Toledo Museum of Art Provenance Research
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Aug 25, 2022
DATASET: Toledo Museum of Art Provenance Archive
This art provenance dataset contains publicly available information originally published online by a cultural heritage institution which has been formatted as a CSV file for easy download and analysis with digital tools. It is intended to facilitate research into Holocaust-era provenance for scholars, art historians and families.
Aug 22, 2022
What happened to the Arkansas Art Center Database?
The Arkansas Art Center changed its name to the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts.
There used to be an online art collections database with a search function.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110201214103/http://www.aacwebkiosk.com/
Where is the database today?
https://arkmfa.org/art/collection/
Back when the museum was known as the Arkansas Art Center, it listed 447 artworks on the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal (NEPIP).
BLOGGER POST ID: 167711942511517822/8382952564275784305
Aug 6, 2022
Detroit Institute of Art _Archived provenance dataset 2015
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| Madonna and Child DIA inv 67.119 |
DIA provenance listings as they appeared on October 19, 2015
Provenance researchers know that the ownership history of artworks has a tendency to change over time. Snapshots of provenance texts published by a cultural heritage institution at a specific point in time are valuable sources of information not only about the history of the artworks but also about the history of the museum.
The list below was originally published by the Detroit Institute of Art on its public website in its provenance listings ("http://www.dia.org/art/provenance-listings.aspx").
This version dates from 2015.
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for original file see:
https://archive.ph/uISaz#selection-929.1-934.0
For recent versions of the provenance, please consult the website of the Detroit Institute of Art
Aug 5, 2022
Correspondence regarding looted works of art in Switzerland 1945-6 UK Archives
Interesting sources available in the UK Archives for Nazi looted art.
FO 371/45771/21
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13370847
Registry Number: UE 6318/123/77.
Jun 28, 2022
Derain in the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal
Numerous artworks by André Derain have been listed by American museums on NEPIP, the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal
This post contains a list of NEPIP artworks by Derain with the title, accession number and museum collection.
Jun 26, 2022
Modern art seized by Nazis and sold through Curt Valentin: Where are they today?
Nazi Looted Art Research, focus on Curt Valentin and the sale of modern art, classified by Nazis as "Degenerate" and seized for resale to finance the Nazi war effort
Location of "Degenerate Art" seized by Nazis and sold by Curt Valentin (where it it known)
raw data source: Beschlagnahmeinventar "Entartete Kunst", "Degenerate Art" Research Center, FU Berlin; filtered for "Curt Valentin" and Location not blank or "Unbekannt"
See also: Buchholz and Valentin in Provenance Texts in American Museums
Jun 24, 2022
Henri Matisse The Blue Window
Henri Matisse
The Blue Window
Issy-les-Moulineaux, summer 1913
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Credit
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Object number
273.1939
https://web.archive.org/web/20150805185104/https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79350EK no. 3688: Stillleben, blaues Zimmer. One of 139 paintings removed from the Folkwang Essen in July and August 1937 (exh. cat. Folkwang 2010, p. 348). [4] Included in the exhibition Art in Our Time, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 10- September 30, 1939 (no. 93).
Jun 21, 2022
Franz Marc Foxes Kurt and Else Grawi vs. Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf Recommendation decided on February 10, 2021
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| Franz Marc, The Foxes (1913) Wikimedia Commons |
Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish property Office: Seydelstr. 18, 10117 Berlin
Recommendation of the Advisory Commission in the case of the heirs of Kurt and Else Grawi vs. Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
May 24, 2022
Walter Bareiss in provenances of European artworks in American museums
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| The Bend in the Road by Cézanne, Exhibited at the Bignou Gallery in New York in 1940* |
Walter Bareiss was, along with Baron Leon Lambert, Eugene Victor Thaw, David Carritt, Count Christian zu Salm-Reifferscheidt, Philippe R. Stoclet, Count Artur Strachwitz, Heinz Berggruen and Baron Alexis de Rede, on the board of the art trading syndicate Artemis S.A.
In this series of posts, we look at artworks owned by members of the Artemis syndicate.
May 21, 2022
Galerie Bing in Provenances of Artworks in UK Spoliation reports, Museums and Auctions
Are the provenances clear and solid for the Nazi years 1933-1945?
Why or why not?
May 20, 2022
Tooth in Provenance: UK Collections Trust Spoliation Reports and Getty Public Collections
The name "Authur Tooth" appears frequently in provenances with gaps for the Nazi era.
This post lists the search results for "Tooth" in the UK Spoliation Reports published by the Collections Trust
May 11, 2022
Tracking looted art by examining the names in between. Example: MEISSNER
In this post, we look in art provenances that contain Meissner, a name that has appeared in connexion with Nazi-looted art.
