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"Art, looting and restitution" continues with a new focus - Forgotten Jewish life stories as a starting point for democracy education in museums - Funding from the Federal Ministry of Youth in the "Live Democracy!" programme and from the Friede Springer Foundation - Focus on the fight against anti-S

Her Excellency Yadir Salazar Mejía, Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia, and Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK, today signed an agreement on the transfer of ownership of three ritual artefacts from the Kogi. They had been on loan to the SPK in Bogota since October 2024. The foundation had a

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted the sculpture of a "Christ at the Column" from the collection of the journalist and publisher Albin von Prybram-Gladona. The provenance of the work was discovered during systematic provenance research into the acquisitions of the sculpture col

The SPK has restituted the painting "Eleonore von Wilke" by Lovis Corinth from the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie to the heirs of Ismar and Käthe Littmann. They subsequently donated it to the museum, where it will continue to be on display following the Corinth exhibition. Ismar Littmann (18

In a working paper on “Restitution and Postcolonial Justice,” Julia von Sigsfeld analyzes restitution processes for cultural property in a postcolonial context. The focus is on a dialogical approach that involves museums and societies of origin on an equal footing. The Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut

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

Books from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and SLUB Dresden have been returned to the descendants of French politician Georges Mandel The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK) and the Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (S

The Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Bayerische Staatsgemä-ldesammlungen, together with broadcasters rbb and BR, commemo-rate the victims of Nazi plunder – joint project tells forgotten life sto-ries of Jewish people based on cases of restitution – launch event in the Bode Museum – Minister

The SPK has returned a 16th-century sculpture of the Virgin Mary nursing the infant Jesus to the heirs of Jakob Goldschmidt. On January 20, the SPK returned a 16th-century statuette of a nursing Madonna to the heirs of the Jewish banker and businessman Jakob Goldschmidt. The work was acquired in 193

Several German museums have returned a total of five works of art that originally belonged to the collection of Chemnitz banker Carl Heumann. On July 4, five works of art from several German museums were transferred to the heirs of Chemnitz banker Carl Heumann at the Städtische Galerie (Municipal Ga