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The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently transferred ownership of the two watercolours "Susanna" (1914) and "Mother and Child" (1918) by Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919) to the heiress of the art critic and collector Paul Westheim, Dr Margit Frenk. The works were purchased by the Prussian Cul

Following extensive historical research, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the heirs of Prof Dr Curt Glaser have agreed on the return of four works from the former collection of Prof Dr Curt Glaser to his heirs. Prof Dr Curt Glaser, a medical doctor, prominent art historian, art critic,

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned two works from the Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin to the two grandsons of the art dealer Kurt Walter Bachstitz. The objects in question are a writing tablet and a bronze mortar from the Renaissance period. The obje

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has today restituted two drawings from the holdings of the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The provenance of the sheets had been examined as part of a systematic provenance research project. They turned out to have formerly belonged t

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted eight works of art to the heirs of Felicia Lachmann-Mosse. The works were part of the extensive art collection that her father, the Berlin publisher Rudolf Mosse, had built up since the 1880s. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation had come

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has today restituted 13 volumes from the holdings of the Berlin State Library to the Jewish Community of Vienna (IKG Vienna). The volumes in question were published between 1840 and 1914. Four volumes were formerly owned by the Jewish Community, the other ni

The Advisory Commission, which is chaired by Prof Dr Jutta Limbach and deals with issues relating to the restitution of cultural assets seized as a result of Nazi persecution, today recommended that the so-called Welfenschatz from the Museum of Decorative Arts of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Found

On 4 September 2015, the odyssey of three manuscripts - two medieval and one modern - that once belonged to the library of Halberstadt Cathedral Grammar School ended with their return to the city of Halberstadt. The two medieval manuscripts were among the extensive holdings of books, newspapers, jou

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently returned a work from the Kupferstichkabinett to the heiress of art collector Dr Fritz Haussmann. However, the allegorical drawing of the 18th century architect Jean Baptiste Broebes will remain in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, which acquired it f

Today, Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Director General of the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage, handed over 384 volumes from the former library of the Masonic Lodge to Matthias Bohn, a member of the board of the St John's Lodge "Teutonia zur Weisheit" in Potsdam. The books were identified