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The Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin recently handed over 43 ink drawings by Josef Hegenbarth (1884-1962) to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD). The drawings had come to the Staatliche Museen in East Berlin in 1958 as part of the repatriation of artworks from the Sovi

Grütters: Berlin and Dresden benefit from the collector's generosity. Parzinger: The Marzona Art Collection will remain an integral part of the future Museum of the 20th Century at the Kulturforum. Cooperation between SPK and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden to be expanded. Egidio Marzona's collec

From 4 December 2016, the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will be offering an insight into the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) in the Gemäldegalerie. The collection is unique in its composition and history: not only does it have one of the largest holdi

As part of a pilot project, the SPK has been researching the provenance of around a thousand human skulls from the former colony of German East Africa, which was located on the territory of the present-day countries of Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi and Mozambique, since the beginning of October. The pro

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is returning nine works from the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin to the heirs of the Jewish entrepreneur and collector Eugen Moritz Buchthal. One of them, the etching "Fehmarnhäuser mit großem Baum" (1908) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, is

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted five works from the collections of the National Museums in Berlin to the heirs of the art dealer Heinrich Ueberall. The works had come to the museums in the course of a purchase by the Dresdner Bank in 1935. Heinrich Ueberall died in Sachsenha

Provenance research with Namibian scientists at the Ethnological Museum - Objects travel to Windhoek - Networking with cultural heritage communities, artists and the public in Namibia in the project "Confronting Colonial Pasts, Envisioning Creative Futures" As part of a partnership between the Museu

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted two medieval predella panels from the collections of the National Museums in Berlin to the heirs of the Jewish entrepreneur Harry Fuld Sr. The museums had acquired the two panels from an art dealer in 1940. The panels that were previously exhi

The SPK was recently able to recover four works of art for the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin that had been thought lost. They belong to a collection of 219 miniatures that Berlin city councillor Loewe had bequeathed to the museum in 1897. The four works have now turned up on the

The collection of the Berlin publisher and patron of the arts Rudolf Mosse (1843-1920) comprised thousands of paintings, sculptures, artefacts, books and antiques. Almost one hundred years after the death of the Jewish art collector, more is now known about them than ever before and they have been p