#lootedart — Public Fediverse posts
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The Conversation: Looted African belongings must be returned: is it repatriation or restitution? The words we use matter. “In our recent article we explained how we see this difference, and why the work of restitution restores people’s power over their future, and gives them a sense of agency. We argue that, for its part, repatriation has come to represent something less concerned with […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/28/the-conversation-looted-african-belongings-must-be-returned-is-it-repatriation-or-restitution-the-words-we-use-matter/ -
In his books The Orpheus Clock (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 2015) and the forthcoming The Prince Vanishes, Simon Goodman recounts his family’s story, which includes the first Nazi looting case settled in the United States and the first major restitution in the Netherlands since the post-war era.
#WorldWar2 #WW2 #NaziLooting #WW2Restitution #LootedArt #MissingArt
https://www.christies.com/en/stories/simon-goodman-lost-amsterdam-6e8abf3cf14144699eac6cd1f1fb9c07
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Old master painting looted by Nazis spotted in Argentinian property listing
Dutch newspaper AD says it has traced Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Portrait of a Lady to house near Buenos Aires
#ArtHistory #OldMasterPaintings #LootedArt #NaziTheft #JewishArtDealer #LateBaroquePainting #Portraiture #Argentina
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Portraits by Eugene Zak (1884-1926
Eugeniusz Zak was born to an assimilated Jewish family in what is now Belarus. Zak’s father died in 1892 + his mother moved to Warsaw with her 8 year old son. At 16 he moved to Paris + there participated in the creation of the group Rytm, formed by artists of the Polish avant-garde. His career ended suddenly when he died of a heart attack at 41.
Galerie Zak was run by the artist's widow, Jadwiga. It had a reputation as one of the most interesting galleries on the left bank, sponsering shows of Polish + Jewish artists including Kandinsky's 1st Parisian one-man show. Galerie Zak was looted + liquidated by French collaborators + Jadwiga + her son were murdered in Auschwitz by the Nazis. Many of the looted artworks are still missing.
#eugenezak #eugehiuszzak #art #artist #artworld #galeriezak #jewishartist #jewishart #lootedart #portraits #portraitart skunst #künstler #peintre #peinture
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Portraits by Eugene Zak (1884-1926
Eugeniusz Zak was born to an assimilated Jewish family in what is now Belarus. Zak’s father died in 1892 + his mother moved to Warsaw with her 8 year old son. At 16 he moved to Paris + there participated in the creation of the group Rytm, formed by artists of the Polish avant-garde. His career ended suddenly when he died of a heart attack at 41
Galerie Zak was run by the artist's widow, Jadwiga. It had a reputation as one of the most interesting galleries on the left bank, sponsering shows of Polish + Jewish artists including Kandinsky's 1st Parisian one-man show. Galerie Zak was looted + liquidated by French collaborators + Jadwiga + her son were murdered in Auschwitz by the Nazis. Many of the looted artworks are still missing.
#eugenezak #eugehiuszzak #art #artist #artworld #galeriezak #jewishartist #jewishart #lootedart #portraits #portraitart skunst #künstler #peintre #peinture
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Portraits by Eugene Zak (1884-1926
Eugeniusz Zak was born to an assimilated Jewish family in what is now Belarus. Zak’s father died in 1892 + his mother moved to Warsaw with her 8 year old son. At 16 he moved to Paris + there participated in the creation of the group Rytm, formed by artists of the Polish avant-garde. His career ended suddenly when he died of a heart attack at 41
Galerie Zak was run by the artist's widow, Jadwiga. It had a reputation as one of the most interesting galleries on the left bank, sponsering shows of Polish + Jewish artists including Kandinsky's 1st Parisian one-man show. Galerie Zak was looted + liquidated by French collaborators + Jadwiga + her son were murdered in Auschwitz by the Nazis. Many of the looted artworks are still missing.
#eugenezak #eugehiuszzak #art #artist #artworld #galeriezak #jewishartist #jewishart #lootedart #portraits #portraitart skunst #künstler #peintre #peinture
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AFP: Finland returns sacred stool looted by France to Benin. “Benin on Tuesday received from a Finnish museum a sacred ‘katakle’ three-legged stool, symbol of the African nation’s artistic wealth looted by French colonial troops in the late 19th century. The stool was the missing piece from 27 items of cultural treasure from the royal palaces of Abomey, inhabited by the kings of the west […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/16/afp-finland-returns-sacred-stool-looted-by-france-to-benin/
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🟠 Abendvortrag: Digital Benin: Looting, Provenance and Art Market Patterns
📅 26. Mai, 18:15 - 19:45 Uhr
💻 online, https://tu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/62192214002?pwd=GA9fIdjSWevmr40ge0QTv91PqE9YKy.1&utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=SODa%40fedihum.org
In diesem Vortrag stellt Dr. Felicity Bodenstein das Projekt Digital Benin vor, das einen umfassenden Zugang zum kulturellen Erbe bietet. Es verdeutlicht die Komplexität der Provenienzforschung für diese geraubten Objekte & zeigt Lücken in der Dokumentation auf.
