Nazi-looted Art Webography
Principles and Guidelines
Association of Art
Museums Directors
Washington Conference on Holocaust Era
Assets
International Council of Museums (ICOM)
National Museum Directors' Conference (United
Kingdom)
American
Alliance of Museums
Vilnius International Forum on Holocaust Era Looted
Cultural Assets
UNESCO
Museums with Sites Dedicated to Provenance
Canada
National Gallery of Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
United Kingdom
National Museums
From this site, one can conduct research by first referring to the
"Spoliation Reports Index" and then to the name of each national
museum.
France
On this site, la Direction des musees de France
publishes an illustrated catalogue from the Musees nationaux
Recuperation
United States
National Gallery of Art
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of Modern Art (New York)
Cleveland Museum of Art
J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu)
Los
Angeles County Museum of Art
Worcester Art Museum
The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
(University of Chicago)
Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Europe
The Central Registry of Information on Looted
Cultural Property 1933-1945 is a charitable body operating
under the auspices of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish
Studies and established through an initiative of the Commission for
Looted Art in Europe.
International Conferences on Spoliated Works of
Art
Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era
Assets
National Studies and Projects
"Plunder and Restitution" Presidential Advisory
Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States
Sites with links to investigative committees from around
the world:
The
Commission for Looted Art in Europe
Presidential Commission on Holocaust
Assets
Research tools
Lost Art Internet Database A joint tool from
the federal and state governments in Germany. This centre for
research and documentation has information on confiscated pieces
from private and public collections that were spoliated in
Germany.
The Getty Research Institute On this site,
information regarding the history of collections and the provenance
of individual pieces is collected and distributed. It provides a
virtual research tool based on archival documents, sale catalogues
and public collections.
The National Archives and Records
Administration This site provides numerous research tools with
respect to the spoliation of works of art during the Nazi
period.
Schloss Collection
Art Loss
Register Database for looted art. For the last few years, it
has included works spoliated during the Nazi period. Subscriber fee
required.
Scipio (OCLC) A database consolidating a vast
number of sales catalogues for works of art dating back to the end
of the 16th centruy. This database is the result of a joint effort
between the national archives' libraries from a number of
countries. Subscriber fee required. However, the database can also
be accessed at the Frick Art Reference Library.
Primary Sources
Project for
the Documentation of Wartime Cultural Losses From the Cultural
Research Foundation Inc., information on the movement of works of
art, archives and other cultural properties during the Second World
War.
Pertinent
bibliography (including sales catalogue) available at the library
of the Art Institute of Chicago (Ryerson and Burnham
Library)
Theodore Allen Heinrich Papers at the University of
Regina. Henirich was an art and architectural historian. He was
an officer in the U.S. army during the Second World War. After the
war ended, he lived in Germany, where he held several key positions
involving work at the Weisbaden, Marburg and Munich Collecting
Points. During this time, he worked mainly on the restitution of
works of art that were spoliated during the war. The documents in
archival boxes 76 to 96 are relevant.
Douglas Cooper Papers at the Getty Research
Institute During the Second World War, English art historian
Douglas Cooper focused his research on the art thieves and the
dealers associated with the Nazi regime. One section of his work
involves the collection of works of art by the Nazis between 1940
and 1946. The documents in archival boxes 42 and 43 are
relevant.
The Getty Research Institute has other
archival records of Nazi-period contemporaries.
Spoliation in France
The Art Looting Investigation Unit Final Report
A report prepared by the Office of Strategic Services (U.S. Secret
Service) in 1945 and 1946. The report is based on interviews with
officials responsible for the implementation of Nazi policies and
on extensive documentation.
Organizations Assisting Claimants
Art Loss
Register
Commission for Art Recovery (affiliated with
the World Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Restitution
Organization)
Commission for Looted Art in Europe - E-mail
Holocaust Claims Processing Office of the New York
State Banking Department
The Art Claims
Dispute Resolution Service
The mandate of this private organization is to provide
out-of-court options for the resolution of disputes (mediation,
arbitration and preliminary expertise) regarding works of art
and/or their provenance.
Articles from Periodicals and Specialized
Journals
List developed by the Museum Security Network with
articles published on spoliation and restitution of culutural
property. Includes hyperlinks to the cited articles. The last
article listed is dated July 21, 2001.
List of articles published and compiled by the
Arts Journal. Includes hyperlinks to cited articles. The
last article listed is dated February 27, 2001.
Sites with Multiple Hyperlinks
Museum Security Network
Mishpat.Net (legal information)
Getty Research Library
Bibliographies
National Archives and Records Administration
(United States)
This site also offers impressive bibliographies on the following
topics:
Art in the Third Reich
Degenerate Art
Looted Art
Legal Issues
Restitution
National Gallery of Art (Washington)
On this site, the National Gallery of Art provides access to the
following documents: "A Guide to Research Resources Relating to
WWII" and the Photographic Archives of the Munich Central
Collecting Point.