Abstracts
Tuesday, 3 November
13:50–15:10, Sprengel Museum
Panel 1: Provenance Research and the Culture of Remembrance
16:00–17:00, Sprengel Museum
Panel 2: Current Shifts and Transformations in Provenance Research
The Transformative Role of Digital Databases for Provenance Research and Due Diligence
The Paradigm of Provenance Research Versus the Priority of Restitution: On the Current Shift in Fundamental Understandings of Restitution Claims
Commissioned research and / versus / or free fundamental basic research? Reflecting implications of dualistic and bipolar concepts
17:20–18:20, Sprengel Museum
Panel 3: Die Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit NS-Raubgut stellt sich vor (Introducing the Court of Arbitration for Nazi-Looted Cultural Property)
Infoveranstaltung mit der Schiedsstelle der Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit NS-Raubgut (Info session with the Service Desk of the Court of Arbitration for Nazi-Looted Cultural Property)
Wednesday, 4 November
09:30–10:50, Sprengel Museum
Panel 4: Problematische Bestände in musealen Sammlungen (Problematic Holdings in Museum Collections)
Dauerleihgaben an Museen: Herausforderung und Chance zugleich! (Permanent Loans to Museums: Challenge and Opportunity Alike!)
Flüchtigenrücklässe zu hunderten in Museen – Kulturgutentzug in der DDR (Hundreds of Possessions Left Behind by Refugees in Museums – The Seizure of Cultural Property in the GDR)
Translozierte Sammlung, fragmentierte Erinnerung: Die Sammlung Otto Krebs zwischen Deutschland und Russland (Relocated Collection, Fragmented Memory: The Otto Krebs Collection between Germany and Russia)
Geklärte Vermögensfragen? Die Unterlagen des LARoV Sachsen-Anhalt und ihre Bedeutung für Archive und Provenienzforschung (Resolved Questions of Property? The Records of the LARoV Saxony-Anhalt and their Significance for Archives and Provenance Research)
09:45–10:45, Museum August Kestner
Panel 5: Memorialization of Provenance Research
Not Looted, Just Hidden: Solving the Mystery of an "Anonymous" Collection
The virtual exhibition entitled »The Collection of Josef Pollák«
Die Zeugenschaft der Abwesenheit. Gezeigte Sammlungsleerstellen zwischen Provenienzforschung, Erinnerungskultur und Geschichtspolitik (The Testimony of Absence. Exhibited Gaps in Collections between Provenance Research, the Culture of Remembrance and the Politics of History)
10:00–11:00, Landesmuseum Hannover
Panel 6: Postcolonial Provenance Research: Frameworks in motion
09:30–10:50, ZeitZentrum Zivilcourage
Panel 7: Artificial Intelligence and Data-Driven Approaches
Art Worlds and Knowledge Graphs: Mobilizing Data-Driven Approaches and AI for Large-Scale Provenance Research
Martin Berger, Elizabeth Rodríguez Estrada, Gabriel Spautz Vieira & Ishak Riali
Discourse as Provenance: Fragments (and a Framework) for Understanding Descriptive Data in Provenance Studies
The Getty Provenance Index German Sales as a Large-Scale Language Resource
The Architecture of Provenance Research: Indexing, Modeling, and Algorithmic Training
11:30–12:30, Sprengel Museum
Panel 8: How to identify looted art in the Benelux countries and Switzerland
How Erhard Göpel purchased artworks in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France on behalf of the Sonderauftrag Linz
Women in the Jewish Art Trade during WWII: Dilemmas and Survival Strategies
Schweizer Zollstempel in der Provenienzforschung – Vorstellung eines Leitfadens (Swiss Customs Stamps in Provenance Research – Presenting a Guide)
11:25–12:25, Museum August Kestner
Panel 9: Der Kunstmarkt und das Auktionswesen in Deutschland in der NS-Zeit (The Art Market and the Auction Business in Germany during the Nazi Era)
