ANN: Register an event for the Provenance Research Day on 12 April 2023 (Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung)
A Provenance Research Day has been organized every year since 2019. This year it will be held 12 April 2023. With the Provenance Research Day the “Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung” aims to support institutions in…
ANN: Nazi-Era Art Provenance Research Hybrid Training Program (Center for Art Collection Ethics, University of Denver, Colorado / online, 18–23 Jun 2023)
The Center for Art Collection Ethics (ACE) at the University of Denver (DU) is pleased to announce a hybrid training program on the fundamentals of Nazi-era art provenance research, June 18–23, 2023. In…
CFP: Edited Volume: Collecting and the Value of Provenance
Contributions are being sought for a peer-reviewed, English-language edited volume on the value of provenance in collecting and art market practices. This book, to be edited by Christian Huemer and Johannes Nathan, and…
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…