"Probably", "possibly", "apparently", "proposes" and "allegedly" in texts for Degas' Dancer Adjusting the Shoulder Strap of Her Bodice at the NGAThe National Gallery of Art has not published… Read More

Claims for Nazi-looted art or duress sales sometimes result in restitution or settlement agreements which cause the restituted artwork to be sold at auction.Below are artworks whose provena… Read More

Martha Liebermann committed suicide the day before her planned deportation by the #Nazis to the Theresienstadt GhettoHer heirs list this portrait of her daughter Käte by her husband Max… Read More

The Paul Graupe auction house was a key player in sales of Jewish art collections during the Nazi-era.In this post, we look at a selection of  88 artworks in American museums that menti… Read More

 How are Swiss museums progressing on Nazi-era provenances?A search for Marc Chagall at the Kunstmuseum Basel.Marc ChagallMa fiancée aux gants noirs, 1909Öl auf Leinwan… Read More

What does "reportedly found in" mean when it appears in a provenance text for an artworks or antiquity?Below are a few sample texts.(Texts published by museums are indicated by color.)Urlsam… Read More

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In 2009, Sotheby's put up for sale this Renoir entitled DEUX FEMMES DANS UN JARDIN with the following provenance.PROVENANCESo… Read More

Looted Art Detector: Part 2 Using custom indicatorsexample with : ALIU Red Flag restorersThe user can analyse provenances for any names or words that seem interesting.The list below con… Read More

detail of Marble female figure Cycladicca. 3200–2700 BC (on loan to the Met) Phoenix Ancient Art has been in the news quite a bit lately, and art crime experts are advising m… Read More

Below is a translation into English of the following document: Le pillage des oeuvres d'art en France pendant l'Occupation  des actions organisées et de grande envergure&nbs… Read More

Museums and auction houses rarely mention that a name in a provenance of an artwork corresponds to a person who was robbed and murdered by the Nazis or a Jewish refugee fleeing to escape the… Read More

Jakob Goldschmidt (1882-1955) was one of the most important bankers of the Weimar Republic. Persecuted by the National Socialist regime, Goldschmidt fled Germany in the spring of 1933 a… Read More

Where do artworks that passed through notorious looted antiquities trafficker Nicolas Koutoulakis pop up?Dataset with Koutoulakis-linked items in the:J. Paul Getty MuseumMetropolitan Museum… Read More

The Minneapolis Institute of Art publishes provenances for some artworks but not for others.Below is a list of selected artworks at Artsmia.Provenances, where present, are from April 20… Read More

Art looting networks operate on many levels, many of them hidden, over long periods of time. The native graph function of Wikidata enhanced by federated queries can help track them. Tracking… Read More

 Art historians, provenance researchers, museum curators, scholars of the Holocaust and the art market, If you would like to know whether a person in a provenance is a Holocaust victim… Read More

Word/Phrase 1961 Catalogue Count 2019 Bürhle website Count dealer 1 0 silberberg… Read More

Why did the National Gallery of Victoria originally list a "Dr. Grunden of Hamburg" in the provenance of this 17th century painting by Gerard ter Borch, Lady with a Fan? When Max Emden'… Read More

PhotoShort TitleDateAccNumCredit LineProvenancePedestal Table (Translation)192247.10.80T. Catesby Jones CollectionNO PROVENANCEThe Banjo Player (Primary Title)192147.10.81T. Catesby Jones Co… Read More

September 2, 2023DATASET Metropolitan Museum of Art artworks with links to Douglas Latchford, Robert Hecht, Harry Sperling, John Klejman, Klaus G. Perls, Joseph Brummer Dataset name: S… Read More

Source UrlTitleArtistCredit LineAcc NumProvenancehttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483489Crouching Woman with CrabAristide Maillol | Crouching Woman with Crab | French | The Me… Read More

 QUESTION TO CHATGPT (code interpreter)Spink and Sons is an art dealer involved in selling many looted artifacts. Please examine this file and tell me three ways it could be analysed to… Read More

PROGRESS REPORTTwenty-five years have passed since the Washington Conference on Holocaust era assets.Yet there is still no central database of museum artworks with their provenances. Some mu… Read More

