For many years, German cultural institutions have been dealing with the consequences of the National Socialist theft of art from Jews.

Provenance research not only brings to light the origins and routes of the artworks, but also the stories of the people to whom the works once belonged.

Many of these life stories are now told in multimedia form on this website.

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Bavarian State Painting Collections have set it up together with Bayerischer Rundfunk and Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg and will continue and expand the remembrance project in future together with the Dresden State Art Collections and the German Centre for Lost Cultural Assets.

You can listen to the event in full length here:

*For legal reasons, we are unfortunately unable to provide you with the recorded films here. You can watch the films at https://kunst-raub-rueckgabe.de/filme/ view.

Place and time

• Wednesday, 4 December 2024
• Start 6 pm
• James-Simon-Galerie, Bodestraße, 10178 Berlin

Programme

Moderation of the evening
Shelly Kupferberg

Welcome and introduction
Hermann Parzinger
President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Bernhard Maaz
Director General of the Bavarian State Painting Collections

Panel discussion about remembering in families with
Valerie Sattler
Heiress of Curt Glaser, who was director of the art library until 1933
and then emigrated to Switzerland and the United States

Marc Goldschmidt
Grandson of the banker and collector Jakob Goldschmidt,
who also had to flee Germany

Christopher Braun
Descendant of the large family association Lehmann, Lehfeldt,
Friedrich-Braun, who lived in the Tiergarten neighbourhood for over 50 years

Joachim Brand
Deputy Director of the Art Library and head of the research project
to the Tiergarten neighbourhood, where numerous Jewish collectors lived

Videos
Short films by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg and Bayerischer Rundfunk
on the forgotten life stories of Jewish collectors

Balance sheet and outlook
Petra Winter
Director of the Central Archive of the National Museums in Berlin

Tobias Maier
rbb culture editor

Gilbert Lupfer
German Centre for the Loss of Cultural Property, Magdeburg

Claudia Schmidt
Dresden State Art Collections

Music
Ira Shiran and Yael Gat

Afterwards, we invite you to a small reception in the Löwenfoyer of the James-Simon-Galerie

By participating in the event, you agree to the possible publication of photographic material.