{"id":113,"date":"2023-11-27T10:01:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T09:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kunst-raub-rueckgabe.de\/?p=113"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:34:20","slug":"25-years-washington-conference-restitution-art-theft-and-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunst-raub-rueckgabe.de\/en\/2023\/11\/27\/25-jahre-washingtoner-konferenz-restitution-kunst-raub-und-rueckgabe\/","title":{"rendered":"On 14 December 2023 in Berlin: Event \"Explore and give back ...\""},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost 80 years after the end of the Second World War, the systematic looting of cultural assets by the National Socialists, particularly those belonging to Jews, has still not been fully analysed. The foundations for this enormous task were laid 25 years ago at a conference in Washington, with fundamental consequences for the art world. Since then, many museums, libraries and archives have been working intensively on the subject.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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There is now extensive experience with provenance research and restitution, as well as with finding fair and just solutions with the descendants of the victims. In recent years, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted over 350 works of art and around 2,000 books. But with each new case, new perspectives open up and new questions arise. And today in particular, it is becoming increasingly important to tell the stories behind the artworks and books in order to convey the crimes of the National Socialists to a younger generation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The evening aims to show how researchers, curators and lawyers work together - and how their work and the stories of the works and their provenance are also visible in museums today: in publications, \u201eProvenance Traces\u201c and films.<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/h3>\n