Die Handexemplare der Galerie Hugo Helbing: Erschließung und Nutzbarmachung der Auktionskataloge für die Forschung zu Akteuren (The Annotated Copies of the Galerie Hugo Helbing: Indexing the Auction Catalogues and Making Them Usable for Research on Actors)
Auktionen in Berlin 1933 bis 1945. Synergien der Kunstmarktforschung: Sammlungsübergreifende Provenienzforschung zu Auktionserwerbungen und Dechiffrierung von Einlieferungen (Auctions in Berlin 1933 to 1945. Synergies in Art Market Research: Cross-Collection Provenance Research on Auction Acquisitions and the Deciphering of Consignments)
Der Berliner Münzhandel in der Zeit von 1933 bis 1945 (The Berlin Coin Trade from 1933 to 1945)
11:30–12:30, Landesmuseum Hannover
Panel 10: Provenance Research in Natural History Collections
11:40–12:45, ZeitZentrum Zivilcourage
Workshop 1
Die Provenienzforschung zukunftssicher machen: Erarbeitung von Strategien gegen rechte Kulturpolitik – Initiative Provenienzforschung stärken! (Making Provenance Research Future-Proof: Developing Strategies Against Right-Wing Cultural Politics – Initiative Provenienzforschung stärken!)
Initiative Provenienzforschung stärken! (Strengthening Provenance Research), Fenya Almstadt, Stella Baßenhoff & Anna-Jo WeierWorkshop
14:30–15:50, Sprengel Museum
Panel 11: Making Use of Data
Uncovering Hidden Trajectories: AI-Assisted Provenance Research of Post-WWII Acquisitions at the National Museum in Poznań
The Alternative Gaze: Reflecting on Interdisciplinary Provenance Research Tools through the Case Study of the Fascist Modern Art Market at the Venice Biennale
Networks of Impressionism: A Collaborative Digital Platform for Expanding International Provenance Research
Die Sammlung als Baustelle: Provenienzforschung im digitalen Dauerbetrieb (»The Collection as a Building Site: Provenance Research in Continuous Digital Operation«)
14:45–15:45, Museum August Kestner
Panel 12: Translokationen in Mittel- und Osteuropa (Translocations in Central and Eastern Europe)
Erinnerung kartieren. NS-Kunstraub, Verantwortung und die politische Dimension der Provenienzforschung (Mapping Memory. Nazi Art Looting, Responsibility and the Political Dimension of Provenance Research)
Post-Socialist State Losses and the Legal Relevance of Interdisciplinary Provenance Evidence
Rethinking Provenance Research: A New Opportunity of Cultural Collaboration between Germany and Lithuania
14:45–15:45, Landesmuseum Hannover
Panel 13: Postcolonial Provenance Research: Recent Projects
Provenance beyond the Single Object: Comparative, Transnational, and Postcolonial Research on Indonesian Collections in Lower Saxony
A Māori flute made from Tibetan human remains: On global entanglements and reinterpretations
Whose Data, Whose Pasts? Community Perspectives on a Digital Provenance Database for Collections from Colonial Contexts
14:45–15:45, ZeitZentrum Zivilcourage
Panel 14: Erinnerungskultur und Rückgabefragen im historischen Wandel (Culture of Remembrance and Questions of Return in Historical Change)
Vom Grabungsfund zur Rückgabefrage. Argumentationsmuster zur Rückgabe der Nofretete im historischen Wandel (From Excavation Find to Question of Return. Patterns of Argument on the Restitution of Nefertiti in Historical Change)
Warum der deutsche Staat Provenienzforschung fördert – die erinnerungspolitischen Funktionen der Aufarbeitung von Kunst- und Kulturgüterentzug (Why the German State Funds Provenance Research – The Memory-Political Functions of Addressing the Dispossession of Art and Cultural Property)
Chancen und Herausforderungen für die Erinnerungskultur am Beispiel einer Buchrückgabe (Opportunities and Challenges for the Culture of Remembrance, Illustrated by the Restitution of a Book)
