Sep 30, 2021
Sep 24, 2021
Pinakothek Munich: artworks with no provenance transferred from the German state
Where to find the provenance of artworks held at the Pinakothek in Bavaria, Germany?
Not, it seems, on the Pinakothek website.
Frequently, the information provided in the Origin or Herkunft field limits itself to the mention: "on loan" or "transferred from the German state".
But there is no link or reference to any further information.
Yet we know that many looted artworks returned to Germany after the war and then distributed to museums "on loan" or as "transfers").
How to verify whether or not an artwork held at the Pinakothek is referenced in the LostArt.de database, the DHM Munich or Linz databases?
To find out, we will look at a selection of artworks at the Pinakothek, many of which are "on loan" or transferred from State possession.
See file here
(please note: The dataset contains only a few hundred artworks out of the more than 8000 artworks created before 1940 that contain the word "Überweisung")
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.
Sep 2, 2021
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
Aug 31, 2021
Dataset: Problematic provenances of artworks in Dutch museums 31 AUG 2021
RetrievalDate, Source Url, Artist, Title, Year, Technique, Inventorynumber, Category, Museum, Conclusion,Explanation, Provenance, Dimensions