LostArt.de
Title
Lost Art Internet Database - Offizielle deutsche Datenbank zur Dokumentation von Raub- und Beutekunst
Description
Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste
The Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste is based at the Ministry of Culture of the Land Saxony-Anhalt in Magdeburg. It is financed jointly by the Länder and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste is Germany’s central office for the documentation of lost cultural property. Its main task is to register and document search requests and found-object reports about cultural objects taken from their owner(s) in connection with Nazi persecution or relocated as a result of the Second World War. Publication on the Internet makes it possible to search for these objects and the circumstances of their loss world-wide. In this way, the Office seeks to assist the locating and identification of these objects and to facilitate their return.
The documentation includes information on cultural objects taken from their rightful owners (a) because of persecution under National Socialism or (b) which had to be sold under threat of repression or (c) which had to be left behind because the owners were forced to flee or compelled to emigrate. This also involves cultural objects which today still evince gaps in their provenance such that an illegal dispossession between 1933 and 1945 cannot be ruled out.
Languages
English
