While the incomparable Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd does not take place in Dresden, that is where today brought news of a robbery at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, the State Art Collections that house the treasures of the Free State of Saxony. Specifically, two thieves broke into the Grünes Gewölbe—the Green Vault—which holds the rarest objects of all. Headlines understandably honed in on monetary values in the hundreds of millions or even billions, but these objects are, in fact, priceless. It is a horrifying crime against a rich cultural heritage in an historic city.
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Topics:
Holy Roman Empire,
Dresden,
DDR,
Gemäldegalerie Dresden,
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft,
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden,
East Germany,
Tashkent,
Paris Court of Appeal,
Goodnight Moon,
Anne Hawley,
House of Wettin,
Augustus the Strong,
Zwinger,
Frauenkirche,
Rezidenzschloss,
Fürstenzug,
Gottfried Semper,
Grünes Gewölbe,
Margaret Wise Brown,
Clement Hurd,
Residenzschloss,
Green Vault,
Thomas Crown affair,
Bond villain,
Marion Ackerman,
Michael Kretschmer,
Free State of Saxony,
Freistaat Sachsen,
Electorate of Saxony,
Thirty Years War,
Schatzkammer,
Wittelsbach,
GDR
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
