Arbeitsstelle für Provenienzrecherche/-forschung AfP :

Minister Neumann issues Press Statement on Germany's Provenance Research and Restitution Record 13 December 2013

13 December 2013: Culture Minister Neumann stated that Germany will expand and develop provenance research over the next two years and that 15 further projects have been funded. He stated that lostart.de lists 25,273 work of art; that 12,200 Nazi confiscated items have been restituted since 1998, including over 7,000 books and 87 archival fonds (ie some 5,000 works of art have been restituted over 15 years); and there are 60 full time provenance researchers in German public collections in total.

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