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The international conference "Cultural Property in Danger: Looted Excavations and Illegal Trade" ended on Friday in Berlin with an urgent appeal to curb illegal excavations and the associated systematic destruction of cultural treasures from human history worldwide. Speakers from all over the world

Work by Eduard Gaertner back in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - War loss turned up on the market - Consignor donated the work to the museum The work "Der Leipziger Platz in Berlin" (1862) by Eduard Gaertner recently returned to the Kupferstichkabinett. It was due to be a

Architecture summit on the "Blue Sofa": Sir David Chipperfield, Jacques Herzog, Regine Leibinger, HG Merz and Franco Stella in conversation with Vivian Perkovic - On 19 November 2019 from 7 pm in the new James-Simon-Galerie on Berlin's Museum Island - TV broadcast on 19 November 2019 from 11:10 pm o

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has today received back two major gouache paintings by the Berlin artist Adolph von Menzel (1815-1905), which were thought to have been lost for over sixty years. The works were identified following a tip-off from Christie's auction house, where they were to

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

The foundation stone for the central reading room of the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden is being laid today in the presence of the Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann and State Secretary Lütke Daldrup, who is standing in for the Federal Minister of Building Wolfgang Tiefensee. The new bui

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently transferred ownership of the two watercolours "Susanna" (1914) and "Mother and Child" (1918) by Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919) to the heiress of the art critic and collector Paul Westheim, Dr Margit Frenk. The works were purchased by the Prussian Cul

The Renaissance painting "Mary with the Child" was consigned to Sotheby's New York for appraisal and identified by the auction house as an old collection of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie. The owner, the American Bryan Horney, immediately agreed to return the painting to the Gemäldegalerie. He himself ha

Within just a few years, modern art in Iran in the 1960s and 1970s achieved a rich development. Its protagonists were caught in a tense relationship between connecting with international developments and drawing on centuries-old traditions. On 11 March 2017, at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut

Dresden and Berlin antiquities collections discover pieces from each other's collections - foreign property exchanged In recent years, the clarification of war losses and objects held in the collections as foreign property has been the subject of research projects at the antiquities collections in B