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Verantwortung Wahrnehmen: Fremdbesitz im Museum (Taking Responsibility: Non-Museum Property in Museums. 15 September 2003.
Verantwortung Wahrnehmen: Fremdbesitz im Museum (Taking Responsibility: Non-Museum Property in Museums)
Date
15 September 2003
Location
German Museum of Hygiene, Dresden
Description
A one-day colloquium organised jointly by the State Ministry of Saxony for the Sciences and Arts, the Dresden State Collections of Art and the Coordination Office for Lost Cultural Assets in Magdeburg and intended as a training event for the staff of public museums, collections, academic collections, archives and libraries.
In addition to providing information on the issue, the colloquium sought to encourage the exchange of information and experience as well as offer an opportunity to ask questions.
The colloquium papers focused on public collections and questions arising for them in connection with looted property of Jewish provenance. Other issues addressed included wartime storage, incl. property held in custody and wartime losses. The event was chaired by Dr. Wolfgang Holler, Director of the Print Collection of the Dresden State Collections of Art.
Programme
10:00 Introduction
Welcome Address, Dr. Matthias Rößler, State Minister for the Sciences and Arts of the Free State of Saxony
Die Patronatsfunktion der Staatlichen Kunstsamlungen Dresden (The Dresden State Art Collection's role as a Patron), Dr. Martin Roth, General Director of the Dresden State Collections of Art.
10:50 Problem areas and methods
www.lostart.de - Zielstellungen, Möglichkeiten, Grenzen (www.lostart.de - Aims, Possibilities, Limits), Dr. Ulf Häder, Coordination Office for Lost Cultural Assets, Magdeburg
Archiverschließung und Provenienzforschung in Berlin (The evaluation of archives and provenance research in Berlin), Dr. Jörn Grabowski, Director of the Central Archive of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Aufgaben und Arbeit der Jewish Claims Conference (The tasks and work of the Jewish Claims Conference), Dr. Ute Babick-Krüger, JCC Offices Saxony
Juristische Aspekte des Entzugs von Kulturgütern aus jüdischem Besitz (Legal aspects of the divestment of Jewish-owned cultural property), Sabine Rudolph, Phd student, Faculty of Law, Technical University Dresden
Kriegsbedingte Verlagerungen und die Rückgabeverhandlungen mit den Nachfolgestaaten der GUS (Wartime storage and the restitution negotiations with the follow-up states of the CIS, Commonwealth of Independent States, i.e. former Soviet Union), Dr. Wolfgang Holler, Director of the Print Collection of the Dresden State Art Collections
Exchange of Information and discussion
13:00 Lunch Break
14:00 Case examples
Film screening: Führermuseum Linz by Thomas Claus
Die Dresdner Gemäldegalerie und das "Führermuseum" in Linz (The Gemäldegalerie Dresden and the Führermuseum in Linz), Dr. Gregor Weber, Department of Old Masters, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Das Forschungsprojekt zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden 1918-89 (The research project on the history of the Dresden State Collections of Art 1918-89), Phd Dr. Gilbert Lupfer, Technical University Dresden
Jüdischer Kunstbesitz im Görlitzer Museum (Jewish-owned works of art in the Görlitz Museum), Marius Winzeler, Municipal Collections of History and Culture Görlitz
Das "Verwahrungsgut Konsul Volmann" in den Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden ("Property held in custody for Consul Vollmann" in the Dresden State Collections of Art, Ursula Köhn, Dresden State Collections of Art
Exchange of Information and discussion
Approx. 18:00 End of the Colloquium
Contact Information
Ursula Köhn & Dr. Gilbert Lupfer
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Günzstr. 34
01307 Dresden
Tel.: +49 (351) 49 14 256 i.e. 255
Fax: +49 (351) 49 14 222
Email: k-k@sk-dresden.de
Source
Central Registry Archives, Correspondence, 5 August 2003.
