This section includes links for the following:
If any of these links do not work, please let us know at info@lootedart.com.
UK: Commission for Looted Art in Europe
The Commission is the sole dedicated expert international organisation in this field. Based in London, it assists claimants with advice and guidance and represents claimants from all over the world to identify, locate and recover their looted cultural property. It has been instrumental in the recovery of over 3,500 items for families, institutions and governments.
In addition to the Commission for Looted Art, the following non-profit organisation works with claimants to provide guidance, and to identify and recover looted cultural property:
USA: Holocaust Claims Processing Office
2. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL WEBSITES OF LOOTED WORKS OF ART OR OF ART WITH GAPS IN ITS PROVENANCE
The Central Registry of Information of Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945 at www.lootedart.com contains a fully searchable database with 25,000 looted artworks from over 12 countries including Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Hungary. Country specific websites include the following:
Austria: Art Database of the Austrian National Fund
Czech Republic: Restitution Art Database
Czech Republic: Czech Documentation Centre for Property Transfers of the Cultural Assets of WW II Victims Database
France: ERR (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg) Database
France: MNR Musées nationaux Récupération
France:Œuvres récupérées en Allemagne après la chute du IIIème Reich
France: Schloss Collection
Germany: Central Collecting Point Munich
Germany: Federal Office of Adminstration Bundesverwaltungsamt (BVA)
Germany: Ardelia Hall Collection: Wiesbaden Property Cards
Germany: Hitler's Linz Collection
Germany: Hitler's Private Collection (Katalog der Privat-Gallerie Adolf Hitlers)
Germany: Lostart.de
The Netherlands: Dutch Museums Acquisitions since 1933
The Netherlands: Origins Unknown Herkomst gezocht
Poland: Wartime Losses
Russia: Russian Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography (Rosokhran-Kultura)
United Kingdom: Art database of the Central Registry of Information
United Kingdom: UK Museums' provenance research
USA: Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point Property Cards
USA: US Museums Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal
3. INSTITUTIONS WITH ONGOING PROVENANCE RESEARCH OR PROVENANCE INFORMATION ON ARTWORKS
Australia:
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Provenance research page; also Database of 34,733 works in their collection with images
National Gallery of Australia: Provenance research, including a list of 82 works with gaps in their provenance; also Database of works in their collection with images
National Gallery of Victoria: Provenance research, including a list of 46 works with gaps in their provenance; also Database of more than 75,000 works in their collection with images
Queensland Art Gallery: Provenance research, including a list of 41 works with gaps in their provenance; also Database of 19,034 works in their collection with images
Austria:
Albertina Vienna: Provenance research page; Database of 225,438 works in their collection with images
Belvedere Vienna: Provenance research page; Database of 9,903 works in their collection with images
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna: Provenance research page; Database of 22,419 works in their collection with images
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz: Provenance research page; Database of 16,556 works in their collection with images
Leopold Museum Vienna:Provenance research page; Database of works in their collection with provenance details
MAK Museum für angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Arts): Provenance research and restitution page; Database of 324,682 works in their collection with images
Museum der Moderne Salzburg (Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg): Database of some works in their collection with images
Salzburger Landessammlungen (Salzburg Provincial Collections): Provenance research page; Database of some of their works in their collection with images
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck (State Museum of Tyrol, Innsbruck): https://www.tiroler-landesmuseen.at/forschung/provenienzforschung/, and four pdfs to be downloaded:
Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum (State Museum of Upper Austria, Linz): Provenance research page including a list of 19 works with unknown provenance; Provenienzforschung Sammlung Walther Kastner (Provenance Research Walther Kastner Collection – a collection of 1400 works (paintings, sculptures, coins, Japanese woodprints, prints and drawings): Erster Zwischenbericht 13.10.2010 (First interim report, dated 13 October 2010), Zweiter Zwischenbericht 12.3.2014 (Second interim report, dated 12 March 2014) and Bisherige Restitutionen im OÖ. Landesmuseum (previous restitutions at the Landesmuseum of Upper Austria from 2000-2017)
