03 May 2011

An Interactive sneak peek at the schedule for May 6-7, 2011, World War II Provenance Research Seminar in Washington, DC

A New Era of Collaboration and Digitized Resources: 
World War II Provenance Research Seminar
May 6-7, 2011

United States National Archives
700 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
Washington, D.C. 20408-0002
(Please use the Special Events Entrance, 
Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th Streets, NW)

Friday, May 6

9:30 – 10:15 REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

MORNING SESSION: INTERNATIONAL PORTAL FOR NAZI-ERA CULTURAL PROPERTY RECORDS

10:15 – 11:15 WELCOME

James Hastings, United States National Archives, Washington, DC
Kaywin Feldman, Association of Art Museum Directors

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

Jim Leach, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC
Lynn H. Nicholas, Independent Scholar, Washington, DC

11:15 – 12:15 PRESENTATIONS

Rebecca Warlow, United States National Archives
Hans-Dieter Kreikamp, Federal Archives, Berlin
Anne Webber, Commission for Looted Art in Europe, London
Kyrylo Vyslobokov, Archival Information Systems, Kyiv

12:15 – 1:00 DISCUSSION MODERATED BY

Nancy H. Yeide, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Victoria Reed, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1:00 – 2:00 LUNCH ON YOUR OWN

AFTERNOON SESSION: INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES AND COOPERATIVE PROJECTS FOR NAZI-ERA CULTURAL PROPERTY RECORDS

2:15 – 3:00 PRESENTATIONS

Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Cambridge
Marc Masurovsky, Independent Historian, Washington, DC
Wolfgang Schöddert, Ferdinand Möller Archive, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

3:00 – 3:15 BREAK

3:15 – 4:00 PRESENTATIONS

Andrea Baresel-Brand, Coordination Office for Lost Cultural Assets, Magdeburg
Uwe Hartmann, Bureau for Provenance Investigation and Research, Berlin
Christian Fuhrmeister, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (Central Institute for Art History), Munich

4:00 – 4:30 DISCUSSION MODERATED BY

Jane Milosch, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Christian Fuhrmeister, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte

6:00 – 8:00 RECEPTION: FREER GALLERY OF ART, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

Please use the Jefferson Drive entrance, located at 12th Street SW

WELCOME

Richard Kurin, Office of the Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture, Smithsonian Institution
Julian Raby, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Saturday, May 7

10:00 – 10:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

MORNING SESSION: ARCHIVAL RESOURCES FOR PROVENANCE RESEARCH, PART I

10:30 – 10:45 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

Louisa Wood Ruby, The Frick Art Reference Library, New York

10:45 – 11:30 PRESENTATIONS

Jona Mooren, Nederlandse Museumvereniging (Netherlands Museums Association), Amsterdam, and Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (Netherlands Institute for Art History), The Hague
Marisa Bourgoin, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Michelle Elligott, Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

11:30 – 12:15 DISCUSSION MODERATED BY

Laurie Stein, Smithsonian Institution
Sarah Kianovsky, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge

12:15 – 1:30 LUNCH ON YOUR OWN

AFTERNOON SESSION: ARCHIVAL RESOURCES FOR PROVENANCE RESEARCH, PART II

1:45 – 2:30 PRESENTATIONS

Christian Huemer, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Megan Lewis, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Anneliese Schallmeiner, Commission for Provenance Research, Vienna

2:30 – 2:45 BREAK

2:45 – 3:30 NEW PROJECTS AND RESOURCES

Helen Schretlen, Nederlandse Museumvereniging
Dorota Chudzicka and David Hogge, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Nancy H. Yeide, Kress Collection Provenance Research Project, National Gallery of Art

3:30 – 4:15 DISCUSSION MODERATED BY

Nancy H. Yeide, National Gallery of Art
Laurie Stein, Smithsonian Institution

4:15 – 4:30 CONCLUDING REMARKS

Lynn H. Nicholas, Independent Scholar

The seminar is sponsored by the United States National Archives, the Association of Art Museum Directors, the American Association of Museums and the Smithsonian Institution, with additional support provided by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation and James P. Hayes.