2021-03-19 08:48
Mrs Kurt Riezler (née Käthe Liebermann, daughter of Max Liebermann) was previously mis-identified as LiezlerEDOUARD MANETThe Melon, c. 1880 Not on ViewMediumoil on canv… Read More
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Open Art Data aims to help art historians and provenance researchers with directories, resources, and tools for WWII Era and Nazi looted art
2021-03-13 05:51
To verify art collections for Nazi looted art, it is useful to have the names of the people whose collections were stolen by Nazis or lost through forced sales due to Nazi persecution… Read More
2021-03-08 09:34
Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish propertyOffice: German Lost Art Foundation, Humboldtstraße 12, 39… Read More
2021-03-08 08:37
Advisory Commissionon the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish propertyOffice: Seydelstr. 18, 10117 BerlinRecommendation of the Advisor… Read More
2021-03-08 08:37
Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish propertyRecommendation of the Advisory Commission in the case of&nb&hell…Read More
2021-03-08 08:37
Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result of National Socialist persecution, especially Jewish propertyOffice: Seydelstraße 18, 10117 Ber… Read More
2021-03-08 05:06
Advisory Commissionon the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish propertyOffice: Seydelstr. 18, 10117 BerlinRecommendation of the Advisory Comm… Read More
2021-03-07 05:12
"...the Grünbaum heirs contend that Mr. Kornfeld’s account is a fiction and that the documents are forgeries. They say it is suspicious that he did not identify Ms. Lukacs-Herzl a… Read More
2021-03-06 04:10
JEWISH DIGITAL CULTURALRECOVERY PROJECT FOUNDATION https://jdcrp.org/foundation/The JDCRP Foundation, “Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project Stiftung”, headquartered in B… Read More
2021-03-05 07:10
Reactions to claims for Nazi-looted art, forced sales and duress sales vary.Some museums or private collectors, when they learn that a prized artwork belonged to an art collector who was plu… Read More
2021-02-22 13:06
Abkürzungen/Gesetze und Recht (← Links | bearbeiten)Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (← Links | bearbeiten)… Read More
2021-02-10 03:29
Students of art history, test your sleuthing skills! Can you spot what these artworks might have in common? Hint: pay attention to the years 1932-1945.... (Claude Monet, French, 1840&n&hell…Read More
2021-02-09 03:13
Portrait of Paul Westheim by Otto Dix (Artnet)http://www.artnet.com/artists/otto-dix/paul-westheim-DDrf5Lw5D1e1_JE3tyrF0Q2Robbed twice. The Parisian estate of the art critic Paul Westheim in… Read More
2021-02-06 05:41
The following provenance information is copied from the website of the Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945. It has been placed in table form for easier read… Read More
2021-02-02 06:43
This post aims to collect, little by little, published provenances that have been proven to be false, and, where possible, to specify their authors and publishers.Why try to identify lies in… Read More
2021-01-26 19:27
Question for art provenance researchers. How many of these artworks display gaps in the provenance for the years 1933-1945?Which artworks, if any, appear to have the most prob… Read More
2021-01-26 04:40
provenance [Unknown private collection, Nice]Before 1928, Galerie Percier, Paris.By February 1949, Paul Chadourne & Colle, Paris.https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80026We though… Read More
2021-01-23 08:32
Notable People who have Wikipedia pages in German but not in English and who played an important role in Holocaust history among other things (update ongoing):Dav. Friedman(n) a.k.a. David F… Read More
2020-12-31 18:43
Amalie Zuckerkandl was at the height of her beauty when Gustav Klimt begin this (unfinished) portrait of her in 1917-8. A member of the Viennese Zuckerkandl family, Amalie was murdered in th… Read More
2020-12-15 11:33
Network described in the 1946 OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit Final Report Red Flag List of Names: Ali (Allen) Loebl and Bruno Lohsehttps://www.lootedart.com/MVI3RM469661-----It was… Read More
2020-12-13 10:20
