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SPK returns books confiscated during the Second World War to the French daily newspaper Le Figaro - Ceremonial handover at the embassy Today at the French Embassy in Berlin, the Director General of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Achim Bonte, returned 33 books to representatives of the French newspa

The Foundation recently returned the oil painting by the Bolognese painter Guiseppe Maria Crespi "The Train of Silen" from the former collection of Dr Fritz Haussmann to Fritz Haussmann's heiress. She had asserted her claim for restitution to the Foundation. The work was in the collection of the Gem

The world-famous environment "Das Kapital Raum 1970-1977" by Joseph Beuys, which is considered one of his key works, is coming to Berlin. The collector Erich Marx is donating the work to the collection of the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin as a permanent loan. The complex spatial

Today, the Foundation has handed over a collection of 71 pieces of music from the former estate of the pianist Arthur Rubinstein to his four children. The fate of this collection reflects the drama of the past century: the arbitrary rule of the Nazi era, the raids of the initially victorious German

The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation yesterday approved the merger of the Museums of East Asian Art and Indian Art. In future, they will be run as departments of the new "Museum of Asian Art". Their unification will strengthen the importance of both collections through

The National Museums in Berlin of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the art patron Yousef Jameel recently signed a contract to finance the digitisation, cataloguing and virtual preparation of large parts of the Museum of Islamic Art's collection. The generous funding from Yousef Jameel w

Collector transfers important works from the 1960s from Bruce Nauman to Lawrence Weiner / Parzinger: Important documents on the emergence of artistic ideas The collector Egidio Marzona has once again made a significant donation to the Art Library. Following the exhibition The Very First Edition. Art

Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and University of Oxford sign Memorandum of Understanding to deepen strategic partnership The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will work more closely with the University of Oxford in the areas of conservation, digitisation, research, exhibitions and visitor

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has today received back two major gouache paintings by the Berlin artist Adolph von Menzel (1815-1905), which were thought to have been lost for over sixty years. The works were identified following a tip-off from Christie's auction house, where they were to

25 July 2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the German Bundestag's resolution on the law establishing the Foundation. It contains regulations on the transfer of art and cultural assets (archive, library and museum holdings as well as scientific collections) and the associated properties, which we