Universalmuseum Joanneum Graz: Restitution Page and Restitutionsbericht (Works identified from 1999-2010 and restituted)
Wien Museum: Provenance research page with five pdfs of works acquired by the museum between 1940 and later, listed below; also Database of 46,486 works in their collection with images
Belgium:
All listings are of works returned to Belgium after the war. They numbered 78 in total and are today in 11 public institutions. Only 6 of the 11 have published the works they hold (June 2021):
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp): Provenance research page (in Dutch only) listing 21 paintings by the following artists: The beach of Scheveningen by Cornelis Beelt, Landscape with skaters by Adam van Breen, Portrait of a Man and Eva by Lucas Cranach ll, Madonna by Jan Gossaert, Landscape by Jan van Goyen, Triumphal arch in Venice by Francesco Guardi, The card game and The tea hour by Jan Josef Horemans ll, The fruit seller by Jacob Jordaens l, Saint Dorothea of Caesarea in a wreath of flowers by Phillippe de Marlier, Man of sorrows by Master of Saint Veronica, Holy family by Jan Massijs, Singing man by Adriaen van Ostade, Madonna with saints by Pier Francesco Fiorentino, Paradise of the birds by Roelant Savery, The judgement of Paris by Joachim Wtewael, Annunciation and Conversion of Paul by South Netherlandish Master, Vanitas by Jan Denens and Still life by Jan Foppens van Es, all returned to Belgium after the war.
Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique Brussels (Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium): Cultural Goods World War ll Database: 24 works of art listed, all returned to Belgium after the war and 21 of which went through the MCCP; also Database of some works in their collection with images
Rubenshuis Antwerp (Rubens House Antwerp): War Art in the Collection page (in Dutch only) listing 8 paintings returned to Belgium after the war: Portrait of a man former attributed to Cornelis de Vos, Wreath of fruits with Our Lady in grisaille by Frans Snijders, Landscape with cows by Lucas van Uden, Pastoral by Jan Wildens and Victor ll Wolfvoet, The Lamentation, The Commission in the temple, Neptune and Amphitrite, and Moses and his Ethiopian wife Seporah by Jacob Jordaens
Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gent (Museum of Fine Arts Ghent): Provenance research page listing five paintings with images - Carrying the Cross by Monogrammist DR, Village Lawyer after Pieter ll Breughel, 1621, Landscape with a farmhouse by Pieter de Bloot, and Feast of St George by Gillis l Mostaert, all returned to Belgium after the war.
M-Museum Leuven: Provenance research page listing one painting, Legend of St Quentin by anonymous South Netherlandish painter, previously attributed to Jan ll Van Rillaer and Bernard Van Orley, returned to Belgium via MCCP after the war
Museum Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen: Provenance research page (in Dutch only) listing one painting, Adoration of the shepherds by Pieter Coecke van Aelst, returned to Belgium after the war
Canada:
Artefacts Canada: Database of Canadian museums with more than 4 million painting and object records and more than 1 million images
Art Gallery of Ontario: Spoliation research page, including a list of 52 works with gaps in their provenance; also Database of 95,000 works in their collection with images
Beaverbrook Art Gallery: Spoliation research page, including a list of 15 paintings with images with gaps in their provenance
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Provenance research page, including a list of 109 works with images with gaps in their provenance; also Database of 6,288 works in their collection with images
National Gallery of Canada: Provenance research page with an image gallery of paintings with incomplete provenance; also Database of 96,886 works in their collection with images
Vancouver Art Gallery: Research page with a with a list of seven artworks in the collection with missing provenance from 1933-1945
Czech Republic:
Moravská galerie v Brně (Moravian Gallery in Brno): Database of 196,976 objects in their collection with images
Národní galerie v Praze (National Gallery in Prague): Database of 3,511 works in their collection with images
Denmark:
Ribe Kunstmuseum: Database of the entire collection of 1,444 works of Danish art from 1750 to 1950:
Finland:
Ateneum Art Museum Helsinki, part of the Finish National Gallery: Provenance research page with a list of works with gaps in their provenance; also Database of the Finnish National Museums with 43,432 works with images
Kansallisgalleria (Finnish National Gallery): Database of 74,550 works of five Finnish Art Museums (Ateneum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sinebrychoff Art Museum, the Finnish National Gallery’s Collections and State Art Commission) with images