This list of publications with resources for provenance research assembled by Esther Tisa Francini of the Museum Rietberg looks interesting so for those interested we are reproducing it… Read More
2020-11-16 11:37
Above: Some students of Paul Sachs and F. Lane Faison, along with a glimpse of some of the institutions where they studied or worked. (Wikidata Query November 16, 2020). (The grap… Read More
2020-11-14 04:10
In October of 2019 the following announcement appeared in German: Presentation on November 4, 2019 in the DHM October 10, 2019 The first volume of the series "Provenire" - publishe… Read More
2020-11-07 08:10
2020-10-29 08:03
As of October 28, 2020 the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal (NEPIP) lists 29859 objects from 179 participating museums.US Map of (most) Museums listed on the Nazi Era Provenance Internet… Read More
2020-09-22 10:13
Das Soldatenbad by Kirchner is one of the many paintings Jewish art dealer Alfred Flechtheim lost due to Nazi persecution which targeted him and forced the Aryanization of his art gallery in… Read More
2020-09-11 14:12
DATASET: Artworks published on NEPIP from participating museums (except the National Gallery of Art, published separately)Description: This dataset contains publicly available… Read More
2020-09-03 14:53
Who was César Mange de Hauke (1900-1965)?What was the role of this French art dealer in bringing European artworks to America?Which artists did he handle?Who were his clients?Why did… Read More
2020-08-27 15:46
Frederick Mont (1894-1994) was an art dealer who sold artworks to dozens of major art museums and art collectors.Mont, originally named Fritz Mondschein, owned the Sanct Lucas Gallery. … Read More
2020-08-20 06:20
The scale of deceptive practices by art market professionals concerning Holocaust-related looted art is under-appreciated.The web of complicity is tough to break through, and it is rather de… Read More
2020-07-21 10:54
https://www.fold3.com/image/270109050"Geiger, Benno. Venice, Botto Nuevo. Art historian-dealer of Baltic origin. Friend of Kieslinger and acted as guide for Muehlmann and Kieslinger during t… Read More
2020-07-18 05:16
Country1946 OSS ALIU LIST OF RED FLAG NAMESContainsGERMANYBrunner, Dr. Member of Kunstschutz, Brussels.KunstschutzGERMANYBunjes, Dr Hermann. Fell, near Trier. Served during the occupation of… Read More
2020-07-16 06:05
False provenance is a feature of Nazi looted art. How to track multiple versions of provenance texts over time and identify, classify and analyse "errors"? We begin by listing some of t… Read More
2020-07-11 08:16
The Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Spoliation has published a new website.The TED-CIVS database lists the paintings and drawings (TED = tableau et dessin) mentioned in fi… Read More
2020-07-10 04:00
How are Italian art museums doing on Nazi-era and Colonial-era provenance? Which museums do -- and which museums do not -- publish online provenance texts for their art collections?&nbs&hell…Read More
2020-06-27 07:07
Provenance of Paintings Record 10091FRAGONARD, JEAN HONORÉThe Good MotherBoston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts44.777oval on canvasby ca. 1789 -Pressigny, De[counsellor general to the… Read More
2020-06-05 08:07
Download Provenance Texts Dataset: CSV Text Analysis Challenge: Detect Looted Art.Help Automate Analysis, Flagging and Ranking of Museum Art Provenance Texts by the Probability of… Read More
2020-06-04 17:35
The Getty Provenance Index maintains a database of artworks from public collections, some of which have provenances.Additional Databases PUBLIC COLLECTIONIn the owner field, we searched on P… Read More
2020-06-03 05:36
pohttp://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#typehttp://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concepthttp://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#typehttp://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concepthttp://w… Read More
2020-06-01 09:27
pohttp://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#typehttp://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concepthttp://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#typehttp://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concepthttp://w… Read More
2020-05-29 16:17
