I am speaking at a conference on March 23-24, 2017 at the University of Cambridge (UK) entitled “From Refugees to Restitution: The History of Nazi Looted Art in the UK in Transnational Perspective.” My presentation will address the various national panels created in response to the Washington Conference by European countries to address claims for Nazi-looted art in state collections. The roster of speakers is impressive (present company excluded), and it promises to be a fascinating two days. The program is available here, and the conference website is here.
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Wiesbaden,
London,
Holocaust Art Restitution Project,
Paris,
Art Recovery Group,
Constantine Cannon LLP,
Emily Löffler,
Pierre Valentin,
Events,
Johannes Nathan,
Karlsruhe,
Marc Masurovsky,
Sotheby's,
Nicholas M. O'Donnell,
Emmanuelle Polack,
Leopold Museum,
Frankfurt,
Jewish Claims Conference,
Victoria Louise Steinwachs,
Debbie De Girolamo,
Tabitha I. Oost,
Bianca Gaudenzi,
Jewish Museum Prague,
Robert Holzbauer,
Tessa Rosebrock,
Staatliche Kunsthalle,
Laurel Zuckerman,
Shlomit Steinberg,
Richard Aronowitz-Mercer,
Maike Brueggen,
Nathalie Neumann,
Simone Gigliotti,
Royal Holloway University of London,
Anne O. Popham,
Ulrike Schmiegelt-Rietig,
Isabel von Klitzing,
Landesmuseum Mainz,
Michaela Sidenberg,
Mary Kate Cleary,
Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art,
Fluchtgut,
Diana Kostyrko,
Elizabeth Campbell,
University of Denver,
Evelien Campfens,
Leiden University,
Angelina Giovani,
Jennifer Gramer,
Agata Wolska,
Nathan Fine Art GmbH,
Potsdam,
Friederike Schwelle,
Art Loss Register,
Provenance Research & Art Consulting
Three New Members Are Added but German Museums Can Still Decline to Participate
After nearly a year of hinting at changes the Advisory Commission in Germany that makes recommendations to state museums on claims for allegedly Nazi-looted works in their collections (“Beratende Kommission im Zusammenhang mit der Rückgabe NS-verfolgungsbedingt entzogener Kulturgüter, insbesondere aus jüdischem Besitz,” or “Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish property”), the federal government announced last week the addition of three new members. Yet despite public outcry over the outdated and opaque procedures of the commission (better known as the Limbach Commission, in reference to the late Jutta Limbach, presiding member and former judge of the Constitutional Court), none of the fundamental flaws in the panel have been confronted or addressed. Instead, the occasion has served as little more than another photo opportunity for federal Minister of Culture Monika Grütters, whose visage dutifully accompanies all the recent announcements.
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Legislation,
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
Stefan Koldehoff,
Beratende Kommission,
Gurlitt,
NS Raubkunst,
Restitution,
Bavarian State Paintings Collection,
Looted Art,
World War II,
Süddeutsche Zeitung,
Monika Grütters,
Limbach Commission,
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen,
Raphael Gross,
Gary Smith,
Marion Eckart-Hofer,
Simon Dubnow Institute,
American Academy in Berlin,
Rudiger Mahlo,
Jewish Claims Conference
