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Showing posts with label cultural heritage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cultural heritage. Show all posts
Aug 30, 2024

Alsdorf in provenances of artworks in the Chicago Art Institute

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James and Marilynn Alsdorf contributed many valuable artworks to the Art Institute of Chicago. The table below shows provenance texts as pub...
May 31, 2024

Reportedly found in - a sampling of interesting provenances

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What does "reportedly found in" mean when it appears in a provenance text for an artworks or antiquity? Below are a few sample tex...
May 19, 2024

Holocaust victims and refugees in art provenances

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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 t...
Apr 26, 2024

Koutoulakis in provenances

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Where do artworks that passed through notorious looted antiquities trafficker Nicolas Koutoulakis pop up? Dataset with Koutoulakis-linked it...
Mar 23, 2022

German Museums that do NOT publish Nazi-era provenance online as of March 23 2022

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According to our tests, the following German museums are rated "F" (FAIL) for transparency concerning the ownership history of ar...
May 30, 2021

CIR 4 LINZ S. Lane Faison describes Hitler's Linz museum as "a monument to Safe Art"

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From June 1945 until the spring of 1946, Faison, Plaut, and Rousseau detained and interrogated hundreds of Nazi officials and collaborators ...
Mar 28, 2021

"The painting was bought at the auction in 1940 by a Dutch man, S.B.S. Slijper"

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see:  Heirs Sue for Return of a Kandinsky, Saying It Was Looted by Nazis, NYT,    https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=SBYXH2908751 Who was ...
Jul 18, 2020

Nazi looting organisations: the so-called KUNSTSCHUTZ in the Art Looting Investigation Red Flag Names

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Country 1946 OSS ALIU LIST OF RED FLAG NAMES Contains GERMANY Brunner, Dr. Member of Kunstschutz, Brussels. Kunstschutz GERMANY Bun...