16:25–17:45, Sprengel Museum
Panel 15: Provenienzforschung im heutigen Kunsthandel und Auktionswesen (Provenance Research in Today's Art Trade and Auction Business)
Max Klingers „Entwurf zum Beethoventhron“ aus der Sammlung Nachod. Die Suche nach einer gütlichen Einigung zwischen Handel, Erb:innen und dem Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (Max Klinger's “Design for the Beethoven Throne” from the Nachod Collection. The Search for an Amicable Settlement between the Art Trade, the Heirs and the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig)
Die Sammlungen von Tilla Durieux sowie Ludwig und Estella Katzenellenbogen. Mehrfachverfolgung, Besitzwechsel und die Herausforderung differenzierter Bewertung (The Collections of Tilla Durieux and of Ludwig and Estella Katzenellenbogen. Multiple Persecution, Changes of Ownership and the Challenge of Differentiated Assessment)
Gesprächsrunde zum heutigen Kunsthandel (Zusammenfassung: Christian Fuhrmeister) (Panel Discussion on Today's Art Trade (Summary: Christian Fuhrmeister))
AG Art Trade, Nadine Bauer, David Bassenge, Amelie Ebbinghaus, Christina Feilchenfeldt, Anna-Sophie Hollenders & Nina SengerReport
16:20–17:40, Museum August Kestner
Panel 16: The Materiality of the Objects
Looted Films: Integrating Cinema into Provenance Research
Provenance Research on Musical Instruments: Specific Conditions, Aims, and Obstacles of an Emerging Field
AG Musik (Music)Report
Reading Objects with AI: Challenges and Potentials of AI-Based Tools in Provenance Research at the German Ivory Museum
Von der Materialanalyse zur Provenienzrecherche – Eine Fallstudie mit Ming-zeitlichen Banknoten aus der Sammlung der Deutschen Bundesbank (From Material Analysis to Provenance Research – A Case Study of Ming-Era Banknotes from the Collection of the Deutsche Bundesbank)
16:25–17:30, Landesmuseum Hannover
Workshop 2
Kontinuitäten und Brüche: Über Gewaltopfer in öffentlichen Sammlungen. Kontextübergreifende Überlegungen zum Stand der Provenienzforschung an menschlichen Überresten – Expert*innen-Netzwerk zum Umgang mit menschlichen Überresten (Continuities and Ruptures: On Victims of Violence in Public Collections. Cross-Contextual Reflections on the State of Provenance Research on Human Remains – Expert Network on the Handling of Human Remains)
Thursday, 5 November
09:30–10:30, Sprengel Museum
Panel 17: The Potential of Arbeitskreis Länder Working Groups to Enhance Cross-Border Exchanges
Reports from the working groups Belgium and Luxemburg, France, Italy, Netherlands of the Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V. and Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung Switzerland e.V. and Collectif pluridisciplinaire de recherche de provenances followed by a joint discussion with Fenya Almstadt, Gitta Ho, Katharina Hüls-Valenti, Constance Jame, Sarah-Mae Lieverse, Joachim Sieber, Yasmina Zian
AG Belgium-Luxembourg, AG France, AG Italy, AG Netherlands, AG Switzerland / Swiss Association for Provenance Research (SAP), CPRP – Collectif pluridisciplinaire de recherche de provenances, Fenya Almstadt, Gitta Ho, Katharina Hüls-Valenti, Constance Jame, Sarah-Mae Lieverse, Joachim Sieber & Yasmina ZianReport
12:00–13:00, Sprengel Museum
Panel 19: Internationale rechtliche Entwicklungen (International Legal Developments)
The Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act
Restitution Law and Practice, Recent Developments
Recht als Forschungsauftrag: Provenienzforschung nach dem österreichischen Kunstrückgabegesetz (Law as a Research Mandate: Provenance Research under the Austrian Art Restitution Act)
Reframing Restitution: Legal Developments and Practical Implementation in Italy