Kornfeld, Kallir and Nierenstein in several museum provenances(attention: some artworks appear more than once)It can be enlightening to gather provenances from different museums or instituti… Read More
2020-05-27 13:21
In this post, we publish a tiny subset of names that should immediately set off alarms when they appear in the provenance of an artwork:Art collectors, dealers, curators, historians, and oth… Read More
2020-05-12 07:03
How information about Jewish art collectors who died in the Holocaust goes missing in the semantic web of linked data.1. How many art collectors, dealers, curators, museum directors, a… Read More
2020-05-09 07:37
What does it mean to find the name of Alfred Daber or of Galerie Daber in a provenance?https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1980.265 DABER is a name that can be found in the provenances of… Read More
2020-05-03 16:09
In our previous post, we introduced the idea of using Wikidata Queries to Trace Jewish art collectors and their collections.In this post, we begin to look at how we might identify these Jewi… Read More
2020-04-27 11:44
How to represent in a way that is meaningful the mass slaughter of individuals, each with his or her individual thoughts, hopes, dreams, achievements, struggles, relationships and passions?T… Read More
2020-04-23 06:44
What does it mean to find the name Franz Kieslinger in a provenance? (above "Acquired from Dr. Franz Kieslinger, expert at the Dorotheum, Vienna, for 40 Reichsmarks in 1939"Franz Kiesli… Read More
2020-04-12 07:55
InstitutionUK Collections Trust Spoliation Report ArtworksBritish Museum7329Courtauld Gallery3133Fitzwilliam Museum2415Glasgow Museums344Manchester City Galleries298Amgueddfa Cymru168Nationa… Read More
2020-04-10 17:00
Art Market and the Holocaust: New Questions about the Miedl Looted Art NetworkAlois Miedl: art looter Miedl's network according to the Art Looting Investigation Unit Final Report of 194… Read More
2020-04-10 13:45
Dear Readers,Many of you are tech savvy, so I'm hoping that maybe one of you can help.Open Art Data is getting thousands of visits from Hong Kong for reasons that are unknown.They do not ap… Read More
2020-04-08 15:58
Dataset name: National Gallery of Art Enhanced Provenance Research Dataset NEPIP PUBLICDescription: This enhanced Provenance dataset has been constructed from information ava… Read More
2020-04-06 17:16
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston CC BY-SA 3.0, LinkDataset name: Museum of Fine Arts Boston Enhanced Provenance Research Dataset NEPIP PUBLICDescription: This enhanced Provenance d… Read More
2020-04-03 03:44
- The Persistent Crime of Nazi-Looted Art, by Sophie Gilbert, in The AtlanticLooted ArtThe director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Alfred H. Barr Jr. used art dealer Cur… Read More
2020-03-03 13:18
Dataset name: Enhanced Harvard Art Museums Provenance Research Dataset Description: This enhanced Provenance dataset has been constructed from information available on t… Read More
2020-02-25 15:00
A couple of years ago Belgium announced it would publish the looted artworks in its public art collections on a central website. The announcement came after journalist Geert Sels … Read More
2020-02-23 15:45
Nelly II, Otto Dix, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of The Buchholz GalleryAlong with the infamous Hildebrand Gurlitt, Ferdinand Moeller and Bernhard Boehmer, Karl Buchholz was o… Read More
2020-02-14 10:00
PROVENANCE Still Life with Sweetmeats, Boston MFAAnonymous collection, Spain. Anonymous dealer, Switzerland; sold by this dealer to Frederick Mont, New York; 1962, sold by Mont to the M… Read More
2020-02-10 12:23
Woman Tuning a Lute Private Collection, Lombardy, Italy. By 1959, Vitale Bloch (b. 1900 - d. 1975), The Hague and Paris; 1969, sold by Bloch to the MFA. What does it mean to find t… Read More
2020-02-08 09:59
Bust of Christ 1964.172 Fogg Museum, https://rkd.nl/explore/images/232193 *The RKD database publishes provenances for many artworks by Dutch artists and has excellent search f… Read More
2020-01-31 15:13
It is difficult to find the provenance of European artwork on the website of the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA). However by searching the excellent RKD site, one can find the ownership… Read More
2020-01-27 12:27