Finna: Database of Finnish archives, libraries and 64 museums with 16,075,521 records
France:
Musée du Louvre (The Louvre): Database of the entire collection of 480,000 works with images including the MNR works (overview at collections.louvre.fr); also the Louvre Department of Prints and Drawings (Musée du Louvre Département des arts graphiques) Database of 250,000 drawings and graphic works in their collection with images
Palais des Beaux Arts (Palace of Fine Arts) Lille: Database of 4,262 works in their collection with images
Musée d’Orsay: Database of some works in their collection with images
Germany:
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Paintings Collections): Provenance research page including documents on restituted objects; also Database of 25,000 works in their collection with images
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums): Provenance research page with details on completed and ongoing research projects; also Database of 180,000 from 15 institutions with images
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Collections): Provenance research page, including 209 works with images which are listed in ‘Rechercheobjekte NS-Kontext’ (Research object Nazi context), 96 works with images listed in ‘Rechercheobjekte aus der ‘Schlossbergung’ ‘(Research objects ‘Castle Recovery’), 405 works with images listed in ‘Rechercheobjekte mit ungeklärter Herkunft’ (Research objects with unknown origin), 342 works with images listed in ‘Restitutionen’ (Restitutions), 534 works with images listed in ‘Vermisste Werke’ (Missing works); also Database of 247,867 of 1,263,518 artworks in their collection with images
Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg: Provenance research page; also Database of 83,151 objects in their collection with 74,624 images
Kunsthalle Bremen: Provenance research page; also Database of all works in their collection acquired before 2014 with images
Kunsthalle Hamburg: Provenance research page, including the pdf Restitutionen seit 2000 (a pdf of restituted works from 2000 to 2015) and a section with searchable details of 51 artworks with unclear provenance; also Database of 50,568 works in their collection with images
Kunsthalle Karlsruhe: Provenance research page; also Database of 7,974 objects in their collection with images
Kunsthalle Kiel: Provenance research page, also 301-page searchable dossier with full results of provenance research into 85 paintings and 9 sculptures
Kulturelles Erbe Köln (Cologne Cultural Heritage): Database of works in all Cologne museums and public collections with images
Staatliches Museum Schwerin (State Museum Schwerin): Provenance research page, including ‘Verzeichnis der Erwerbung und Überweisungen des Mecklenburgischen Landesmuseums von 1933 bis 1945’ (a 18-page list of works with unknown provenance which entered their collection between 1933 and 1945) and ‘Verzeichnis der nach 1945 dem Staatlichen Museum Schwerin zugekommene herrenlosen bzw. enteigneten Gemälden und Plastiken’ (a 61-page list of works with unknown provenance which entered their collection after 1945); also BPK-bildagentur lists 1,636 artworks in the museum collection with images.
Ireland:
Hunt Museum Limerick: Provenance papers page; also Database of some works in their collection with images
National Gallery of Ireland: Provenance research page; also Database of 13,500 works in their collection with images
Israel:
Israel Museum Jerusalem: Provenance research page; also World War II Provenance Research Online; also The Stieglitz Collection: Masterpieces of Jewish Art; also Database of some objects in their collection with images
Luxembourg:
Musée Nationale d’Histoire et d’Art Luxembourg: Database of 230 works in their collection with images
Italy:
Accademia Carrara (Carrara Academy), Bergamo: Database of 1,566 artworks in their collection with images
Collezione Peggy Guggenheim (Peggy Guggenheim Collection), Venice: Database of some objects in their collection with images
Galleria Borghese (Borghese Gallery), Rome: Database of 504 artworks in their collection with images
Musei Reali (Royal Museums), Turin: Database of some works in their collection with images:
Netherlands:
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: Provenance research page, including a report on the provenance research into the collection of Dr Fritz Mannheimer: also Database of 640,133 works in their collection with images
Norway:
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK): List of 18 works in their collection with unknown provenance
Poland:
Muzeum Narodowe w Warzawie (National Museum of Warsaw): Database of 59,589 objects in their collection with images
Slovakia:
Umenia: Database of 144,140 works of artworks from the collections of Slovak galleries registered in the Central Register of Artworks.
