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Showing posts with label Prague. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prague. Show all posts
01 July 2013

In praise of future collaborative endeavors through provenance research training workshops

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Preparations are currently under way to organize a third provenance research training workshop (the first two were in Magdeburg, Germany...
03 December 2012

Funeral for the idea of a US Commission on Looted Art at the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, on November 27, 2012

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Absurdity funeral, Francisco Goya Source: Wikipaintings No one likes to be the bearer of bad news. US Special Envoy for Holocaust Issu...
01 November 2011

Confessions of an art looting “expert” (II)

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Here’s a question:  How did I get here? Well, I will do my best to answer this impudent query of mine. Main Gate at Birkenau Source...
07 August 2011

Krakow (May 2009), Prague (June 2009), and beyond (2009-2011): Anything new?

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In mid-May 2009, a dozen individuals from the United States and Europe, mostly lawyers, one historian, and several representatives of the ar...
31 July 2011

Heirless Jewish property and treasure hunting in the Czech Republic

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Ever since the end of the Second World War, politicians, diplomats, officials and bureaucrats in leading international Jewish organizations,...
02 June 2011

Training the current and next generations of provenance art research specialists

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by Marc Masurovsky The most important aspect of any inquiry into looted works and objects of art lies in the quality of the research require...
30 May 2011

Analysis of an address by Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat at Prague in June 2009

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On June 27, 2009, US Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat spoke the following words to the assembled participants at the Prague Holocaust Era Asse...
09 April 2011

The Krakow Declaration, May 14, 2009, Krakow, Poland

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The Krakow Declaration was written by a group of independent historians, attorneys, and members of the art trade, from the United States and...