The Munich Connection

 Research Question: How did Nazi plunder get from a cabal of looted art dealers in Munich to the art museums of the United States of America?

Which names have replaced theirs in the provenance texts?

Where to find provenance information about Gurlitt items

Even today, six years after more than one thousand artworks were found in Munich in the possession of Cornelius Gurlitt, son of one of Hitler's official art dealers, Hildebrand Gurlitt, remarkably little light has been shed.

Several sites list artworks from the Gurlitt "collection". However it is not always easy to obtain a file that contains all the items with their provenance. Lootedart.com published a table in 2014 (see below), but since then the information has been updated.

For Holocaust and art provenance researchers who need Gurlitt provenance data in tabular form, here is a dataset in a public google sheet and as a CSV.

Google Sheet: Gurlitt provenance data (unites public data originally published by the Lostart Datenbank and lootedart.com) 

CSV: Gurlitt provenances CSV

(Holocaust research dataset published under Creative Commons for reuse)


Below are the sources for the dataset as well as additional sites that provide information about artworks found in Gurlitt's possession.

1. Lootedart.com Gurlitt Case :

17 January 2014: Table of 458 Gurlitt Works of Art posted on www.lostart.de

458 artworks are posted in a table that can be easily copied. The provenance is not in the table but can be reached via a link to the internet archive. This link no longer works but one can extract the original lostart.de link within the lootedart link.  

 2. Lostart Datenbank: 

One can search on Gurlitt, and consult each record individually

http://www.lostart.de/Webs/DE/LostArt/Service/GlobalSuche/ServiceSuche.html;jsessionid=C10BF326E6A3628D40FF28E9366A98BB.m0?nn=4084&resourceId=33792&input_=4084&pageLocale=de&templateQueryString=gurlitt&suche_typ=Global&submit=Suchen

Lost Art-Datenbank:

• 1.019 Ergebnisse im Bereich "Such- und Fundmeldungen"

Modul "Provenienzrecherche":

• 4 Ergebnisse im Bereich "Kunst- und Kulturgutauktionen 1933-1945"

3. Freie Universitäte Berlin Beschlagnahmeinventar "Entartete Kunst"

http://emuseum.campus.fu-berlin.de/eMuseumPlus

One can search on Gurlitt and consult records one by one.

4. Victoria and Albert Museum digitized 'Entartete Kunst'Inventory at the V&A 

See Lootedart.com at https://www.lootedart.com/QH3E7U275681

Download the Entartete Kunst inventory

Entartete Kunst inventory, volume 1 (PDF file, 32.8 MB)

Entartete Kunst inventory, volume 2 (PDF file, 31 MB)

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Kunstmuseum Bern: Nachlass Gurlitt – Salzburger Kunstfund:

  

http://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch/admin/data/hosts/kmb/files/page_editorial_paragraph_file/file_en/1021/141127_gurlitt_salzburg.pdf?lm=1417099001