Spain:
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao (Bilbao Fine Arts Museum): Database of 3,266 works in their collection with images
Prado Museum, Madrid: Database of 6,063 works in their collection with images
Switzerland:
Kunstmuseum Basel: Provenance research page, including Final report and list of works of their Project Provenance Research 2016-2018; also Database of 5,000 works in their collection with images, including 380 works under provenance investigation
UK:
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology: Provenance research page; and Database of 191,500 of 250,000 objects in their collection with images
ArtUK: Database of 200,000 oil paintings, watercolours and works on paper in UK public and private collections
British Museum: Wartime provenance page, including a 590-page list of continental drawings with uncertain 1933-1945 provenance and a 1,105-page list of list of British drawings with uncertain 1933-1945 provenance
V&A Museum: Database of 1,238,112 works in their collection with 751,366 with images
USA:
Art Institute of Chicago: Provenance research page; also Database of works in their collection with images
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University: Provenance research page; also Database of more than 38,000 works in their collection with images
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia: Provenance research page; also Database of 30,259 works in their collection with images
Cleveland Museum of Art: Nazi-Era Provenance page and 471 works with incomplete provenance; also Database of works in their collection with images
Detroit Institute of Arts: Provenance research page; also Database of some works in their collection with images
Getty Provenance Index Database: Database including descriptions and provenance of works of art 1500-1990 in UK and US public collections
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at the Indiana University: Provenance research page, including works with incomplete provenance; also Database of works in their collection with images
Indianapolis Museum of Art: World War II-era Provenance research page, and World War II-era Provenance Research Database; also Database of 25,768 works in their collection with images:
Jewish Museum, New York: Provenance research page, including List of works which are included in the Nazi-Era Provenance Research Project; also Database of some works in their collection with images
Joslyn Art Museum: Provenance research page, including a 9-page searchable list of works with unknown provenance
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Provenance research project page and Provenance Research Project Database; also Database of 457,000 works in their collection with images
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Nazi-Era Provenance Research page, including a list of works currently under investigation; also Database of some works in their collection with images
Museum of Modern Art, New York: Provenance research page and List of works included in the Provenance Research Project; also Database of 89,000 works in their collection with images
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC:WWII research page; also Database of 51,000 images of works in their collection with images
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Provenance research page and works with incomplete provenance between 1932 and 1946; also Database of 143,380 of over 240,000 works in their collection with images:
St Louis Art Museum: Provenance research page; also Database of over 5,499 of 34,000 works in their collection with images
Seattle Art Museum: Database of works in their collection with images and 66 objects with gaps in their provenance or unknown provenance
Smithsonian:Provenance research page; also Database of 10 million works online with images
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art: Provenance research page, and Database of 24 works included in the 'Provenance Project'; also Database of 54,448 works in their collection some with images
Toledo Museum of Art: Provenance and repatriation research page, including expandable sections ‘New Acquisitions’ and ‘Existing Collection’ listing works with incomplete provenance; also Database of 25,000 works in their collection with images
The Leiden Collection, New York: Online catalogue of a private collection in New York, with more than 175 paintings and drawings
4. LIBRARIES WITH ONGOING PROVENANCE RESEARCH OR WITH PROVENANCE INFORMATION ON BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Austria:
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library): Provenance research page; also entries on Kunstrestitution.at: 3,335 items: https://www.kunstdatenbank.at/objekt-suche/museum/10
Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Wien (Vienna University Library): Provenance research page; also entries on Kunstrestitution: 32 items: https://www.kunstdatenbank.at/objekt-suche/museum/14
Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek (Vienna City Library): Provenance research page; also entries on Kunstrestitution.at: 2,612 items: https://www.kunstdatenbank.at/objekt-suche/museum/15; also entries on Lostart.de: 50 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/537678;12 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/537679; 53 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/537751
Czech Republic:
Židovské muzeum v Praze (Jewish Museum Prague): Provenance research page
Germany:
Germany: Looted Cultural Assets: https://lootedculturalassets.de/
