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What has happened since the 2008 restitution request for the Guelph Treasure? Article Restitution of the Guelph Treasure was first requested in 2008 by heirs to some of the Jewish art dealers in the consortium. The Beratende Kommission (Advisory Commission) concluded in 2014 that there was no basis

21.11.2018 Time Does Not Heal Wounds Article In the restitution debate there is a gap between justice and morality. Our author calls for reevaluation. Is identifying and restituting art plundered by the Nazis a question of justice? The answer to this question seems obvious, but it is interesting tha

The SPK is a member of “Berlin Research 50” (BR50), a group of non-academic research institutions founded in 2020. The BR50 interest group Internationales recently met at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. On June 15, a meeting of the BR50 interest group Internationales (International Affairs) took

The SPK is a member of “Berlin Research 50” (BR50), a group of non-academic research institutions founded in 2020. The BR50 interest group Internationales recently met at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. On June 15, a meeting of the BR50 interest group Internationales (International Affairs) took

Brazil was the most important destination for German-speaking emigrants in Latin America. In the anniversary year 2024, the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) looked back and ahead with the Brazilian Embassy and other partners. As a young man, Albert Richard Dietze (1838-1906) moved to Brazil from

To mark the centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto, the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut on the basis of rare library holdings shows how the subversive poetic and artistic movement spread in Latin America. André Breton's first Surrealist Manifesto was published in Paris on October 15, 1924. It was the b

06.09.2017 PREP: Building a Research Autobahn Article In September, 21 German and American museum professionals will meet in Berlin to learn about issues of provenance research in both countries. Jane Milosch, Director of the Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative, explains how the German/Americ

Vocational Training The Foundation and its institutions offer six training fields in IT, library services, administration, and the trades. On completing training, there is the possibility of one-year employment. Have you completed your General Certificate of Secondary Education or leaver’s certifica

18.08.2017 “In order to return something, you have to know where it comes from“ Article A project to establish the origins of East African human remains starts in October 2017 at the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (MVF) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Bernhard Heeb, curator of the MVF and ma

26.09.2017 PREP: Slashes in a Feininger - tracking their history Article MacKenzie Mallon works as the provenance specialist at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and is a participant of the German-American Exchange program on provenance research (PREP) this year. She told us about her recent research