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Looted Etruscan treasures seized after ‘tomb raiders’ post works online https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/21/looted-etruscan-treasures-seized-after-tomb-raiders-post-works-online?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Artcrime #Lootedart
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Die Familie Bacri hatte in Nordafrika ein Vermögen als Getreidehändler und Bankiers gemacht, in Paris etablierten sie sich im Kunsthandel. Kurz vor der deutschen Besatzungszeit floh die Familie, ihre Kunstwerke wurden geplündert. Camille Freyermuth zeichnet die schwierige Restitution des Besitzes nach 👇
https://artdiplomacy.hypotheses.org/617 (auf Englisch)
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US returns stolen Italian art worth $65m in vow to put loot back ‘where it belongs’ | Italy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/us-returns-stolen-art-italy -
A small pastel drawing by Claude Monet that was seized by Nazis during World War II is expected to be returned to the descendants of its previous owners by the the FBI. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/nazi-looted-monet-painting-returned-by-fbi-to-owners-descendants-1234705450/ #art #lootedart #Monet #FBI
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Über 40.000 Akten hat das Projekt zur Digitalisierung und Auswertung von Personenakten des Oberfinanzpräsidenten Berlin-Brandenburg zu Entzugsvorgängen (#OFPProjekt) jüngst bei LootedArt.com freigeschaltet.
Das Ergebnis: "Ein weiteres Datensilo", das bestehende Forschung ignoriert, schreibt Caroline Flick bei ➡ Retour:
https://retour.hypotheses.org/3050
#LootedArt #Retour #Provenienzforschung #Raubgut #NSGeschichte
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Does LACMA Have a Looted Art Problem? by Gary Baum #ARTNews
"Activists and scholars believe such sacred objects lose their meaning when displayed in glass cases, separated from their cultural context. They also believe many of LACMA’s Nepalese holdings could have been illegally removed from their land of origin. In a few cases, they wield smoking-gun documentation of objects purportedly in-situ back in Nepal. In general, they note that the country allowed foreign visitors only beginning in the early 1950s, after the fall of the authoritarian Rana dynasty; soon after, the government banned the export of culturally significant historic and artistic objects".
#Museum #Art #LACMA #LootedArt #Nepal #CulturalHeritage
@anthropology
@academicchatter
@academiccommunity
@histodons
@histodon
@culturalheritagehttps://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/does-lacma-have-a-looted-art-problem-1234696512/
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Madrid museum has right to keep Nazi-looted Pissarro, says US court
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/10/madrid-museum-has-right-to-keep-nazi-looted-pissarro-says-us-court?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_OtherWhat?
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*** Hector Feliciano, author of the ground-breaking investigation, The Lost Museum, to speak at Institut national du patrimoine on February 28, 2024!!
https://www.inp.fr/agenda/musee-disparu-trente-ans-apres-retour-sur-chemin-parcouru
#holocausteducation #arthistory #museumeducation #France #Paris #events #lootedart #provenance #books #MastoArt
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After writing up a #provenance report on a piece of #lootedart from #Cameroon, it's back to basics. Researching collector biographies. Today, focus was on Hugo Deininger, b. 1869,
exactly a mile + half from where I was born myself, in a small village in the Isar Valley east of Munich. He spent 14yrs in the German #colony East Africa as a military admin officer + acquired a ca 500 pieces collection (weapons, ornaments, sculptures, etc.) from all over the lakes' region (Tanzania, Ruanda, ....1/ -
CW: Theft of cultural objects from Nepal
“As part of four recent returns to Nepal, Marilynn Alsdorf’s trust has required the country to agree to not identify the Alsdorfs as the owners in any press releases or other public announcements, according to interviews and records obtained by ProPublica and Crain’s.”
#LootedArt #LootedObjects #Alsdorf
https://www.propublica.org/article/art-institute-chicago-nepal-artifacts-repatriation
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Each restitution of #art or a #culturalheritage object, while being celebrated, should be placed within the context of artworks held by the same institution that continue, in 2023, to lack clear #provenance.