A joint project of the following libraries: Badische Landesbibliothek (BLB) Karlsruhe, Bibliothek
der Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum, Heidelberg: Hochschule für Jüdische
Studien, Bibliothek Albert Einstein, Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden Hamburg,
Stadtbibliothek Hannover, Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin,
Universitätsbibliothek Potsdam, Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (all individually listed below)
Germany Individual Libraries:
Stadtbibliothek Bautzen (Municipal Library Bautzen): Provenance research page; also entries on Lostart.de: 659 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/538107
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Bibliothek (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities): Provenance research page;also entries on Lostart.de: 1,235 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/538396
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Universitätsbibliothek (University Library of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Provenance research page; also entry on Lostart.de: 1 item: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/538943
Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum (New Synagogue Berlin - Jewish Center): Provenance research page; also entries on Lostart.de: 634 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/537521; also 14 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/538762
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation / State library Berlin): Provenance research page; also entries on Lostart.de: 6,879 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/539451
Technische Universität Berlin / Universitätsbibliothek (University Library Technical University Berlin): Provenance research page; also entries on Lostart.de: 784 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/538272
Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (ZLB) (Berlin Central & Regional Library): Provenance research page 1 and Provenance research page 2; also entries on Lostart.de:
Also entries on Lootedculturalassets.de: 9, 915 items: https://lootedculturalassets.de/index.php
/MultiSearch/Index?search=Zentral-+und+Landesbibliothek+Berlin
Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin - Stabsstelle NS-Raub- und Beutegut (University Library, Free University Berlin - Nazi Looted Assets and War Plunder section –: Provenance research page; also entries on Lootedculturalassets.de: 6,747 items: https://lootedculturalassets.de/index.php/Search/objects/search/Freie+Universit%C3%A4t+Berlin
Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften der Universität Bonn (Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies): Website; also entries on Lostart.de: 2 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/539104
Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum (Braunschweig State Museum): Provenance research page also entry on Lostart.de:1 item: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/584945
Universitätsbibliothek der TU Braunschweig (University Library of the Technical University Braunschweig): Website; also entries on Lostart.de: 3 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/537882
Kunsthalle Bremen (Kunsthalle Bremen): Provenance research page ; also entries on Lostart.de: 8 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/539201
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen (State and University Library Bremen): Provenance research page; also entries on Lostart.de: 2,866 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/538313
Stadtarchiv Bremerhaven (Municipal Archive Bremerhaven): Website; also entries on Lostart.de: 12 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/572450
Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln (University and Municipal Library Cologne): Provenance research page; also entries on Lostart.de: 689 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/537554
Anhaltische Landesbücherei (Anhalt State Library) Dessau-Roßlau: Website; also entries on Lostart.de: 14 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/537914
Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, SLUB (Saxon State and University Library Dresden): Provenance research page; also entries on Lostart.de:
Stadtmuseum Dresden (Municipal Museum Dresden): Website; also entry on Lostart.de: 1 item: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/585234
Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main (University Library Frankfurt am Main): Website; also entry on Lostart.de: 1 item: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/538653
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Justus Liebig University Gießen): Website; also entries on Lostart.de: 879 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/538545
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (Göttingen State and University Library): Provenance research page; also entries on Lostart.de: 1,122 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/537995
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg / Universitäts-und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg/ University and National Library Saxony-Anhalt) Halle (Saale): Website; also entries on Lostart.de: 1 item: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/576666
Hochschule für Musik und Theater (Hamburg University of Music and Theatre): Website also entry on Lostart.de: 1 item: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/539335
