Veranstaltungen am Tag der Provenienzforschung – Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung

The first events for the Provenance Research Day 2026 have been published online!

👉 Registration open until April 8, 2026
👉 For inclusion in the press release: deadline March 31, 2026

www.arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung.org/veranstaltun...

#ProvenanceResearch #TdP2026

📚 With five volumes, it was a comparatively small restitution. What made the occasion exceptional was that this marked the first time the University Library Frankfurt returned books to Frankfurt’s Jewish Community.

🔗 aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/univ...

#ProvenanceResearch

Provenance research needs RAG infrastructures with a human-in-the-loop to ensure scalability, interpretability, and ethical sensitivity.
This paper shows how RAG enables multilingual search in the Getty Provenance Index.

arxiv.org/abs/2508.19093

#DigitalHumanities #ProvenanceResearch #RAG

Arnold Böcklin: Summer Day, 1881. Provenance Max Neumann, Berlin; 1902 als Geschenk von Karl August Lingner aus Dresden an die Dresdner Gemäldegalerie ("Frau Neumann, Berlin"; Erwerbung "Geschenk des Kommerzienrath Lingner").

#otd 1943 Berlin artist Alice Neumann died at the Jewish Hospital.
The family's art collection was subject of our #provenanceresearch project. The outcome is published on our website www.factsandfiles.com/en/projects/...

#geschichte #historiker #archive #forschung #history #archives #research

Bookplate (Ex Libris), Trude Weil and Curt Schülein, undated. © Schülein Family Archive

Findings of our #provenanceresearch project on the Schülein Art Collection online! www.factsandfiles.com/en/projects/...

New project 🎨🧐

We started our #provenanceresearch on the art collections of Abraham and Erich Freundlich and Dr. Otto Markus, Düsseldorf.
Abraham Freundlich founded one of the leading companies of refrigeration technology.
More information here www.factsandfiles.com/en/projects/...

David und Lola Leder mit Cousin Carl Leder und Erich Goeritz, undatiert. Privat.

New project! 🧐🎨
The project on the Leder art collection will continue our research, esp. on whereabouts of objects. It will focus on the auction at Amsler & Ruthardt, artworks transferred to Erich Goeritz, & confiscated art from liftvans. www.factsandfiles.com/en/projects/... #provenanceresearch

The Museum of Rescued Art in the Octagonal Hall of the Baths of Diocletian: exhibiting stories of art looting and restitution Facing piazza della Repubblica, the Octagonal Hall of the Baths of Diocletian is the seat of the Museum of Rescued Art (Museo dell'Arte Salvata), conceived to showcase periodically changing artworks s...

New on #MilestoneRome Art and Culture journal! The Museum of Rescued Art in the Octagonal Hall of the Baths of Diocletian in #Rome: exhibiting stories of art looting and restitution. Learn more on our journal: www.milestonerome.com/2026/01/the-... #ProvenanceResearch #ArtLooting #CulturalRestitution

#CallForPapers #ArtMarkets #CulturalEconomics #EconomicHistory #ArtHistory #GlobalArtHistory #ProvenanceResearch #PostcolonialStudies #CulturalHeritage #JournalOfCulturalEconomics #AcademicPublishing
(7/7)

Fancy #Mozart and some #archive pics? We've got you covered! 😁 Watch our 2025 dump on Instagram
www.instagram.com/reel/DSZaltc...

We wish you Happy Holidays and a peaceful new year 2026!

#archivhimmel #history #historians #factsandfiles #provenanceresearch #citizenscience #museum #collection

Category:Provenance marks - Wikimedia Commons

Feel free to add categories! commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Provenance...

#call4edits #ProvenanceResearch #plw2024

What happened to 60,000 Jewish books looted by the Nazis?

🎧 Listen here (from 44:35): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2025/09...

#LibraryOfLostBooks #LeoBaeckInstitute #CulturalRestitution #HolocaustStudies #JewishHistory #ProvenanceResearch @leobaeckjeru.bsky.social

Original post on det.social

Workshop: Coding Provenance – Computational Methods for Tracing Object Histories
Lüneburg, Dec 18–21, 2025
Hands-on training in AI, data modeling, and critical reflection on provenance methodologies
Open to provenance scholars, museum professionals, and researchers in the humanities

Application […]

Digital International Network Meeting | Network Colonial Contexts Network Colonial Contexts invites to the Digital International Network Meeting at July 7, 2025 at 5 pm (CEST).

The Network Colonial Contexts invites to the "Digital International Network Meeting" at July 7, 2025 at 5 pm (CEST): kulturgutverluste.de/termine/digi... #provenanceresearch

Missionary Societies and Religious Orders in German Colonies…

The German Lost Art Foundation published their 9th working paper on "„Missionary Societies and Religious Orders in German Colonies and Their Contribution to Ethnographic Collections“ #provenanceresearch doi.org/10.25360/01-...

Original post on det.social

JOB: New position in provenance research and cultural heritage informatics: PAESE 3.0 (Leuphana University Lüneburg) is hiring a
Research Associate (100%, TV-L 13)
to help shape the future of colonial collections data. Apply by 19 June 2025.
#ProvenanceResearch #DigitalHeritage #PAESE […]

Completely unhinged.

What does this mean for #provenanceresearch?

