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  1. Adolph Menzel's "Oberregierungsrath Knerk" returns to the Kupferstichkabinett after more than seventy years (11.03.2019)

    Portrait sketch was to be auctioned at Grisebach - After initial indications of its provenance from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the auction house contacted the SPK - Collector decided to return it The portrait of "Geheimer Oberregierungsrath Knerk" (ca. 1863/1865) is a study for the monumental

  2. National Socialist art theft: Provenance researchers from Germany and America establish network (30.10.2019)

    German/American Provenance Research Exchange Programme (PREP) has come to an end: Transatlantic network has been established The German-American Exchange on Provenance Research in Museums, PREP for short, has come to an end in Washington. Museum experts from 25 German and American institutions speci

  3. SPK and Bavarian State Painting Collections launch joint project to commemorate the fate of Jews (27.01.2022)

    Multimedia archive planned to commemorate victims of Nazi persecution - life stories behind restitution cases - BKM provides 690,000 euros in funding In a three-year project, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation with its National Museums in Berlin and the Bavarian State Painting Collections wil

  4. Egidio Marzona donates rare first books of conceptual art to the art library (24.01.2025)

    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

  5. Annual press conference 2008 (25.02.2008)

    On 25 February 2008, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its activities and plans for the coming year. At the annual press conference, new projects, developments and exhibitions were also presented, reports were given on building projects and a review of 2007 was giv

  6. Annual press conference 2012 (07.02.2012)

    On 7 February 2012, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its activities and plans for the coming year. At the annual press conference, new projects, developments and exhibitions were also presented, reports were given on building projects and a review of 2011 was give

  7. Annual press conference 2016 (26.01.2016)

    Today, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation presented its plans for the coming year. The president and the directors of the five institutions presented new projects and announced outstanding exhibitions and events in 2016. As every year, the annual press conference focussed on the Foundation's

  8. War loss resurfaces: Art library receives historical "snapshots" by photographer Ottomar Anschütz back (04.02.2016)

    The Art Library of the National Museums in Berlin recently received ten historical photographs back. The vintage prints by photographer Ottomar Anschütz were previously considered a war loss. They have now turned up at auction. After the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation contacted the auction ho

  9. The SPK in 2018: spectacular archaeology, romantic wanderlust and a digital stream (24.01.2018)

    Annual reception with guests from politics, the media, culture, tourism and business at the Neues Museum - Parzinger: SPK must work more interdisciplinary - Digital transformation, education and mediation core tasks in the coming years At an annual reception in the Neues Museum, the Prussian Cultura

  10. The return of the Benin bronzes begins (16.12.2022)

    Ten Benin objects from the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage will be physically restituted to Nigeria in a few days. They are among the 514 Benin objects for which the SPK already transferred ownership to Nigeria in the summer. On 25 August 2022, Herm