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky (Carl von Ossietzky Hamburg State and University Library): Provenance research page ; also entries on Lostart.de: 2,613 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/539823 ; also entries on Lootedculturalassets.de: 5 items: https://lootedculturalassets.de/index.php/MultiSearch/Index?search=Staats-+und+Universit%C3%A4tsbibliothek+Hamburg+
Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden (Institute for the History of the Jews of Germany) Hamburg: Provenance research page; also entries on Lootedculturalassets.de: 163 items: https://lootedculturalassets.de/index.php/MultiSearch/Index?search=Institut+f%C3%BCr+die+Geschichte+der+deutschen+Juden
Stadtbibliothek Hannover - Provenienzforschung (Municipal Library Hanover - Provenance research): Provenance research page; also entries on Lootedculturalassets.de: 530 items: https://lootedculturalassets.de/index.php/MultiSearch/Index?search=Stadtbibliothek+Hannover
Hochschule für Jüdische Studien in Heidelberg (University of Jewish Studies Heidelberg): Provenance research page: also entries on Lootedculturalassets.de: 446 items: https://lootedculturalassets.de/index.php/MultiSearch/Index?search=HOCHSCHULE+F%C3%9CR+J%C3%9CDISCHE+STUDIEN
Badische Landesbibliothek (Baden State Library) Karlsruhe: Provenance research page: ; also entries on Lostart.de: 37 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/585833; also entries on Lootedculturalassets.de: 462 items: https://lootedculturalassets.de/index.php/MultiSearch/Index?search=BADISCHE+LANDESBIBLIOTHEK
Leibniz- Informationszentrum Wirtschaft - Provenienzforschung (Provenance Research – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics) Kiel: Provenance research page; also entries on Lostart.de: 2 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/586472
Universität Leipzig / Universitätsbibliothek 'Bibliotheca Albertina' (Leipzig University Library): Provenance research page; also entries on Lostart.de: 1,503 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/538693
Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig - NS-Raubgut an der (Nazi Looted Assets at the University Library Leipzig): Provenance research page; also entries on Lostart.de: 575 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/579584
Stadt- und Regionalmuseum im Schloss zu Lübben (Municipal and Regional Museum in Lübben Castle): Website; also entries on Lostart.de: 13 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/567264
Landeshauptarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt (State Archives of Saxony-Anhalt) Magdeburg: Website; also entry on Lostart.de: 1 item: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/538989
Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (German Literature Archive Marbach): Website; also entries on Lostart.de: 8 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/582255
Universitätsbibliothek Marburg (University Library Marburg): Provenance research page; also entries on Lostart.de: 94 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/537744
Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung - Institut der Leibnitz-Gemeinschaft (Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe - Institute of the Leibniz Association) Marburg: Website; also entries on Lostart.de: 2,067 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/587162
Generaldirektion der Staatlichen Archive Bayerns (Bavarian State Archives) Munich: Website; also entry on Lostart.de: 1 item: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/583871
Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History) Munich: Website; also entries on Lostart.de: 10 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/538065
NS-Raubgutforschung an der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (Nazi Looted Assets Research at the Bavarian State Library) Munich: Provenance research page; Entries in the Library’s online catalogue: 126,931 items: https://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/metaopac/search?View=default&q=BSB-Provenienz
Diözesanbibliothek Münster (Diocesan Library of Münster): Provenance research page; also entry on Lostart.de: 1 item: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/586455
Museum Nienburg (Nienburg Museum): Website;also entry on Lostart.de:1 item: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/536009
Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg (Municipal Library Nuremberg): Provenance research page; also entries on Lostart.de: 1,990 items (Sammlung Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (IKG) (vormals "Stürmer"-Bibliothek / Sl. Julius Streicher (Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (IKG) Collection (formerly the Stürmer Library / Julius Streicher collection)): http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/537947; 3 items (Bücher (books): http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/539109
Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien (Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies) Potsdam: Website: ; also entries on Lostart.de: 2 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/538294
Potsdam-Museum - Forum für Kunst und Geschichte (Potsdam Museum - Forum for Art and History): Provenance research page; alse entries on Lostart.de: 467 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/538188
Stadt- und Landesbibliothek Potsdam (Municipal and State Library Potsdam): Website; also entries on Lostart.de: 183 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/539045
