Web Resources:
Essential Website Links
Links
This section includes links for the following:
- Non-profit claimant organisations
- Websites of looted works of art or of art with gaps in its provenance
- Institutions with ongoing provenance research
- Resources for claimants
- National claims processes
- Research resources
- Institutional guidelines
If any of these links do not work, please let us know at info@lootedart.com.
1. NON-PROFIT CLAIMANT ORGANISATIONS
UK: Commission for Looted Art in Europe
The Commission is the sole dedicated expert international organisation in this field. Based in London, it assists claimants with advice and guidance and represents claimants from all over the world to identify, locate and recover their looted cultural property. It has been instrumental in the recovery of over 3,500 items in the last few years.
In addition to the Commission for Looted Art, the following non-profit organisation works with claimants to provide guidance, and to identify and recover looted cultural property:
USA: Holocaust Claims Processing Office
2. WEBSITES OF LOOTED WORKS OF ART OR OF ART WITH GAPS IN ITS PROVENANCE
The Central Registry of Information of Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945 at www.lootedart.com contains a fully searchable database with 25,000 looted artworks from over 12 countries including Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Hungary. Country specific websites include the following:
Austria: Art Database of the Austrian National Fund
Austria: Wien Museum
Czech Republic: Restitution Art Database
Finland: Provenance Research in Finnish Museums
France: ERR Database
France: MNR Musées nationaux Récupération
France: Schloss Collection
Germany: Central Collecting Point Munich
Germany: Finance Ministry Bundesamt für zentrale Dienste und offene Vermögensfragen (BADV)
Germany: Hitler's Linz Collection
Germany: Hitler's Private Collection (Katalog der Privat-Gallerie Adolf Hitlers)
Germany: Lostart.de
Israel: Looted Art at the Israel Museum Jerusalem
Luxembourg: Musée Nationale d’Histoire et d’Art Luxembourg
The Netherlands: Origins Unknown Herkomst gezocht
Poland: Wartime Losses
Russia: Russian Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography (Rosokhran-Kultura)
United Kingdom: Art database of the Central Registry of Information
United Kingdom: UK Museums' provenance research
United Kingdom: British Museum list of Old Master Drawings without provenance for the period 1933-1945
USA: US Museums Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal
3. INSTITUTIONS WITH ONGOING PROVENANCE RESEARCH AND/OR PROVENANCE INFORMATION
Australia:
Art Gallery of New South Wales
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Queensland Art Gallery
Austria:
Albertina
Austrian National Library (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
Belvedere - and growing digital database of its collection
Landesmuseum Joanneum
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Leopold Museum Vienna (Research Database)
MAK (Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst )
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Salzburg Provincial Collections (Salzburger Landessammlungen)
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck - Provenance Research and Restitution
State Museum of Upper Austria, Linz (Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum - sammlungen - provenienzforschung)
Vienna University Library (Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Wien)
Canada:
Art Gallery of Ontario
Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
National Gallery of Canada
Germany:
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Municipal Library Nuremberg (Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg)
Städel Museum Frankfurt
University Library Marburg (Universitätsbibliothek Marburg)
Ireland:
Hunt Museum Limerick
Russia:
M. I. Rudomino All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature Vserossiiskaya Gosudarstevennaya (Biblioteka Inostrannoi Lituratura- VGBIL)
USA:
Art Institute of Chicago
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art
Getty Provenance Index Database (works of art in British and American public collections up till 1990 by artists born before 1900)
Indiana University Art Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Toledo Museum of Art
4. RESOURCES FOR CLAIMANTS
Austria: The Commission for Provenance Research (Kommission für Provenienzforschung)
Austria: The Holocaust Victims’ Information and Support Center (HVISC)
Czech Republic: Documentation Center of Property Transfers of World War ll Victims
France: Commission pour l’Indemnisation des Victimes de Spoliations (The Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Spoliation, CIVS)
Germany: Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste (Coordination Office for Lost Cultural Assets)
International: International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural Property
Israel: Hashava (Company for Restitution of Holocaust Victims Assets)
United Kingdom: Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945
United Kingdom: Central Office for Holocaust Claims
United Kingdom: Cultural Property Advice
United Kingdom: Art Loss Register
USA: Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany
USA: Commission for Art Recovery of the World Jewish Congress
5. NATIONAL CLAIMS PROCESSES
Germany: German Advisory Commission (Contact through Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste Coordination Office for Lost Cultural Assets)The Netherlands: Adviescommissie Restitutieverzoeken Cultuurgoederen en Tweede Wereldoorlog (The Advisory Committee on the Assessment of Restitution Applications for Items of Cultural Value and the Second World War)
United Kingdom: Spoliation Advisory Panel
6. RESEARCH RESOURCES
The Central Registry provides a comprehensive online database of international research and archival resources together with an extensive news archive. Please visit www.lootedart.com.To receive the weekly Looted Art Newsletter with the latest international news stories about Nazi-looted cultural property, details of exhibitions and conferences and developments in research resources, click here.
National Resources
Austria: Austrian State Archives (Österreichisches Staatsarchiv)
Austria: City of Vienna Archive (Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv)
Austria: Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (Dokumentationsarchivs des österreichischen Widerstandes)
Israel: Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority
USA: National Archives - Holocaust Era Assets
USA: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
7. INSTITUTIONAL GUIDELINES
United Kingdom: National Museums Statement of Principles and Proposed Actions 1998USA: American Museum Association Guidelines Concerning the Unlawful Appropriation of Objects During the Nazi Era 1998
USA: Art Dealers Association of America Guidelines Regarding Art Looted During The Nazi Era
