German-American Exchange Programme on Provenance Research: Apply now for 2019! And: Save the Date for Munich in October 2018
Press release from 07/03/2018
The German-American Exchange on Provenance Research will enter its third year after the upcoming autumn meeting in Munich. Interested parties can apply for 2019 until 28 September 2018.
The "German-American Provenance Exchange Program for Museum Professionals (PREP)" is intended to help expand the methods and expertise of provenance research in both countries and thus support the search for cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution. The three-year programme is aimed at provenance researchers, curators, archivists and other museum experts. Doctoral students and volunteers at museums are also invited to take part in the exchange programme. The participants of each year meet for one workshop in the United States and one in Germany (2019: Dresden / Washington).
Following a successful meeting at the Getty Research Institute in spring 2018, this year's autumn meeting in Munich will be hosted by the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte. Several public events will take place as part of the workshop:
- Monday, 8 Oct 2018, 17.30: Framing the Monuments Men: Past and Present (Bayerische Amerika-Akademie)
- Wednesday, 10.10.2018, approx. 2 to 6 pm: Colloquium (Central Institute for Art History); 6 pm: Panel discussion (NS Documentation Centre)
- Friday, 12 October 2018, 4-6 pm: Panel discussion "Challenges of Current and Future Transnational Provenance Research / Tracing Shared Heritage" (Haus der Kulturinstitute/Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte)
Further links
- "The German/American Provenance Research Exchange Programme: An International Autobahn for Provenance Researchericht from Los Angeles"
- Further information on PREP and the application process
Organisers:
- Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Central Archive of the National Museums in Berlin)
- Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA (Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative)
Project partners:
- Dresden State Art Collections
- Central Institute for Art History, Munich
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
- German Lost Art Foundation (Advisory Participant)
Funding: The project is funded by the Transatlantic Programme of the Federal Republic of Germany with funds from the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). PREP is also funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a resolution of the German Bundestag.