Tracking Nazi-looted art dealers: Restitutions as data

What can we learn by analyzing the provenances of artworks which have been restituted to the heirs of Jewish art collectors persecuted by the Nazis?

Patterns. Repetition. Familiar faces. 

Those art dealers who just keep "popping up".

In this post we see what we can learn from the provenance published by auctions houses which have been authorized to sell previously looted art AFTER it has been restituted to the families.

Provenance in the Art Museum: Oberlin Allen Memorial Art Museum

The Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) has published thirty artworks on the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal (NEPIP).

In this post, we see what we can learn about the history of these artworks using modern digital art history tools.