See DATASET with provenances HERE
In "The Munich Connection" we listed artworks that American museums published on the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal whose provenance contained the word "Munich".
How to go from there to a map of the WWII and postwar art dealing networks? There is a lot of data and it is held in different places for different purposes. How not to get lost in it all?
In this day of LLMs, it seemed reasonable to see if ChatGPT had any advice.
Prompt:
You are an art detective. You know the names of ten dealers based in Munich who were guilty of trading in Nazi looted art. What you’d like to find out is the names of the intermediaries they used postwar to launder looted artworks and sell them to American museums. You can obtain provenance from museums, from looted art databases and from restitution cases. You have access to a knowledge graph that can tell you who people are. Please suggest a plan.
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| This Nazi-looted painting was restituted in 2016. https://www.lostart.de/de/Verlust/526702 |
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https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/8168334/
https://w.wiki/4a4s
#Places of Death or Birth (with coordinates long and lat) for Art historians dealers collectors museum directors restorers
SELECT DISTINCT ?place ?placeLabel ?coord ?lat ?long
WHERE
{
{?item wdt:P106 wd:Q1792450} UNION {?item wdt:P106 wd:Q173950} UNION {?item wdt:P106 wd:Q10732476} UNION {?item wdt:P106 wd:Q674426} UNION {?item wdt:P106 wd:Q22132694} UNION {?item wdt:P106 wd:Q2145981}
?item (wdt:P20|wdt:P19) ?place.
?place wdt:P625 ?coord.
?place p:P625 ?statement.
?statement psv:P625 ?coordinate_node .
?coordinate_node wikibase:geoLatitude ?lat .
?coordinate_node wikibase:geoLongitude ?long .
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". } # Helps get the label in your language, if not, then en language
}DATASET: Provenance information gathered from the 2015 CMOA Github merged with information from the Carnegie Museum of Art online collections website
Description: This dataset contains publicly available information originally published online by the Carnegie Museum of Art which has been formatted by OAD as a CSV file for easy download and analysis with digital tools. Many of the artworks in the list also appear on the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal (NEPIP). For more recent updates or additional information concerning the artworks, please contact the Carnegie Museum of Art.
The CMOA collections dataset was published on Github by the Carnegie Museum of Art under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 licence (no copyright).
It has been enhanced with a NEW URL field in order to link to the CMOA museum website.
Date data retrieved: August 2021
AOD Version: 1.0
Format: CSV Click to DOWNLOAD CSV
Work in progress. Feedback welcome.
The user can analyse provenances for any names or words that seem interesting.
The list below contains the last names of art restorers who were investigated by the OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit for their role in the art market for Nazi-looted art.
There are many potential sources and lists.
In this post, we look an official Austrian report from 2008 that contains names of Austrian Jewish collectors whose art collections were plundered by the Nazis.
Mrs Kurt Riezler (née Käthe Liebermann, daughter of Max Liebermann) was previously mis-identified as Liezler
Why does it matter? Because her family was persecuted by the Nazis and she herself was a refugee.
EDOUARD MANET
