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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 discussed the application for the return of the so-called Guelph Treasure and heard the parties involved. She has now

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2014 organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the Rectors' Conference of German Music Universities and the Berlin University of the Arts Following the great success of last year's reorganisation, the traditional Felix Mendelssohn Bart

The recently published, comprehensive 48th volume of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook looks back on 2012, the year in which both the new General Reading Room of the State Library in the Unter den Linden building and the Archaeological Centre were completed. Also documented are the openings of

On misleading reports about an alleged disagreement between Hermann Parzinger and Monika Grütters The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, emphasises that "there is no disagreement between the Minister of State and myself on the question of a necessary extension

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe are working together to clarify the provenance of Oskar Kokoschka's painting "Pariser Platz in Berlin". The Commission represents the family of Anna Caspari, a respected art dealer in Munich, who was deported from

Following his election to the American Philosophical Society last year, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, is now also a member (Foreign Honorary Member) of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, the Academy is one of the oldest learned so

A few days ago, the gouache "Ash Wednesday Morning" by Adolph von Menzel was returned to Berlin. The work had been considered lost since the Second World War. A few years ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation became aware of its whereabouts in the Lithuanian Art Museum in Vilnius. In the co

In response to the press release issued by the Central Council of the African Community, the Initiative of Black People in Germany and the NGO alliances "No Humboldt 21!" and "Genocide is not time-barred!" on 17 March 2014: "Federal government plans to deport human remains from the colonial era", th

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

Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, comments on the statements made by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters on the subject of the Gemäldegalerie's relocation to Museum Island (interview, Berliner Morgenpost, 23 February 2014): "I welcome the fact that