Forgotten
Life Stories
With their passion for art they shaped European cultural life. Then they were persecuted, dispossessed, expelled, and murdered by the National Socialists – simply because they were Jews. Here we tell some of their life stories.
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Seit vielen Jahren beschäftigen sich deutsche Kultureinrichtungen mit den Folgen des nationalsozialistischen Kunstraubs an Jüdinnen und Juden.
Die Provenienzforschung bringt nicht nur die Herkunft und Wege der Kunstwerke ans Licht, sondern auch die Geschichten der Menschen, denen die Werke einst gehörten.
Viele dieser Lebensgeschichten werden nun auf dieser Website multimedial erzählt.
Die Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz und die Bayerischen[…]
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A commemorative project
When museums research the provenance of their works, they uncover the history not only of ownership but also of the owners. With the multimedia project “Art, Looting, and Restitution – Forgotten Life Stories” the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Painting Collections), in conjunction with the broadcasters Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (rbb) and Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), seek to commemorate the victims of persecution and dispossession. Who were the people concerned and what happened to the art that they owned? What does it mean for their descendants to have a piece of looted art returned?
