Research Programmes:
August 2018: Stern Cooperation Project (SCP) at Munich's Central Institute for Art History
The Stern Cooperation Project (SCP), a joint German, Israei and Canadian project based at Munich's Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (Central Institute for Art History), started work in July 2018. The project deals with the history of the German Jewish art dealer family of Julius, Selma, Max, Hedi and Gerda Stern, and the history of the galleries owned by the Stern family from 1913-1987: Galerie Stern (Dusseldorf), West's Galleries (London ) and Dominion Gallery (Montreal).
This field of research has been studied since 2002 by the Max Stern Art Restitution Project (MSARP) under the direction of Drs Clarence Epstein and Willi Korte. This concentrated on the identification and return of individual stolen art works. SCP is taking a broader approach and, through international and interdisciplinary cooperation, it will try to reconstruct the persecution-related migration history of both the family and their art business.
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