East Wing White House

 

Where are all the paintings, furniture, rugs, decorative objects and other artworks and cultural heritage objects that were in the East Wing before Trump illegally destroyed it?

Are the objects inventoried with photos in a database?

Were they removed and stored elsewhere? 

(Which moving companies, which art curators were involved? How did the move take place in secrecy?)

Were they stolen, destroyed, placed in a warehouse, a museum?

How many cultural heritage objects were in the East Wing before the demolition?

Tracking displacement, loot and destruction of artworks and other heritage objects is now crucial in the United States of America.

https://archives.whitehousehistory.org/fotoweb/archives/5017-Digital-Archives/?25=White%20House%20Collection

A White House Historical Association exists. It has a website:

https://archives.whitehousehistory.org/fotoweb/archives/5017-Digital-Archives/?txnm=56817ff37e65b58c37feb96d

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EVENT: Provenance and Restitution with Shared Knowledge Graphs September 15

 *** The video is now up and can be watched on Youtube and on the site of the German Lost Art Foundation!!

On September 15, the German Lost Art Foundation has graciously invited me to give a talk on Provenance and Restitution in their series "Kolloquium Provenienzforschung".

https://kulturgutverluste.de/termine/kolloquium-provenienzforschung-shared-knowledge-graphs-tool-recovering

The topic is “Shared knowledge graphs as a tool in recovering looted cultural heritage and the histories of marginalized people“. 

I hope the information provided will be helpful to cultural heritage professionals, provenance researchers, claimants, Holocaust scholars, art crime experts, museum and art market people.

(Do not let the words "knowledge graph" scare you. In this talk, I’ll show how we can connect information—people, places, artworks, events—into a kind of map of relationships. Think of it as a network of stories and connections. We can use this to retrieve lost information and to explore hidden networks over long periods of time, which is very useful for Nazi-looted art as well as other kinds of stolen or disappeared cultural heritage.) 

The event will take place at the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste, Außenstelle Berlin, Seydelstraße 18, 10117 Berlin. 

It is also possible to join the event via Webex. (Register by Sep 12)

Registrations to:
German Lost Art Foundation
Heinrich Natho
Humboldtstr. 12 | 39112 Magdeburg
veranstaltungen@kulturgutverluste.de

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See complete announcement below

Alsdorf in provenances of artworks in the Chicago Art Institute

James and Marilynn Alsdorf contributed many valuable artworks to the Art Institute of Chicago.

The table below shows provenance texts as published on AIC's website in August 2024. 

Provenance gaps of over a thousand years are not uncommon.

Reportedly found in - a sampling of interesting provenances

What does "reportedly found in" mean when it appears in a provenance text for an artworks or antiquity?

Below are a few sample texts.

(Texts published by museums are indicated by color.)

Holocaust victims and refugees in art provenances

Museums and auction houses rarely mention that a name in a provenance of an artwork corresponds to a person who was robbed and murdered by the Nazis or a Jewish refugee fleeing to escape the Holocaust.

This Wikidata Sparql query displays a few of the art collector whose names are absolutely to be considered red flags in provenances because they either died in the Holocaust or were forced to flee to survive.

Wikidata query run 18 May 2024: Short link: https://w.wiki/A7pr

Table: Art Collectors and Dealers who died in the Holocaust or were forced to flee

Koutoulakis in provenances

Where do artworks that passed through notorious looted antiquities trafficker Nicolas Koutoulakis pop up?

Dataset with Koutoulakis-linked items in the:

• J. Paul Getty Museum
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Museum of Fine Art Boston
• and others

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSe2WxRJsHZnL51JGH1IFro3aD4HEvApAS5s2eThoj19Zpjkm-QcEKWLQ9k8tRbXjKiMDnn9YSW7c5P/pub?gid=2017851174&single=true&output=csv