German Museums that do NOT publish Nazi-era provenance online as of March 23 2022

According to our tests, the following German museums are rated "F" (FAIL) for transparency concerning the ownership history of artworks in the Nazi-period 1933-1945.

This means that a visitor to the museum's online collections website cannot see where a painting was or who owned it during the Nazi period.

(Please help us to update this list as museum websites evolve.)

• Neue Pinakothek in Munich

There is a field "Herkunft". However it does not give the ownership history. It only states who sold, gave or loaned it to the museum. There is no link to or mention of Lostart, Linz or Munich Collecting point information. 

• Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen

There is no ownership history. There is no link to or mention of Lostart, Linz or Munich Collecting point information. 

 

• Lenbachhaus

There is a field "Zugang". However it does not give the ownership history. It only states who sold, gave or loaned it to the museum.  There is no link to or mention of Lostart, Linz or Munich Collecting point information. 

WALLRAF-RICHARTZ-MUSEUM & FONDATION CORBOUD

No real online collections database, no provenance on the Wallraf-Richartz website - not even for iconic works like Asparagus (about whose Nazi-era provenance artist Hans Haacke famously did an entire exhibition). To find information about the history of artworks one must go to LostArt.de or plunge into Immunity from Seizure documents. And yet, provenance research projects have been announced with great fanfare. But whatever the results are, they do not appear to be on the website.

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DATASET: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Provenance Research Project

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts maintains an "up-to-date register of all works with incomplete provenance records for the years 1933 to 1945" in order to facilitate provenance research.

We have put the information into an easy to use file for digital analysis.

VIEW MBAM artworks with incomplete provenances 1933-1945 HERE.

DOWNLOAD CSV HERE.

Artworks whose provenance records are incomplete for the years 1933 to 1945.

Getty Provenance Index Utrillo

 Records from the Getty Provenance Index for the artist Maurice UTRILLO

The database on the unrecovered works of art looted during the Second World War in Belgium

 NEW DATABASE ANNOUNCED: Looted Art WWII Belgium

"Information on the works of art on this website is freely accessible."

"The website contains data collected by the  Economic Recovery Service and published by the FPS Economy. 

The FPS Economy cannot be held responsible for the completeness or correctness of the published data. 

No rights can be derived from the published data."

link: https://lootedart.belgium.be/en/search

Property looted from Jews in Vienna: Unser Wien MAP

http://maps.tacticalspace.org/unserwien/map.html

Behind every orange dot, property looted from Jews after the Nazi Anschluss of 1938

Map by Tactical Space, based on the inventory of stolen property under the Nazis, in the study by Stephan Templ, Unser Wien.accessed January 7, 2022

http://maps.tacticalspace.org/unserwien/map.html

http://maps.tacticalspace.org/unserwien/

Unser Wien Map

Unser Wien (Our Vienna) is a book co-authored by Stephan Templ and Tina Walzer that details how hundreds of Jewish businesses in Vienna were seized by the Nazis and never given back.

Continue to the map

Stephan Templ is an Austrian citizen, author, and journalist who has been jailed by Austria because of a restitution claim he made on behalf of his mother for Nazi-looted property.

This project is a translation of the addresses listed in the book as a digital map. This map is part of the Open Maps project. Credit for location entry and translation goes to Melanie Lyn. Technical implementation by Josh Harle.