Nazi-looted art provenance research: names to verify in provenance texts of art museums

Names of Concern to verify in Art Provenances for European artworks created before 1945 and acquired after 1932, contains persons and organisations

(Wikidata Queries run January 25, 2025)

Merges persons of concern and organisations of concern in Nazi looted art and includes, where available Status,  GND, VIAF, Proveana and LCCN identifiers as well as alternate spellings for entity matching in provenance texts.

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Url of Public Google Sheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTuf7QIW4T15_5YJURSlvhZalwsdVrCNHiv5Iq4PaY-AepMw-rovx4aw9cleEI8S3NPInv4uMk9S5XD/pub?gid=103406480&single=true&output=csv

Description: 

The dataset contains 745 entries and 10 columns, with the following details:

1. Columns Overview:

   • item: Contains Wikidata URIs for the entities.
   • itemLabel: Labels or names of the entities.
   • itemDescription: Descriptions of the entities.
   • status: Provides information on the entity's status (e.g., related to Holocaust restitution cases or flagged as red flags).
   • altNames: Alternative names for the entities; this column has some missing values (449 non-null out of 745).
   • GND: German National Library identifiers; partially populated (423 non-null).
   • Proveana: Proveana-related identifiers; partially populated (132 non-null).
   • VIAF: Virtual International Authority File identifiers; partially populated (488 non-null).
   • LCCN: Library of Congress Control Numbers; partially populated (302 non-null).
   • RunDate: The date when the data was run/compiled.