This is a searchable text-only copy of recommendations originally published by the Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property  (Beratende Kommission NS-Raubgut)Robert G… Read More

To read the complete newsletter, please see: https://www.restitutiecommissie.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Network-Newsletter-no.16-April2023.pdfIn this post, we reproduce the case stud… Read More

In this conversation with the AI ChatBot, I asked it to look at the provenance text for Picasso's Woman with Pears, at the MoMa.The provenance text on MoMa's website is:[Galerie Kahnweiler… Read More

Analysis of Piet Mondrian Trees c. 1912 (Accession Number 61.1) at the Carnegie Museum of Arts, provenance information from GithubDialogue with ChatGPT about Nazi era provenance gaps(Note th… Read More

I asked ChatGPT for help writing a program in R to classify whether an artwork is ok, a forgery, or Nazi loot. What do you think of the result?PROMPTGiven a dataset with 20,000 provenance te… Read More

 Formulating questions for an AI Chatbot can be a good way to clarify issues and methodologies.In the conversation below, I ask ChatGPT for help in detecting patterns in the false prove… Read More

"the posthumous impressions from his canceled plates by the Frank Perls Gallery began after 1939 some twenty-two years after Edgar Degas' death in 1917.""Edgar Degas died in 1917. The ten so… Read More

Adolph Menzel, restituted to the heirs of Walter WestfeldWhen Nazi-looted artworks are restituted, families are often obliged to sell at least some of the artworks. For this they turn to auc… Read More

The provenances of artworks restituted to Jewish families  plundered by Nazis contain valuable information for the art historian and Holocaust scholar.Questions:Which transactions occur… Read More

Citation networks can be used to uncover disinformation by revealing patterns of information flow within a particular domain or community. By analyzing the connections between different… Read More

The Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal, published by the American Alliance of Museums, currently lists 29,874 objects from 179 participating museums. A search for Van Gogh returns 73 o… Read More

PREFIX skos: SELECT ?person ?category WHERE {  ?category a skos:Concept .  ?category skos:prefLabel ?label .  FILTER (CONTAINS(?label, "Jewish emigrant"))?person dct:subject ?… Read More

This Nazi-looted painting was restituted in 2016. https://www.lostart.de/de/Verlust/526702Often, when a painting is restituted, it is the conclusion of a long and arduous process of arc… Read More

 Hugelshofer mentioned in the Kleinberger archives after 1932(continued from Walter Hugelshofer in provenances)Records 1-16 of 161(current)Heath of a youth in profileDrawing1959-05A. wo… Read More

 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… Read More

 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… Read More

E. & A. Silberman Galleries was an art dealership owned by Abris and Elkin Silberman.  This dataset includes artworks in American museums that mention Silberman in the ownership his… Read More

Now on Mastodon!Decentralized, more thoughtful, fewer trolls, more space to write. handle: @[email protected]: https://mastodon.art/@openartdataExample of "Toots" on… Read More

 View of Krumau, 1916, by Egon Schiele December 2002The Austrian city of Linz agreed to return a landscape by Egon Schiele to the heirs of the pre-war owner, Daisy Hellman. The Gestapo… Read More

Signs that provenance research has gone off the rails include:extremely long texts that leave the reader so confused that he/she concludes that there is no such thing as knowledgemassive use… Read More

"Dr Lillie has explained the Kafkaesque system for the confiscation of goods, which usually worked like this. When a Jew applied to emigrate, in theory only 25% of his goods went to the Stat… Read More

Portrait of A. E. Gallatin, I905A claim for restitution has been made against the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the return of "Composition with Blue" by Piet Mondrian, 1926. The artwork was… Read More

2017.75.2Two Studies of Dancersabout 1873Edgar Degas (French, 1834 - 1917)Not currently on view https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/109NEY#full-artwork-details1918 Edgar De… Read More

This art provenance dataset contains publicly available information originally published online by a cultural heritage institution which has been formatted as a CSV file for easy download an… Read More

 The Arkansas Art Center changed its name to the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts.There used to be an online art collections database with a search function.https://web.archive.org/web/2011… Read More

