About Us:

Anne Webber, together with David Lewis, Founder and Co-Chair of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe (CLAE), founded the Central Registry of Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945, www.lootedart.com, in 2001 as an independent charitable body under the auspices of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. The Registry is an international research centre and online repository of detailed research, news and information from 49 countries and an onine database of 25,000 objects.

The Commission for Looted Art in Europe (CLAE) is an international, expert and non-profit representative body which researches, identifies and recovers cultural property on behalf of families, institutions and governments worldwide. It negotiates restitution policies and procedures and access to records, and promotes the identification of looted cultural property and the tracing of its rightful owners. CLAE is a partner in the International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural Property, and responsible for identifying, describing and introducing the UK records available in The National Archives (UK).

Anne Webber was a member of the drafting team of Council of Europe Resolution 1205 (1999) on the restitution of looted cultural property in Europe, on the organising committee of the Vilnius International Forum 2000 and the Prague Conference 2009 and is a member of the Advisory Council of the European Shoah Legacy Institute.  She was a member of the British Spoliation Advisory Committee which supervised the provenance research work of British museums throughout its term of 1999-2008. She was a member of the Hunt Museum Review Group and is on the Executive Board of the International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural Property.

She founded and chaired the UK's International Tracing Service (ITS) Stakeholder Committee which negotiated the UK's taking a digital copy of the ITS records to be housed at The Wiener Library, London. She is a member of the UK Government Delegation to the International Commission which governs the ITS, and is a member of The Wiener Library's ITS Oversight Committee. She is a Governor of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, President of the Jewish Book Council and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Selected Broadcast Media:

It’s My Story: Looted Art BBC R4 3 August 2006

Twice Looted or Twice Stolen? BBC R4 4 September 2007
The Private Life of a Christmas Masterpiece BBC2 25 December 2010

Fake or Fortune BBC1 10 July 2011

Heir Hunters BBC1 8 March 2013

Email:
annewebber@lootedart.com