The Austrian Art Restitution Act entered into force on 5 December 1998. To mark its 25th anniversary, the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport hosted a event on 5 December 2023 at which the anthology Restituiert (“Restituted”), edited by Birgit Kirchmayr and Pia …
Picture montage of some positives (before 1924) from the collection of Anna and Konrad Mautner | pos/9425, pos/9426, pos/9514 to pos/9520, pos/9525 to pos/9529, pos/11518 to 11524 and pos/12467/ab, inventoried 1938/39 | Scan: Photo Collection
(c) Volkskundemuseum Wien
On 21 April 2023, the exhibition "Collected at Any Cost!", supported by the National Fund, opens at the Vienna Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art. It asks why certain objects came into the museum as a result of the Nazi regime in Austria and how best to deal with them.
On 13 December 2022, books were returned to the heirs of Heinrich Klang (1875-1954) in a multi-party, transnational restitution.Klang, who was renowned for his commentary on the Austrian General Civil Code, habilitated in Austrian Private Law at the University of Vienna in 1923 and received the …
Held under the motto "Researching provenance in museums, libraries and archives", the International Provenance Research Day will take place for the fourth time on April 13, 2022. According to the Arbeitskreis für Provenienzforschung, nearly 100 cultural institutions in Europe and the United States …
From 7-9 April 2022, the Philharmonie de Paris will be hosting a conference entitled “The spoliation of musical instruments in Europe. 1933–1945”. It will first focus on the looting of musical instruments during the Nazi era in general, followed by presentations on the most important research …
In 2012, hundreds of paintings and art objects from the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt were confiscated under suspicion of looted art. The Gurlitt estate went to the Kunstmuseum Bern, where it was to be researched. In 2017, a special department for provenance research was established there. The …
The research database Proveana is a project of the German Lost Art Fundation, which aims to facilitate provenance research by documenting historical information and also to make it more transparent. The research database is aimed not only at provenance researchers from museums, collections, …
One year after the foundation of the Network of European Restitution Committees, Austria will take over the chairmanship for the year 2020. Until now, France has held this position under the leadership of Jérôme Bénézech and his CIVS team. Last year, five European commissions were set up for the …
On November 29, the Lentos in Linz will host a symposium dedicated to the art dealer and collector Wolfgang Gurlitt. The focus is on the close and problematic relationship between Gurlitt and the city of Linz. The museum still manages the Gurlitt Collection today. In the course of the event, …
On the initiative of the Belgian government, a database is to be set up, to publish all the works of art that were presumably stolen during the Nazi era.108 objects from eleven Belgian museums contain not only paintings, but also sculptures, furniture and tapestries.So far, the those museums …
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