Madonna and Child DIA inv 67.119 DIA provenance listings as they appeared on October 19, 2015Provenance researchers know that the ownership history of artworks has a tendency to ch… Read More

Interesting sources available in the UK Archives for Nazi looted art.FO 371/45771/21https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13370847Registry Number: UE 6318/123/77. Corresp… Read More

 Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal, André DerainTitleTypeMaterialMuseumAccNumHead of a WomanDrawingpencil on paperArkansas Arts Center1985.002.015Seated NudeGraphic Artlithogra… Read More

Nazi Looted Art Research, focus on Curt Valentin and the sale of modern art, classified by Nazis as "Degenerate" and seized for resale to finance the Nazi war effortLocation of "Degenerate A… Read More

Henri MatisseThe Blue WindowIssy-les-Moulineaux, summer 1913at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, CreditAbby Aldrich Rockefeller FundObject number273.1939 https://web.archive.org/web… Read More

Franz Marc, The Foxes (1913) Wikimedia Commons Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish property&n… Read More

The Bend in the Road by Cézanne, Exhibited at the Bignou Gallery in New York in 1940*Walter Bareiss was, along with Baron Leon Lambert, Eugene Victor Thaw, David Carritt, Count C… Read More

Are the provenances clear and solid for the Nazi years 1933-1945? Why or why not? 1. UK Spoliation ReportsROUAULT, Georges 1871-1958Description: The Italian Woman (1938) L'Italienne [H… Read More

This information is for research purposes only. The best source for provenance information is the institution that owns the work. Provenance of Paintings Record 12861REMBRANDT HARM… Read More

In this post, we look at the name of Meissner.The Dutch masterpiece The Oyster Meal by Jacob Ochtervelt was looted by Nazis, and even today is still missing from its history the years b… Read More

In honor of the Conference "Tracking Looted Art, we are looking at some digital tools and methods that may be helpful. 1) Look at the names that appear in provenances published by the a… Read More

What are the results of a decade of provenance research into the origins of the stash of artworks found in the home of Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of Hitler's art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt?&n… Read More

False provenances are needed to insert art forgeries into the historical record.Where there is forgery there is false provenance.Dealers who sell forgeries are great sources of false provena… Read More

Max Silberberg was a Jewish art collector in Breslau murdered by the Nazis.Is he the same person as "Silbergerg" in the provenance text of "Fruits, serviette et boîte à lait" by… Read More

Half-length Portrait of the Duchess of Courland 1785Angelica KauffmannSwitzerland1741–1807Oil on canvas, 30 ¼ x 25 in. (76.85 x 63.5 cm), signed and dated "Angelica Kauffma… Read More

 OSS ALIU Art saccheggio lista di nomi con bandiera rossa tradotta in italianoTitoloOSS (USS Office of Strategic Services) Art Looting Intelligence Unit (ALIU) Reports 1945-1946 e ALIU… Read More

 The German Lost Art Foundation published online the biographies of "Beteiligte Privatpersonen und Körperschaftern am NS-Kulturegutraub" which translates to "Private individuals an… Read More

Spoliation Reports from UK Museum published by the Collections Trust Search for Benno GeigerProvenance alerts Click to View the Public Google SheetUrlTitleDescriptionAcquisiti… Read More

TitleLost Art IdArtistDescriptionProvenanceLiegender Löwe | Lost Art-Datenbank569380UnbekanntPlastik / Skulptur Objektgruppe Plastik / Skulptur Material / Technik Bronze & Gold / ge… Read More

 The panelists at the conference on Nazi-looted art in Italy that just took place in Venice offered many interesting insights. One of the topics that came up was the art dealer Benno Ge… Read More

March 26, 2022The arrest of Roben Dib is a good reminder of the central role played by false provenances in the trafficking of looted art.According to The Art Newspaper, "Dib has been charge… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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 Records from the Getty Provenance Index for the artist Maurice UTRILLO   DocumentKnoedler Stock Book 11, Page 97, Row 50, Stock No. A7600Artist Name(s)UTRILLO, MAURICE (… Read More

 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 Recover… Read More

http://maps.tacticalspace.org/unserwien/map.htmlBehind every orange dot, property looted from Jews after the Nazi Anschluss of 1938Map by Tactical Space, based on the inventory of stolen pro… Read More

