Provenance research

    Restitution of Nazi-Looted Cultural Assets

    "See what you started!"

    In September 2024, Klassik Stiftung Weimar restituted a four-volume work to the granddaughter of Elsa von Klarwill, who had been persecuted by the Nazis. The case demonstrates how provenance research can open up a new chapter in a family’s history.

    Restituting assets confiscated by the Nazis

    Der Name auf der Mappe

    Klassik Stiftung Weimar has restituted 39 letters, a handwritten poem, and a manuscript folder to the heirs of Beno Kaufmann, a Dresden art collector who was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The case represents the largest collection of Nazi-looted cultural assets to be discovered in the Goethe- und…

    Restitution of Nazi-looted cultural property

    Tracing the Art Collector Heinrich Schwarz

    In its holdings the Klassik Stiftung Weimar has identified objects that formerly belonged to the collection of the art historian Dr Heinrich Schwarz, who was persecuted by the National Socialist regime. A drawing and two prints could now be restituted to his heiress.

    Projects of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Free State of Thuringia, represented by the State Chancellery of Thuringia, Department of Culture and the Arts.