#ETA #governance #transparency #museum #looting #anquitities #trafficking #artcrime #lootedart #transparency #dataviz #datajournalism
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Gustav Klimt's painting "Apple Tree II" hung in Vienna's #Belvedere Gallery until 2001, when it was restituted by the Austrian state to the wrong family of Holocaust victims.
The real owner was Elisabeth Bachofen-Echt, née Lederer.
What a mess.
Will Austria fix it?https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/klimts-apfelbaum-ii-fehlgeleitete-restitution-18673033.html
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ChatGPT is so bad at providing information about Nazi art cases that I asked if it blacklisted certain words or phrases and it does
#openai #gaps #erasure #artlaw #caselaw #restitution #claims #lootedart #arthistory #law #disinformation #opendata #publicaccess #information #histodon #archives #knowledgegraph #filters #museums
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“The heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, whose art collection was looted by Nazis before he was murdered in the Holocaust, are suing the Santa Barbara Museum of Art to reclaim the drawing “Portrait of the Artist’s Wife” by Egon Schiele.” #provenance #LootedArt #ArtHistory
https://www.independent.com/2023/01/17/santa-barbara-museum-of-art-sued-over-nazi-looted-drawing/ -
Research into Nazi looted art is recent.
This report from #France gives a good overview of the milestones hit since awareness about the scale of the plundering of the Jews began to rise in the 1990s
#history #wwii #lootedart #arthistory #Shoah #Holocaust #Jewish #art #restitution #litigation #research #museum #provenance #MNR #CIVS
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Research into Nazi looted art is recent.
This report from #France gives a good overview of the milestones hit since awareness about the scale of the plundering of the Jews began to rise in the 1990s
#history #wwii #lootedart #arthistory #Shoah #Holocaust #Jewish #art #restitution #litigation #research #museum #provenance #MNR #CIVS
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Research into Nazi looted art is recent.
This report from #France gives a good overview of the milestones hit since awareness about the scale of the plundering of the Jews began to rise in the 1990s
#history #wwii #lootedart #arthistory #Shoah #Holocaust #Jewish #art #restitution #litigation #research #museum #provenance #MNR #CIVS
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Research into Nazi looted art is recent.
This report from #France gives a good overview of the milestones hit since awareness about the scale of the plundering of the Jews began to rise in the 1990s
#history #wwii #lootedart #arthistory #Shoah #Holocaust #Jewish #art #restitution #litigation #research #museum #provenance #MNR #CIVS
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One of the most important aspects of Nazi era provenance is also one if the least studied and least talked about: false provenances
It’s a highly sophisticated form of #disinformation.
See:
Restitution and the Challenge of False Provenances https://youtu.be/61n1uZbASDE via
@YouTube
#learning #video #artprovenance #provenanceresearch #lootedart #artcrime #networks #museum #histodon #mastoart #glam #culturalheritage #digitalhumanities #painting #picasso
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James Rorimer was a leading figure in the art recovery unit (the Monuments Men) in WWII. This book is his first hand account of
his journey. Originally published in 1950, this edition contains lots of additions from his family. #provenance #LootedArt #WWII #ArtHistory -
“With regard to looted art he said: "The need for continued provenance research and the difficulty of matching looted art with original owners and heirs, as well as the reluctance of institutions and individual owners to surrender their holdings, has very much limited the implementation of the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art which were reaffirmed and broadened in the Terezín Declaration and at this November 2022 Conference.”
#LootedArt
https://lootedart.com/VSJ00B306761 -
“Six precious artefacts – together estimated to be worth more than €3 million – will be returned to the heirs of German Jewish woman Emma Budge from museums in Amsterdam and The Hague.”
#LootedArt #NaziLootedArt #HolocaustEraLootedArt #ArtNews #provenance #ReturnedArt #MuseumNews
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/12/precious-objects-lost-in-nazi-germany-to-be-restored-to-rightful-heirs/ -
It’s really wild that Shelby (& the #metmuseum ) have gotten away with this so long (These are all museum-grade artefacts that fall under severe export restrictions since the 1980s at least) and so often (This is at least the third time Shelby is implicated with #lootedart & #artsmuggling .
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#arthistorians #Holocaust #scholars
An important new #database of #art market #archives in #Düsseldorf for 1933-1945 has just been announced on #lootedart.com!link to search: https://www.archive.nrw.de/archivsuche