I am looking forward to being in Vienna next week for the start of the conference to be held at the University of Vienna Library beginning Tuesday evening, May 2, 2017. The conference goes until May 4. Entitled “Accepting and Holding Objects in Trust—an International and Interdisciplinary Perspective,” the conference will explore a variety of restitution-related topics. From the program, the schedule is below (papers will be given in part in English, but it appears mostly in German). Registration is available until April 30, hope to see you there.
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Topics:
Russian State Library,
Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Austria,
Jewish Museum Prague,
University of Vienna,
Dr. Regina Hitzenberger,
Hannah M. Lessing,
Victims of National Socialism,
Olivia Kaiser,
Christina Köstner - Pemsel,
Markus Stumpf,
Oliver Rathkolb,
Institut für Rechts-und Verfassungsgeschichte,
Leonhard Weidinger,
Michael Wladika,
Anneliese Schallmeiner,
Alexandra Caruso,
Bundesdenkmalamt (BDA),
Thomas Rudert,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden,
Jana Kocourek,
SLUB Dresden,
Petra Winter,
Zentralarchiv der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin,
Preußischer Kulturbesitz,
Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin,
Reinhard Buchberger,
Michal Bušek,
Tomáš Foltýn,
Marcela Strouhalova,
Czech National Library,
Prague,
Michael Nosek,
Johana Prouzová,
Bertrand Perz,
Monika Mayer,
Monika Löscher,
Christian Mertens,
Philipp Mettauer,
Wienbibliothek im Rathaus,
INJOEST,
Pia Schölnberger,
Johannes Gramlich,
Stephan Kellner,
Murray Hall,
Institut für Germanistik,
Kamil Zeidler,
Julia Stepnowska,
Nawojka Cieslinska-Lobkowicz,
Lara Lempertienė,
Ekaterina Oleshkevich,
Anna Kawałko,
Hebrew University,
Jörn Kreuzer,
National Fund,
Dr. James Bindenagel,
Institut für Zeitgeschichte,
Sebastian Spitra,
Christian George,
UB Mainz,
Sammlung Pollák in Prager Museen,
Kommission für Provenienzforschung,
Albertina Wien,
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München,
Judaica Center National Library, Vilnius,
Institut Geschichte der Juden
Most often in restitution battles the disagreement boils down to whether a painting was looted, and/or whether it changed hands under circumstances that failed to pass clear title to the predecessor of its current possessor. Then, controversy frequently ensues about the extent to which the possessor resists restitution on grounds other than the title of the painting (jurisdiction, statute of limitations, etc.). Rarer is the type of dispute where the parties don’t even agree about what they’re disagreeing about, like the one brewing between Austria and Poland over a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) in Vienna, The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559).
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Topics:
Musée des Beaux Arts,
Brussels,
Krakow,
Nazi-looted art,
Diana Blonska,
Gauleiter,
Otto Gustav von Wächter,
Feliks Kopera,
Charlotte Wächter (née Bleckmann),
Restitution,
Kampf gegen Fasching und Fasten,
Frau Wächter,
Pieter Bruegel the Elder,
Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Poland,
Austria,
Museums,
Vienna,
The Battle Between Carnival and Lent
The Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Committee of the International Bar Association (of which I am a member) will be sponsoring an event March 26-27, 2015 at Sotheby’s in London. The IBA Individual Tax and Private Client Committee is also a co-sponsor, in connection with the IBA European Regional Forum. Sotheby’s is located at 34-35 New Bond Street in London.
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Topics:
Karen Sanig,
Daniel Simon Collyer Bristow,
Helly Nahmed Gallery,
The Princely Collections,
Lucian Simmons Steven Thomas,
Art Finance,
Mary Romano,
Rina Pantalony,
Philip Hoffman,
International Julius Baer,
Luke Dugdale,
Helly Nahmad,
UGGC Avocats,
Studio Legale Jacobacci & Associati,
Mark Cornell,
UK Government Art Collection,
ICOM,
Daniel Tunkel Howard Kennedy,
Peter Polak,
David Arendt,
Adrian Parkhouse,
Diana Wierbicki,
Paris,
Guy Simonius,
Bloomberg,
Johann Kräftner,
Art Cultural Institutions and Heritage Committee o,
Columbia University,
Geneva; Wendy Philips,
Herrick,
ARIS Title,
Melanie Gerlis The Art Newspaper,
Jasper Sharp,
Sandrine Giroud,
Cadell & Co,
Scotland Yard,
Lalive,
Jean-Francois Canat,
Houston Francesca von Habsburg,
1858 Ltd Art Advisory,
Viola Reikhel-Bolot,
UCLA School of Law,
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary,
Stephen D Brodie,
Fine Art Wealth Management,
The Fine Art Fund Group,
Marlborough Contemporary,
Los Angeles,
Randall Willette,
Events,
Massimo Sterpi,
Luxembourg,
Sherri North Cohen,
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions,
Le Freeport,
Kunsthistorisches Museum,
LIECHTENSTEIN,
Adrian George,
Fabrizio Moretti,
Alfredo Perez,
Mishcon de Reya¸ George Bailey,
TEFAF Maastricht,
Mark Stephens,
Dick Ellis,
IBA Individual Tax and Private Client Committee,
Goldsmiths London University,
Andrew Renton,
Withers,
Sotheby's,
Legal Issues in Museum Administration,
Vaduz,
Zürich,
IBA,
Vienna,
Pure Love of Art versus Mere Investment,
New York
