director of the Central Collecting Point, the institution in Munich where the US Military Government in Germany collected…
EXH: Taking Stock. Gurlitt in Review (Kunstmuseum Bern, 16 Sept 2022-15 Jan 2023)
Taking stock means being accountable. The Kunstmuseum Bern accepted the legacy of Cornelius Gurlitt (1932 – 2014) in November 2014. Since December 2021, around 1600 works of art from the estate of the art…
ANN: Reminder – German Lost Art Foundation series of talks with descendants of Jewish art collectors (Johannes Nathan, 1 Sep 2022)
The final of the German Lost Art Foundation’s three-part series of discussions with descendants of Jewish art collectors takes place on 1 September with Johannes Nathan. The format continues from its introduction in 2021…
ANN: Resolving Restitution Disputes Seminar (Institute of Art & Law; London, 27 Sep 2022)
The Institute of Art & Law will hold an in-person seminar in London on 27th September entitled “Resolving Restitution Disputes: Process, reconciliation and creativity”, run in partnership with Keystone Law. The seminar will cover…
ANN: German Lost Art Foundation to hold a series of talks with descendants of Jewish art collectors (11 July: Alfred Fass; 25 July: Rafael Cardoso; 1 Sept: Johannes Nathan)
The German Lost Art Foundation will present a three-part series of discussions with descendants of Jewish art collectors over this summer. The format continues from its introduction in 2021 during the festival year “#2021JLID…
ANN: Still Life with Flowers – A Case Study in the Need for an Improved Canadian Museum Restitution Procedure, Lecture by Sara Angel (Collecting and Display, 9 May 2022, 6pm BST)
This talk will address the restitution of the painting “Still Life with Flowers” (1660) attributed to Jan van Kessel II. In late 2020, the painting, which had been in the collection of the…
CONF: The Return of Looted Artefacts since 1945: post-fascist and post-colonial restitution in comparative perspective (Max Weber Foundation; 16-18 May 2022)
The Max Weber Foundation’s annual conference provides a forum for the foundation’s institutes and their research topics, as well as for other partner institutions. The event is organized and hosted by a different…
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…
ANN: Spoliations d’oeuvres d’art et enjeux financiers et économiques pendant l’Occupation, lecture by Arnaud Manas (Séminaire Patrimoine spolié pendant la période du nazisme, 16 March 2022, 19:00 CET)
La nouvelle séance de notre séminaire « Patrimoine spolié pendant la période du nazisme (1933-1945) – Conséquences, mémoires et traces de la spoliation », a lieu le 16 mars. Cette séance est consacrée aux Spoliations d’œuvres d’art et enjeux…