Universitätsbibliothek Potsdam (University Library Potsdam): Provenance research page; also entries on Lostart.de: 3 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/539400; also entries on Lootedculturalassets.de: 1,107 items: https://lootedculturalassets.de/index.php/MultiSearch/Index?search=Universit%C3%A4tsbibliothek+Potsdam
Universitätsbibliothek Rostock Suche nach NS-Raubgut an der (Search for Nazi Looted Assets at the Rostock University Library): Provenance research page; Entries in the Rostock University Library (Projekt NS Raubgut): 8,786 entries: http://opac.lbs-rostock.gbv.de/DB=1/SET=2/TTL=7/MAT=/NOMAT=T/REL?PPN=797228187
Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz (State Library Rhineland-Pfalz), Speyer: Website; Provenance research page; also entries on Lostart.de:
Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen (University Library Tübingen): Website; also entries on Lostart.de: 1 item: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/539485
Dokumentationszentrum Oberer Kuhberg Ulm e.V. (Oberer Kuhberg Documentation Centre Ulm): Website; also entry on Lostart.de: 1 item: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/584895
Klassik Stiftung Weimar (Klassik Stiftung Weimar): Provenance research page 1 and 2; also entries on Lostart.de:Direktion Museen (Directorate of Museums) 1 item: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/539491; Goethe- und Schiller- Archiv (Goethe and Schiller Archive) 3 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/535982; Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek (Duchess Anna Amalia Library) 2,416 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/539293
Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart (Württemberg State Library): Provenance research page; also entries on Lostart.de: 1408 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/567306
Israel:
Israel Museum (Israel Museum): Provenance research page; also entries on Lostart.de: 9 items: http://www.lostart.de/EN/Fund/572496
Russia:
Vserossiiskaya Gosudarstevennaya Biblioteka Inostrannoi Lituratura- VGBIL (M. I. Rudomino All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature Vserossiiskaya Gosudarstevennaya) Moscow: Website
5. RESOURCES FOR CLAIMANTS
Austria: The Commission for Provenance Research (Kommission für Provenienzforschung)
Austria: The Holocaust Victims’ Information and Support Center (HVISC)
Czech Republic: Documentation Center of Property Transfers of World War ll Victims
France: Commission pour l’Indemnisation des Victimes de Spoliations (The Commission for the Compensation of Victims of Spoliation, CIVS)
Germany: Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste (Coordination Office for Lost Cultural Assets)
International: International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural Property
United Kingdom: Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945
United Kingdom: Central Office for Holocaust Claims
United Kingdom: Cultural Property Advice
United Kingdom: Art Loss Register
USA: Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany
USA: Commission for Art Recovery of the World Jewish Congress
6. NATIONAL CLAIMS PROCESSES
In 2019 the five committees published a 'Guide to the Work of the Committees: Five ways of resolving claims'. This is available here.
Austria: Commission for Provenance Research and Art Restitution Advisory Board
France: CIVS - Commission for the compensation of victims of spoliation resulting from the anti-semitic legislation in force during the Occupation
Germany: German Advisory Commission (Contact through Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste Coordination Office for Lost Cultural Assets)
The Netherlands: Adviescommissie Restitutieverzoeken Cultuurgoederen en Tweede Wereldoorlog (The Advisory Committee on the Assessment of Restitution Applications for Items of Cultural Value and the Second World War)
United Kingdom: Spoliation Advisory Panel
7. RESEARCH RESOURCES
The Central Registry provides a comprehensive online database of international research and archival resources together with an extensive news archive. Please visit www.lootedart.com.
To receive the weekly Looted Art Newsletter with the latest international news stories about Nazi-looted cultural property, details of exhibitions and conferences and developments in research resources, click here.
International Resources
International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-era Cultural Property -
The Portal links researchers to archival materials at 22 participating institutions in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the Ukraine and the USA
National Resources
Austria: Austrian State Archives (Österreichisches Staatsarchiv)
Austria: City of Vienna Archive (Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv)
Austria: Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (Dokumentationsarchivs des österreichischen Widerstandes)
Austria: Findbuch for Victims of National Socialism - pre and post-war expropriation and restitution records on thousands of Austrians persecuted by the Nazis
Israel: Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority
USA: National Archives - Holocaust Era Assets
USA: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
8. INSTITUTIONAL GUIDELINES
United Kingdom: National Museums Statement of Principles and Proposed Actions 1998
USA: American Museum Association Guidelines Concerning the Unlawful Appropriation of Objects During the Nazi Era 1998
USA: Art Dealers Association of America Guidelines Regarding Art Looted During The Nazi Era