Apr 30, 2022
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.
Apr 27, 2022
Gurlitt Status: source German Lost Art Foundation website April 27 2022
What are the results of a decade of provenance research into the origins of the stash of artworks found in the home of Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of Hitler's art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt?
The German Lost Art Foundation publishes online a selection color coded Green, Yellow or Red from the "Provenienzrecherche Gurlitt".
At present, only four are coded RED. A whopping 615 are coded YELLOW. And 28 have received the GREEN code. As for the artworks that have not been coded, there is a note:
After the research reports on works originally suspected of Nazi looting have successfully undergone an expert review, they are approved by the board of the project sponsor. The final note summarizes the key data and research findings on the work and completes the Object Record Excpert (ORE). Then the investigated artwork is assigned to one of the categories of the agreement. Works that are classified as so-called "Degenerate Art" with a clearly unencumbered origin and the family collection* do not undergo a review and therefore do not receive a final note.
*The family holdings are works that are attributed to the Gurlitt family because they were either created after 1945, were created by family members, or can be directly attributed because of personal dedications
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Below are the artworks in each color category:
Apr 23, 2022
Forgery and false provenances
False provenances are needed to insert art forgeries into the historical record.
Where there is forgery there is false provenance.
Dealers who sell forgeries are great sources of false provenances. A special kind of writing is involved in the creation of false provenances. A talent for making things that are not true seem at least plausible.
Question: Do dealers of forgeries also sell looted art?
Some, like Knoedler, are known to have sold both at one time or another. Knoedler's prestige and power enables it to insert lies into the historical record without being challenged for a very long time.
What about the others? How to find out?
Apr 8, 2022
Did the Musée de l'Orangerie make a spelling error in the name of a Holocaust victim in the provenance of this Cézanne?
Max Silberberg was a Jewish art collector in Breslau murdered by the Nazis.
Is he the same person as "Silbergerg" in the provenance text of "Fruits, serviette et boîte à lait" by Paul Cézanne?
Apr 3, 2022
Where is the Duchess of Courland, gifted by Red Flag Zacharie Birtschanky to LACMA in 1946?
Half-length Portrait of the Duchess of Courland
1785
Angelica Kauffmann
Switzerland
1741–1807
Oil on canvas, 30 ¼ x 25 in. (76.85 x 63.5 cm), signed and dated "Angelica Kauffmann Pinx. Romae 1785," Gift of Zacharie Birtschansky, 46.33.1.
Apr 1, 2022
ALIU Red Flag List of Names in Italian (with DeepL)
This post publishes in Italian the Art Looting Investigation Red Flag List of Names which was originally written in English in 1945-6.
(Translated from English into Italian by Deepl)
OSS ALIU Art saccheggio lista di nomi con bandiera rossa tradotta in italiano
(update in progress)
Titolo
OSS (USS Office of Strategic Services) Art Looting Intelligence Unit (ALIU) Reports 1945-1946 e ALIU Red Flag Names List and Index
https://www.lootedart.com/MVI3RM469661
Descrizione
Nel 1944 il governo degli Stati Uniti creò un'unità speciale di intelligence che si occupava di arte saccheggiata, formata e amministrata dall'OSS. Nel corso del 1945 e 1946, questa unità, chiamata Art Looting Intelligence Unit (ALIU), produsse 16 rapporti stampati.
Un indice dei nomi che elenca tutti gli individui, i commercianti e le agenzie che appaiono in uno di questi rapporti è disponibile qui. L'indice dei nomi può anche essere cercato su questo sito cliccando sul pulsante "Cerca" e digitando un nome nella casella di ricerca delle informazioni.
I NOMI DELLE BANDIERE ROSSE E I DETTAGLI DELLE LORO ATTIVITÀ IN TEMPO DI GUERRA SONO ANCHE RIPORTATI IN FONDO A QUESTO DOCUMENTO, ORGANIZZATI IN ORDINE ALFABETICO PER PAESE DI ATTIVITÀ.
I rapporti ALIU sono di tre tipi:
Mar 30, 2022
Biographies of people involved in the Nazi-looted art trade formerly published on Lostart whose urls no longer seem to work.
The German Lost Art Foundation published online the biographies of "Beteiligte Privatpersonen und Körperschaftern am NS-Kulturegutraub" which translates to "Private individuals and corporate bodies involved in the NS cultural property theft".
The content below has since disappeared from the internet. A few entries can now be found in the internet archive or, in modified form, on Proveana. Others appear to be lost.
Mar 28, 2022
Benno Geiger in Spoliation Reports UK Collections Trust
Spoliation Reports from UK Museum published by the Collections Trust
Search for Benno Geiger
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