DATABASE: Download the Entartete Kunst inventory

"The V&A holds the only known copy of a complete inventory of 'Entartete Kunst' confiscated by the Nazi regime from public institutions in Germany, mostly during 1937 and 1938. The list of more than 16,000 artworks was produced by the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda) in 1942 or thereabouts. It seems that the inventory was compiled as a final record, after the sales and disposals of the confiscated art had been completed in the summer of 1941. The inventory’s two typescript volumes provide crucial information about the provenance, exhibition history and fate of each artwork.

Download the Entartete Kunst inventory
(It's presented in two separate files:)

http://www.vam.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/240167/Entartete_Kunst_Vol1.pdf

http://www.vam.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/240168/Entartete_Kunst_Vol2.pdf

View a few pages from the Degenerate Art Inventory

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see also:

Hermann Göring
http://wikidata.dbpedia.org/page/Q47906

Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art Provenance Information AccessTest

How accessible is provenance information on museum websites?

In this Video ArtDataTests looks at NEPIP and FRED JONES JR MUSEUM OF ART to see whether the provenance for items listed on the Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal for the Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art is accessible.

Test script
1. Go to the Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal (NEPIP), search for Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art
2. Test link to museum (ERROR)
3. View artworks listed in NEPIP for the Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art
4. Scroll through the list to find an artwork with an artist other than "Anonymous", click on Maurice de Vlaminck 
5. Click on "more information" to view Accession Number
6. Copy Accession Number
7. Go to Google, enter Search Collections Fred Jones
8. Click on Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art site
9. Look for Collections Search
10. In the absence of a Collections Search function, click on European Art and scroll down list until Vlaminck found (note that the title displayed is not the same as in NEPIP)
11. Click on painting and view item record to verify whether the provenance is visible (It is not. Neither is the accession number)
12. Click on next Vlaminck
Video: https://youtu.be/K1xRjv707E4

Test Result: No search on provenance information. No display of provenance information.