Readers of the Art Law Report will know that we have regularly touted the collaborative efforts of the Art Law Centre of the University of Geneva, the Fondation pour le Droit d’Art (Art Law Foundation), and now the Responsible Art Market Initiative to develop a center of gravity in Geneva around practical, real-world solutions in the commercial art market. This has resulted in a number of terrific and informative events about which we have written before.
The new year brings another exciting event. Later this month, I will be in Geneva for the next Responsible Art Market event: “Building an Art Market 2.0.” Scheduled as in the past to coincide with the artgenève fair at the Palexpo, it will be an interesting and informative session. I was honored to be part of the taskforce for the “Art Due Diligence” toolkit project that will be finalized before the event later this month and look forward to sharing it with commentators and participants. If you can make it (register here), I hope you will join us there! From the program:
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Topics:
AXA Art Insurance Corporation,
Art Law Foundation,
artgenève,
Johannes Nathan,
Art Law Centre,
University of Geneva,
Heidi Amrein,
Alexandre Catsicas,
The Fine Art Group,
Deloitte AG,
Thomas Belohlavek,
Laura Gowen,
Marco Grossi,
Emilie Mermillod,
Seydoux & Associés Fine Art SA,
Freya Stewart,
Artmyn SA
The National Gallery London hosted on September 12, 2017 the much-anticipated conference “70 Years and Counting: the Final Opportunity?” organized by the United Kingdom Department for Digital, Culture Media & Sport (DCCS), and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe (CLAE). Delegates from numerous countries gathered to consider the state of progress on the efforts to identify and return works of art lost during the Nazi era. While the event had a truly international flair, the discussion centered primarily on the five countries that have created some sort of process to consider assertions of looted art in response to the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art: England, France, Austria, the Netherlands, and Germany.
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Victoria and Albert Museum,
Kunstrückgabebeirat,
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte,
National Gallery London,
Constantine Cannon LLP,
Commission for Looted Art in Europe,
Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art,
Christie's,
Advisory Commission,
Johannes Nathan,
Monica Dugot,
Imke Gielen,
Sotheby's,
Neumeister Auction House,
Richard Aronowitz-Mercer,
Tony Baumgartner,
Clyde & Co.,
John Glen,
UK Spoliation Advisory Panel,
The Orpheus Clock,
Art Restitution Advisory Board,
Margreet Soeting,
H. Blairman & Sons Ltd.,
Katrin Stoll,
Department for Digital Culture Media & Sport,
DCCS,
CLAE,
70 Years and Counting: the Final Opportunity?,
Gabriele Finaldi,
David Lewis,
Minister for the Arts Heritage and Tourism,
Sir Paul Jenkins,
Dr. Antonia Boström,
von Trott zu Solz Lammek,
Simon Goodman,
Sir Donnell Deeny,
Jan Bank,
Restitutions Committee of the Netherlands,
Dr. Reinhard Binder-Krieglstein,
Professor Dr. Reinhard Rürup,
Jean-Pierre Bady,
Commission pour l’indemnisation des victimes,
CVIS,
Dr. Christian Fuhrmeister,
British Library,
Nathan Fine Art,
Stedelijk Museum,
Pierre Valentine,
Martin Levy
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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Topics:
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
I won’t be in the neighborhood, but the Oskar Reinhart Museum in Winterthur (Switzerland) is putting on a conference for the second year in a row on August 31. 2015 wrestling with the issue of “flight goods” in particular. “Flight goods” refers to property that was not stolen outright, nor sold under duress, but left behind because of a flight in haste from persecution. Awareness has increased in recent years about this as a category of looted property to be addressed. As with other categories, issues of law, morality, and the rights of subsequent good faith owners/possessors make for interesting discussions. Notable presenters include Matthias Frehner, whose Kunstmuseum Bern is grappling with the Gurlitt bequest, and Anja Heuss, whose Staatsgalerie Stuttgart recently restituted a work to the heirs of I. Rosenbaum. All the speakers and topics look excellent.
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Berlin,
Dr. Peter Raue,
Walter Feilchenfeldt,
Esther Tisa Francini,
Museum Rietberg,
Olaf Ossmann,
Cornelius Gurlitt,
Marc Fehlmann,
Art Dealers Association of Switzerland,
Between Fairness and Justice for Successors and Po,
Oskar Reinhart Museum,
Anja Heuss,
Kulturstiftung der Länder,
Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste,
Claudius Ochsner,
Matthias Frehner,
Alexander Jolles,
Winterthur,
Dr. Stephanie Tasch,
Kunsthandelsverband der Schweiz,
Karin Salm,
Universität Salzburg,
Thomas Buomberger,
Restitution,
Events,
Johannes Nathan,
Looted Art,
World War II,
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart,
Switzerland,
Kunstmuseum Bern,
Andrea Baresel-Brand,
flight goods,
Zürich,
Prof. Dr. Georg Graf,
Radio SRF 2,
I. Rosenbaum,
Sibylle Ehringhaus
