Sep 20, 2021

Waldmüller, Hitler and Collections Today

Hilter loved the art of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (15 January 1793 in Vienna – 23 August 1865 in Hinterbrühl, Austria). Waldmüller was a Nazi favourite. So much so that in examining the provenances of Waldmüller art acquired after 1933, one can reasonably wonder :

How likely is it that this Waldmüller did not pass through Nazi hands?

In this post we try to get a sense of what is known (and not known) about the provenance of artworks attributed to Waldmüller.

DATASET: Carnegie Museum of Art merged with Github provenances

DATASET: Provenance information gathered from the 2015 CMOA Github merged with information from the Carnegie Museum of Art online collections website

Description: This dataset contains publicly available information originally published online by the Carnegie Museum of Art which has been formatted by OAD as a CSV file for easy download and analysis with digital tools. Many of the artworks in the list also appear on the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal (NEPIP). For more recent updates or additional information concerning the artworks, please contact the Carnegie Museum of Art.

The CMOA collections dataset was published on Github by the Carnegie Museum of Art under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 licence (no copyright).

It has been enhanced with a NEW URL field in order to link to the CMOA museum website.

Date data retrieved: August 2021

AOD Version: 1.0

Format: CSV Click to DOWNLOAD CSV

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQwCWFQ13AB3EFsfXN84BxCMoWZ1keAT8-vxyTTlvEwZLQDuRqsxa5Ebrh0OdVOQfy79VdiB30Om6cm/pub?gid=1728520750&single=true&output=csv

Aug 31, 2021

Dataset: Problematic provenances of artworks in Dutch museums 31 AUG 2021

DATASET:

Artworks published on the Dutch site Museale Verwervingen Vanaf 1933 (Investigation into the provenance of museum collections in connection with the theft, confiscation and sale of objects under duress between 1933 and 1945.)

Description:

This dataset contains publicly available information originally published online by the Dutch authorities which has been formatted as a CSV file for easy download and analysis with digital tools. It includes 167 artworks selected by Dutch museums because they changed hands in Europe during the Nazi era (1933-1945) and have incomplete provenances. It is intended to facilitate research into Holocaust-era provenance for scholars, art historians, families, and data scientists.

Contents: 167 artworks selected for provenance research by museums in the Netherlands

note: The objects were selected by museums in the Netherlands many of which declined to participant. The selection is not complete.

Date Retrieval:

31 August 2021

Date Publication:

31 August 2021

Information in the Dataset:
RetrievalDate, Source Url, Artist, Title, Year, Technique, Inventorynumber, Category, Museum, Conclusion,Explanation, Provenance, Dimensions