Lost Art-Database

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Short description: Catalog of objects looted by Nazis

The Lost Art-Datenbank[1] is an online database published by the German Lost Art Foundation (Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste.[2] It contains information on cultural objects looted from Jewish collectors or transferred due to Nazi persecution during the Nazi era. Until 2015, it was managed by the Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste (Magdeburg Coordination Office).[3][4]

Creation

Following the Washington Conference of 1998 and the commitments to provide more transparency regarding looted art, Germany launched the Lost Art Database in 2000 order to help Holocaust victims and their families track down artworks that had been looted from them or lost due to Nazi persecution.[5]

Functionality

The Lost Art Database lists art and books and other cultural objects that were lost, seized, stolen or forceably sold during the Nazi era.[6] The database is divided into search requests from victims' families, heirs or institutions and 'found" reports from cultural institutions on items with unresolved provenance gaps for the Nazi periods.[7][8]

The section on reports of finds lists objects that are known to have been unlawfully seized or relocated as a result of the war. In addition, reports are published here on cultural objects for which an uncertain or incomplete provenance may indicate a possible unlawful seizure or war-related relocation.

The publication of reports in the Lost Art Internet Database is carried out on behalf of and with the consent of the reporting persons and institutions. The responsibility for the content of the reports lies with these legal or natural persons.[9] There have been controversies over which items should be included.[10][11][12]

Lost Art is based on the Washington Principles adopted in 1998, which Germany has committed itself to implementing (Joint Declaration, 1999).

The Lost Art Database is considered a key resource in the search for looted art and the victims of persecution.[13][14]

Every item in the Lost Art Database has an identifier, known as a Lost Art ID.[15]

Proveana is the linked research database.[16]

Other lost art databases

Other countries have launched databases to help identify Nazi looted art, though each database has its own specificity. The German Lost Art Database is exceptional in enabling families or heirs to submit information.[17]

In most other countries the databases tend to focus on looted artworks that have not been found or artworks that were repatriated to the national authorities after the defeat of the Nazis but never returned to their original owners.[18] [5] [19][20][21]

Other databases have been created for stolen antiquities, looted art from colonial era, art stolen from Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, or from museums or collectors.[22]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Lost Art-Datenbank". https://www.lostart.de/de/start. 
  2. ↑ "Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste". https://www.kulturgutverluste.de/Webs/DE/Start/Index.html. 
  3. ↑ "Neue Stiftung forscht nach NS-Raubkunst - New foundation will search for Nazi-looted art". https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=QVHM0X511621. 
  4. ↑ "Germany Announces "Center for Cultural Property Losses": Real Progress or Window Dressing? | The Art Law Report" (in en-US). http://www.artlawreport.com/2014/10/09/germany-announces-center-for-cultural-property-losses-real-progress-or-window-dressing/. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Oleksyn, Veronika (2006-10-25). "Lost-art database unveiled" (in en-US). https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-25-et-lootedart25-story.html. 
  6. ↑ "Lost Art Internet Database - Datenbank der Such- und Fundmeldungen" (in de). http://www.lostart.de/Webs/DE/Datenbank/Index.html;jsessionid=DFEBBCEB5002CE44225F9197C041C0CC.m1. 
  7. ↑ "German Lost Art Foundation - Lost Art Database". https://www.kulturgutverluste.de/Webs/EN/Databases/Lost-Art/Index.html. 
  8. ↑ "The Lost Art Internet Database – Collections Trust". https://collectionstrust.org.uk/resource/the-lost-art-internet-database/. 
  9. ↑ Egidi, Chiara Zampetti (2022-10-05). "Provenance database shines light on looted art in Bavarian collections" (in en). https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/10/05/provenance-database-shines-light-on-looted-art-in-bavaria-collections. 
  10. ↑ "Germany: Court rules Nazi-looted art stays in database" (in en). https://www.dw.com/en/germany-court-rules-nazi-looted-art-stays-in-database/a-66306098. 
  11. ↑ "Judge Rules in Favor of Nazi-Looted Art Database in Lawsuit over Disputed Work" (in en-US). 2020-02-05. https://www.artforum.com/news/judge-rules-in-favor-of-nazi-looted-art-database-in-lawsuit-over-disputed-work-246394/. 
  12. ↑ "German Lost Art Foundation removes 63 Schiele works from database" (in en). 2018-08-28. https://apollo-magazine.com/german-lost-art-foundation-removes-63-schiele-works-from-database/. 
  13. ↑ "Welcome to lootedart.com". https://www.lootedart.com/. "Websites and Resources Lost Art Database Germany's national site for listing cultural property in its collections which was demonstrably seized from its owners between 1933 and 1945 as a result of Nazi persecution or for which such a seizure cannot be ruled out. Also includes Germany's wartime losses." 
  14. ↑ "ANN: Greater openness and interconnectivity in provenance research: German Lost Art Foundation launches English version of its website Proveana" (in en-GB). 2020-02-14. https://www.artmarketstudies.org/ann-greater-openness-and-interconnectivity-in-provenance-research-german-lost-art-foundation-launches-english-version-of-its-website-proveana/. 
  15. ↑ "Lost Art ID" (in en). https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1428. 
  16. ↑ "Accessible Data for improved Provenance Research | Proveana". https://www.proveana.de/en/start. 
  17. ↑ "Report objects | Lost Art Database". https://www.lostart.de/en/report-objects. 
  18. ↑ "Essential Website Links 2024". https://lootedart.com/UN6RBO670361. "2. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL WEBSITES OF LOOTED WORKS OF ART OR OF ART WITH GAPS IN ITS PROVENANCE" 
  19. ↑ "Stolen Holocaust art database launched" (in en-GB). BBC News. 2010-10-18. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-11564355. 
  20. ↑ "Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR): Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume" (in en). https://www.errproject.org/jeudepaume/. 
  21. ↑ "German Maritime Museum launches database for looted Jewish property" (in de). https://www.dsm.museum/en/press-area/german-maritime-museum-launches-database-for-looted-jewish-property. 
  22. ↑ centerforartlaw (2015-04-23). "Competing or Complementing: Art Loss Databases Proliferate - Center for Art Law" (in en-US). https://itsartlaw.org/art-law/competing-or-complementing-art-loss-databases-proliferate/. 

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