JOB: Provenance Researcher, Art Loss Register, London
The Art Loss Register is the world’s largest private database of lost and stolen art. Its range of services include the registration of losses and recovery services for the victims of theft and…
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…
CONF: Verstaatlicht, verkauft & vergessen? Zum Kulturgutentzug in der SBZ/DDR und der Frage nach Restitution (Stiftung Ettersberg und der Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Thüringen, 7 May 2022)
Das Wissenschaftliche Tagesseminar widmet sich dem Kulturgutentzug in der SBZ/DDR und seiner gesellschaftlichen und juristischen Aufarbeitung. Wohin gelangten die Kunstgegenstände aus verlassenen Thüringer Schlössern und Herrenhäusern in der Nachkriegszeit und welche Rolle spielte das…
CONF: Why are we still looking for Nazi-looted art in Italy? The importance of provenance research and negotiated solutions (Venice, Ateneo Veneto, 25 Mar 2022; also online)
The objective of this conference is to raise awareness of Nazi-looted art in Italy, emphasizing the urgent need of provenance research in Italian art collections and offering practical solutions to those who in the years…
ANN: Seminar “Patrimoine spolié pendant la période du nazisme (1933-1945) – Conséquences, mémoires et traces de la spoliation“ (INHA Paris, Feb-June 2022)
INHA / Institut national d’histoire de l’art. Galerie Colbert, auditorium Jacqueline LichtensteinFÉVRIER – JUIN 2022, 18:30 – 20:00 CET
ANN: The Return of Beauty. Restitution of Nazi-looted Art in Comparative Perspectives (University of Bonn / online, 2 Feb 2022, 18:00-20:00 CET)
This conference is the culmination of a semester-long, unique course titled ‘Nazi-Looted Art: Law and Provenance Research’, a special collaboration between the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, funded by its programme of excellency (Transdisciplinary Research…
CFP: Post-Colonial Heritage in the Present (Rome, 12-13 Oct 2022)
Coming to terms with the long-lasting impact of colonialism has recently been the focus of attention of a number of cultural institutions transnationally. From the 90s onward scholars have noted multiple ways to…
ANN: The “Lexicon of Austrian Provenance Research” has been re-designed (also in English)
The basic idea of the “Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung” is to bring together the findings which the members of the Commission for Provenance Research and further provenance researchers have been gathering since 1998 on…