A tiny sub-selection of Lost Art objects have been found and restituted.
The provenance history of these artworks -- especially during the period between the loss and the restitution -- shed light on looted art market laundering networks.
DATASET DESCRIPTION: This dataset contains restituted artworks listed on the German Lost Art Foundation that mention selected major Nazi-era auction houses in any capacity, anywhere in the record. (This means that some of the auctions occurred before the Nazi era.)
It is a deliberately small and targeted dataset for maximum linking potential to major data aggregators, notably the Getty Provenance Index, the Heidelberg Sales catalogs, Proveana, Wikidata, and (for Dutch art), RKD and well as to (where relevant) museum identifiers.
The purpose is to facilitate the linking of detailed data concerning the artworks, their owners, the intermediaries, the auction houses and the claims process.
Every name and post 1932 auction event in this dataset should be properly referenced and linked to major databases.
For reference use by provenance researchers, linked data experts, authority file managers, and museum people. (A couple of auctions are highlighted.)
Auction houses in the DATASET selection of restituted items:
- Dorotheum
- Lempertz
- Lepke
- Helbing
- Galerie Fischer