 Information about persecuted Jewish art collectors has a disturbing habit of disappearing from the internet.Please find below a table of lostart urls that used to work but which no lon… Read More

 Our research began in August 2002 when we were asked to record a picture by Picasso ‘Still Life with Painting’ on the ALR database by two claimants living in England and th… Read More

Henri Hinrichsen, born in Hamburg, died in AuschwitzRosa Oppenheimer, born in Berlin, died in AuschwitzErnst Pollack, born in Vienna, died in Theresienstadt concentration camp https://p… Read More

Art Historians and Provenance Researchers might find the history of the famed Swiss Art Trading Association to be an interesting source of study1. The OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit had… Read More

The Looted Art Detector automatically counts any word or phrase included in the Key Indicator file and adds information about the number of times it appears in the provenance of each artwork… Read More

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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 fi… Read More

Hilter loved the art of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (15 January 1793 in Vienna – 23 August 1865 in Hinterbrühl, Austria). He was a Nazi favourite… Read More

DATASET: Provenance information gathered from the 2015 CMOA Github merged with information from the Carnegie Museum of Art online collections websiteDescription: This dataset contains public… Read More

DATASET: Artworks published on the Dutch site Museale Verwervingen Vanaf 1933 (Investigation into the provenance of museum collections in connection with the theft, confiscati… Read More

This post, in the educational series on the experimental digital tool for analysing provenance texts, demonstrates Ranking by Red Flag Names (photo: Albright-Knox).Work in progress. Feedback… Read More

The Reaper with a SickleJean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)1838MEDIUM/TECHNIQUEOil on canvasDIMENSIONS35.3 x 27 cm (13 7/8 x 10 5/8 in.)CREDIT LINEBequest of William A… Read More

Looted Art Detector: Part 2 Using custom indicatorsexample with : ALIU Red Flag restorersThe user can analyse provenances for any names or words that seem interesting.The list below con… Read More

 DE-1958_354da674-59a2-477f-9c9d-20da7f0840c6 https://open-data.bundesarchiv.de/apex-ead/DE-1958_B_323.xmlIn attempting to verify one of the names that appears in a provenance with… Read More

NARA: copy of transcription D. I. R. # 6 - Bruno Lohse, 1945-1946 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/66892059/1/public?contributionType=transcription***Download PDFDeclassified per Ex… Read More

In the previous post we gathered one thousand provenances of artworks listed (for the most part) by American museums on the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal that contain the word "Munich"… Read More

 Research Question: How did Nazi plunder get from a cabal of looted art dealers in Munich to the art museums of the United States of America?Which names have replaced theirs in the prov… Read More

German Lost Art Foundation DatabaseObjects listed as "No Longer Owned" as of June 2021"nicht mehr im Besitz"https://www.lostart.de/Content/05_Provenienz/BestandBVA/SOBJ/28944_EN.htmlGroup of… Read More

 How to grasp the scale of the transfer from Jewish art collectors persecuted by the Nazi to museums in the United States, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, as wel… Read More

Collecting Point Wiesbaden, Gurlitt Collection List of Artworks Archives Fold3 Hildebrand Gurlitt (33 pages)(partial page, the list goes on and on)https://www.fold3.com/image/232052755A… Read More

Looting always accompanies war; but Nazi looting, and especially Nazi art looting, was different. It was officially planned and expertly carried out. Looted art gave tone to an otherwise bar… Read More

 CIR 4CHAPTER IX - CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONSHITLER took extraordinary precautions to clothe all Linz transactions in the appearance of legality. The forms of purchase were regular… Read More

Buemming, Karl W. Erbach (Odenwald). Bookseller and antique dealer in Darmstadt. Chief representative in Germany for Fischer. An important intermediary in Hofer-Fischer exchanges, as well as… Read More

Post-War Reports :Activity of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in France: C.I.R. No.1 15 August 1945 (a transcribed fully searchable text of the Report)OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES ART… Read More

A member of the staff of the Dorotheum, Vienna, Dr. HERBST was appointed by VOSS as an official buyer for Linz. He bought extensively in Holland and in Paris. Although VOSS includes him with… Read More