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?category a skos:Concept .
?category skos:prefLabel ?label .
FILTER (CONTAINS(?label, "Jewish emigrant"))
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Dec 18, 2022
2000+ Jewish emigrants in Wikipedia: DBpedia Sparql query for categories containing the words "Jewish Emigrants"
PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>
SELECT ?person ?category WHERE {
?category a skos:Concept .
?category skos:prefLabel ?label .
FILTER (CONTAINS(?label, "Jewish emigrant"))
?person dct:subject ?category.
}
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Dec 14, 2022
Art Provenance Texts as Data: Restitution Histories in Auction Catalogs
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| Adolph Menzel, restituted to the heirs of Walter Westfeld |
Below is a selection of several provenances published online by Sotheby's. Some of the provenance texts indicate that artworks put up for auction had previously been restituted to the families of persecuted collectors.
For the artworks that have been restituted, the provenances - before the restitution - offer clues to how the resale market for Nazi-looted art worked. Through which hands did the artworks pass? Do any names recur?
Dec 12, 2022
Provenance at American university art museums
Morning on the Seine, Giverny (Matinée sur la Seine)
MONET AC 1966.48
(no provenance)
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=AC+1966.48
Part of the series on museum websites, provenance and transparency:
this post looks at the availability of provenance information on artworks at:
- Smith College Museum of Art (172 artworks on NEPIP)
- Mead Art Museum at Amherst College (18 artworks on NEPIP)
- Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (80 artworks on NEPIP)
- University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst
- Historic Deerfield and the Hampshire College Art Gallery
DATABASE search https://museums.fivecolleges.edu
Explore the museum's full collection through the Five College Collections Database, which combines SCMA’s holdings with the collections of the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst, Historic Deerfield and the Hampshire College Art Gallery.
Provenance Evaluation: POOR
This evaluation was conducted by live tests on December 5, 2022. Please address corrections or any new information to OAD.
The museums appear to publish Credit Line but not provenance
Dec 7, 2022
How to use information in the provenance texts of Nazi looted art that has been restituted to find other Nazi-looted artworks
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| This Nazi-looted painting was restituted in 2016. https://www.lostart.de/de/Verlust/526702 |
Often, when a painting is restituted, it is the conclusion of a long and arduous process of archival research to establish the itinerary of the painting and the different actors involved in its looting (or sale, or transfer, or translocation).
What happens if we take the NAMES that appear in the provenance AFTER an artwork has left the possession of the persecuted Jewish owner and plug them in to some powerful digital tools to check other provenance texts for their presence?
Could this application of digital tools provide clues that lead to other Nazi-looted artworks?
Dec 1, 2022
Walter Hugelshofer in provenances (update ongoing)
In this post, we begin to gather information about Walter Hugelshofer, a Swiss art historian.
(above: Saint Florian at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art,
1. Hugelshofer mentioned in relation to selected artworks in US museums
2. Hugelshofer mentioned in relation to auctions
3. Hugelshofer mentioned in the Kleinberger archives
4. Hugelshofer mentioned in association with Julius Böhler archives
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