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  1. "Art, looting, restitution - forgotten life stories": SPK and SKD cooperate for educational project on Nazi art looting (10.06.2025)

    "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

  2. SPK restitutes three Kogi objects (10.02.2025)

    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

  3. SPK restitutes a statuette to the heirs of Charlotte Prybram-Gladona (23.02.2026)

    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

  4. SPK restitutes Lovis Corinth painting from the Littmann Collection and subsequently receives it as a gift for the Alte Nationalgalerie (27.01.2026)

    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

  5. Mecila Working Paper on Restitution and Postcolonial Justice (23.07.2025)

    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

  6. What has happened since the 2008 restitution request for the Guelph Treasure?

    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

  7. Restitution: Books of the French Politician Georges Mandel (15.07.2022)

    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

  8. Art, Looting, and Restitution – Forgotten Life Stories (23.02.2023)

    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

  9. Nazi-Looted Art: Nursing Madonna Statuette Restituted (24.01.2023)

    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

  10. Restitutions: Works Restored to the Descendants of Carl Heumann (04.07.2022)

    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