“Victor Wallerstein’s life in Italy and the fate of his art collection - a case study of an Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painting” (ENG) Evening lecture by Nadine Bauer (Grisebach GmbH Berlin)

25/6/25: Evening lecture (online) on "“Victor Wallerstein’s life in Italy and the fate of his art collection - a case study of an Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painting” organized by the AG Italien des Arbeitskreises Provenienzforschung e.V.: kulturgutverluste.de/termine/vict... #provenanceresearch

Mapping Paintings

And what about this:
Mapping Paintings visualizes the provenance of artworks across time and space. A compelling example of how art history and digital mapping come together.
https://www.mappingpaintings.org/

#DigitalArtHistory #ProvenanceResearch #CulturalDataScience #ArtHistory

Kolloquium Provenienzforschung: “Persecuted and robbed. The Sultan family and their property seized by the National Socialists“ On Monday, 30 June 2025, at 6 pm, Meike Hoffmann, Barani Shira Guttsmann and Alexander Boll will be presenting the research work of the reconstruction project “Persecuted and robbed. The Sultan family...

30/6/2025: Kolloquium Provenienzforschung on "“Persecuted and robbed. The Sultan family and their property seized by the National Socialists“ #provenanceresearch

Registration by 27 June 2025

kulturgutverluste.de/termine/koll...

“Italy and the Question of Nazi-Fascist Looted Art: the Value of Provenance Research in the case of Umberto Boccioni's ‘Maestra di scena: Ritratto della Signora Adalgisa Maffi’ (1909/1910)” (ENG) Evening lecture by Sharon Hecker (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano)

28/5/25, 6:45 pm CET: Online lecture “Italy and the Question of Nazi-Fascist Looted Art: the Value of Provenance Research in the case of Umberto Boccioni's ‘Maestra di scena: Ritratto della Signora Adalgisa Maffi’ (1909/1910)” #Provenanceresearch kulturgutverluste.de/termine/ital...

12 years later, Edna Ferber will help and support relatives to escape Nazi Germany. Among them the children of Cäcilie Holländer, née Jacoby. Our research on her family's art collection is ongoing. www.factsandfiles.com/en/projects/...
#Provenanceresearch #History #Berlin

“From Confiscation to Exile: the fate of venetian art dealer Adolph Loewi in the two World Wars” (ENG) Evening lecture by Laura Scarante (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)

30/4/2025, 6:45 pm: “From Confiscation to Exile: the fate of venetian art dealer Adolph Loewi in the two World Wars”, evening lecture organized by the AG Italien des Arbeitskreises Provenienzforschung e.V. #Provenanceresearch kulturgutverluste.de/termine/conf...

Original post on det.social

CFP deadline: May 30, 2025
Digital Turn. Collections – Provenance – Markets (HU Berlin, Nov 27–28, 2025) explores how #BigData, #AI & digital tools are reshaping collection, provenance & art market research.
https://arthist.net/archive/47275
#DigitalHumanities #ProvenanceResearch #ArtMarket […]

Frontcover WerkstattGeschichte 77/2018 mit Ausschnitt eines Schwarz-Weiß-Fotos von der offiziellen Übergabe des Schädels von Chief Mkwawa (verborgen in einem tuchbedeckten Kasten) durch Gouverneur Sir Edward Twining (in repräsentativer, dunkler Uniform mit Epauletten, Schärpe und Orden auf der Brust) an Mkwawas Enkel, Chief Adam Sapi (in traditionellem, weiten, weißen Gewand), Tansania 1953. Mkwawa starb 1898 am Ende des Kolonialkriegs zwischen dem Deutschen Reich und den Hehe. Sein Kopf wurde von einem deutschen Soldaten abgeschlagen und der Schädel wohl nach Deutschland verbracht. Wir danken dem Staatsarchiv Bremen für die freundliche Überlassung des Bildes.

Inhaltsverzeichnis WerkstattGeschichte 77/2018 (Auszug): Editorial Felix Brahm, Bettina Brockmeyer (Herausgeberlnnen des Thementeils) und die Redaktion | THEMA Felix Schürmann Die Reisenden, die Fliehenden und die Kommenden. Amerikanische Walfänger als Objekte afrikanischer Aneignung im 19. Jahrhundert | Felix Brahm Konflikte um ein globalisiertes Handelsobjekt. Feuerwaffen in Ostafrika, 1850-1890 | Bettina Brockmeyer Menschliche Gebeine als Glaubensobjekte. Koloniale Kriegsbeutenahme, Vergleichspraktiken und Erinnerung seit dem späten 19. Jahrhundert | Holger Stoecker Ein afrikanischer Dinosaurier in Berlin. Der Brachiosaurus brancai als deutscher und tansanischer Erinnerungsort

Ein Lektürehinweis zum #TagDerProvenienzforschung: #WerkstattGeschichte 77/2018 "umstrittene objekte", der Thementeil hg. v. Felix Brahm & Bettina Brockmeyer mit Beiträgen der beiden sowie von Felix Schürmann & Holger Stoecker:

▶ […]

[Original post on openbiblio.social]

»Wikidata for Provenance Research«

Tuesday 8, 2025, 7 - 8.30 p.m., online

With: Ruth von dem Bussche, Meike Hopp, Achim Raschka, Laurel Zuckerman

Info […]

[Original post on fedihum.org]

I will be there🙋‍♂️ #ProvenanceResearch

Very happy for this publication to be out 🤩 @dhssfau.bsky.social #digitalhumanities #provenanceresearch

Am 9. April 2025 ist Tag der Provenienzforschung!
Forscher*innen aus Museen, Bibliotheken und Archiven sind zu #Blogparade eingeladen. Gemeinsam Provenienzgeschichten sichtbar machen!
🔗https://retour.hypotheses.org/4322
#Provenienzforschung #ProvenanceResearch #TagderProvenienzforschung #CfP

I was very happy to talk about different applications of machine learning in #provenanceresearch and #arthistory 🤩 #DigitalHumanities