Art dealers like Frederick Mont played an important role in bringing art to American museums. In previous posts we looked at the biography of Frederick Mont, also known as Frederick Mon… Read More
2020-01-25 20:44
It is difficult to find the provenance of European artwork on the website of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). However by searching the excellent RKD site one can find the ownership… Read More
2020-01-24 11:04
Are we there yet? What is the Estimated Time of Arrival? Dashboards with objective measurements provide clarity and transparency in project management. Below are some suggested in… Read More
2020-01-22 19:30
A selection of Provenance texts that contain the word "privat" in the online database of paintings and sculptures at the Albertina Museum in Vienna:ArtistTitleDateInventory numberProvenanceA… Read More
2020-01-21 10:08
Description of Dataset: This Dataset presents provenance of artworks from the Provenance Disclosure Project of the Saint Louis Art Museum in an easy to download CSV file. It is intended to f… Read More
2020-01-18 09:02
Gabriele Anderl, author of NS-Kunstraub in Österreich und die Folgen, has a new book coming out about the art market in Vienna from 1938-1945: Wiener Kunsthandel 1938–1… Read More
2020-01-16 16:20
In 2004, the journalist Ian Traynor covered a story about secret German archives that documented how the household possessions of Jewish families deported to their deaths were acquired by ne… Read More
2020-01-15 19:00
A look at provenance information published by the Barbier-Mueller Museum in 2020. (Part of the multipart series on the state of provenance research and online publication in Swiss art m… Read More
2020-01-15 05:13
Switzerland has many excellent art museumsHow are Swiss art museums doing on provenance? Which museums do -- and which museums do not -- publish online provenance texts for their art collect… Read More
2020-01-14 17:45
The Koetser name appears in the provenance of artworks in museums and auction houses throughout Europe and the USA.(see Art Dealers: The Many Names of Koetser and Explorations in D… Read More
2020-01-08 15:42
DATASET: Provenance 1559 European Artworks Yale University Art GalleryDescription: This dataset contains publicly available information originally published online by the Yale Univ… Read More
2020-01-05 13:28
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art DATASET: Provenance information gathered from the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art online collections website.Description: This dataset contains publicly available in… Read More
2020-01-03 11:23
Les Fruits de l'amour secretFrance's Rose-Valland MNR site publishes detailed information about the history of paintings looted by Nazis and returned to France after WWII. For the above… Read More
2019-12-30 13:33
source: Kimbell https://www.kimbellart.org/collectionDATASET: Provenance information gathered from the Kimbell Art Museum online collections website.Date : DEC 2019Format: CSVGoogle She… Read More
2019-12-27 06:15
As 2019 draws to a close, one is astonished at how little digital analysis has been published concerning artworks that changed hands during the Nazi era and still have provenance gaps today… Read More
2019-12-20 11:34
The Netherlands, which saw more than 75% of its Jews murdered in the Holocaust*, has created a website for "what remains of the artworks recuperated from Germany after World War II and is ma… Read More
2019-12-16 12:50
I recently clicked on a link for the UK National Gallery Whereabouts of paintings 1933-1945and found it no longer worked. Here is the old url which has stopped working:… Read More
2019-12-09 13:56
The Kunstdatenbank provides information about Nazi-era provenance research projects in Austria.Below is a summary of the status of provenance research for the Albertina Museum, based on the… Read More
2019-12-08 13:54
AMAM Provenance ListEuropean paintings in the AMAM collection with incomplete provenance and/or changes in ownership in Europe for the period 1933-1945:ArtistArtworkAccNumProvenanceApollonio… Read More
2019-12-08 06:45
https://plone.unige.ch/art-adr/cases-affaires/13-antiquities-2013-italy-and-boston-museum-of-fine-arts-1https://plone.unige.ch/art-adr/cases-affaires/14-antiquities-2013-italy-and-cleveland… Read More
