An International Symposium in conjunction with the exhibitions Orphaned Art: Looted Art from the Holocaust in the Israel Museum, and Looking for Owners: Custody, Research, and Restitution of Art Stolen in France during World War II at the Israel Museum and Auktion 392: Reclaiming the Galerie Stern Duesseldorf (from the Ben Uri, the Jewish Museum of Art, London) at the Hebrew University Mount Scopus was held on 19-20 May in Jerusalem. The Symposium was sponsored by the Max Stern Estate and organized in collaboration with
The programme is set out below and also available here.
PROGRAMME
Monday, May 19
Senate Hall, the
4:30–6 pm
Greetings
• Prof. Menachem Magidor, President of the
• Dr. Clarence Epstein, Special Advisor to the Executors of the Estate of Dr. Max Stern, Office of the President,
Concordia University,
• James S. Snyder, Director, the
• David Glasser, Chair, Ben Uri Gallery,
• Prof. Gannit Ankori, Head of the Art History Department, the
Keynote
Restitution: Against Closure, Against Moving On
Prof. Catherine MacKenzie, Department of Art History,
6–6:45 pm
Refreshments
Private viewing of the exhibition Auktion 392
At the Max and Iris Stern Gallery, Humanities Faculty
Tuesday, May 20 The Youth Wing Auditorium, the
9:30–11 am
JRSO: A Story of Rescue and Custody
Moderator: Inka Bertz, The Jewish Museum,
• Broken Shards: Mordechai Narkiss and the Rescuing of Jewish Ceremonial Objects Ariela Amar, The Jewish
• A Safe Haven: JRSO Objects in the
• Two Portraits, Two Eras: The Tale of the Rothschild Portraits Shlomit Steinberg, Curator of European Art, the
11–12pm
Pillage and Plunder
Moderator: Shlomit Steinberg, the
• Looting Art in the Name of an Ideology: A Historical Perspective Richard Cohen, Department of Jewish History, the
• The Mechanics of Cultural Plunder in Wartime
12–1 pm
Guided tour of the Orphaned Art and Looking for Owners exhibitions
1–2 pm Lunch break
2–4 pm
Provenance Research and Results
Moderator: Thomas R. Kline, Partner, Andrews Kurth LLP Assistant Professorial Lecturer,
the
• Due Diligence Matters: Why Museums Hesitate Amy Walsh, Curator of European Paintings,
• Ten Years after the
• Ten Years of
4–4:30 pm Coffee break
4:30–6:30 pm
On Looted Art and Restitution
Moderator: Catherine MacKenzie,
• Restitution Roulette: The Daunting Odds of Recovering Artworks Decades after the Nazi Era
Marilyn Henry, Author and journalist,
• Nazi Art Loot in Postwar
• Art Restitution in
Closing Remarks
James S. Snyder, Director, the