2019-12-07 08:05
Chronicle of an Obsession, The History of the Exner Asian Collection by Gabriele Anderl (in German)I. The Kunstdatenbank entry for the World Museum in Vienna has this to say abou… Read More
2019-12-05 11:30
Answers to written parliamentary questions No 4024 - 4263 / J - NR / 1998 concerning works of art in Possession of the Republic of Austria (original text in German: "Die schriftlichen p… Read More
2019-12-03 17:42
How is Austria doing when it comes to publishing Nazi-era provenance research?In this new series, we look at the major Austrian museums to see what kind of provenance information is publicly… Read More
2019-11-29 22:09
DIA*Below are European paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum collections which illustrate some of the kinds of provenance gaps one can still see today in museum collections.The f… Read More
2019-11-21 11:22
In 1978 the Courtauld Institute received an important bequest from Count Antoine Seilern. Officially anonymous, it was to be presented as "Bequeathed as part of the Princes G… Read More
2019-10-31 17:31
Dataset name: Enhanced MoMA PRPDescription: This enhanced Provenance dataset has been constructed from information available on the public internet site of the Museum of Mode… Read More
2019-10-31 08:03
The Looted Art Bibliography lists 398 references to newspaper articles, journals, books and monographs about looted art. However, many of these seem to be difficult to find online today, eve… Read More
2019-10-23 07:02
UK Holocaust Era Provenance ResearchUK museums have an internet site where spoliation reports are centralised and provenance texts can be searched. It is called "Spoliation reports from UK m… Read More
2019-10-19 08:59
How open are French art museums concerning the acquisition history and provenance of the artworks in their collections? Art museums in FranceOn Sunday, October 20, 2019 in Paris, as par… Read More
2019-10-16 13:14
NEPIP: The following museums declare that they have No Relevant Objects"List of U.S. Museums That Hold No Relevant Objects"Academy Art Museum, Easton, MDAlbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N… Read More
2019-10-10 05:38
-----In 2000, The Chicago Tribune published "KEY TO ART NAZIS STOLE MAY BE LOCKED AWAY". The article, written by journalist and history professor Ron Grossman, recounts the struggl… Read More
2019-10-01 22:48
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Vlug Report, written in December of 1945 and named after it… Read More
2019-09-30 09:30
Otto Wertheimer was an art dealer who owned Galerie Les Tourettes.(photo: Hercules and the Lion, Boston Museum of Fine Arts)The (always informative) RKD says Otto Wertheimer was bo… Read More
2019-09-19 10:10
A simple Google search on JJ Klejman turns up several interesting articles concerning art from European colonies. Below are the results from a search (from Europe) on September 19, 2019(phot… Read More
2019-09-17 16:07
The Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) has published thirty artworks on the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal (NEPIP).In this post, we see what we can learn about the history of these a… Read More
2019-09-04 07:08
Two of the artworks on the Buehrle Foundation Website mention Cailleux in their provenance: François-André Vincent's "Young Lady with a Turban" and Francesco Guardi's The Cruci… Read More
2019-08-17 12:51
The name "Cailleux" appears in the provenance of at least nine artworks in the Norton Simon Museum:-->Accession_NbrTitleArtistProvenanceF.1983.07.1.PRest of the ShepherdsJean-Baptiste Des… Read More
2019-08-12 17:30
The German Lost Art Foundation lists 17 artworks that mention Cailleux in the provenance, most of which are "acquisitions for the so-called Führer Museum in Linz".1Seated Female NudeTyp… Read More
2019-08-09 22:30
As part of the Cailleux Project, we collect references to Cailleux in catalogs. The 1976 Toledo Museum of Art European Paintings (introduction by Otto Wittmann) contains numerous mentions of… Read More
2019-08-07 17:37
In his groundbreaking 1995 book, The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art, Hector Feliciano devoted several pages to the activities of the Galerie Cail… Read More
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