PREP Public Program - PREP Colloquium, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, October 10, 2018
Channel: Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
Date: 2019-08-01

German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program for Museum Professionals (PREP)
4th PREP Exchange in Munich, October 7-12, 2018

Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich
Public Program – PREP Colloquium

Welcome by Christian Fuhrmeister (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich) 
Greetings by Alfred Grimm (Forschungsverbund Provenienzforschung)
Introduction by Richard Kurin (Smithsonian Institution)

With contributions by Jane Milosch (Smithsonian Institution), Katja Lindenau (Dresden State Art Collections, Museum of Prints, Drawings and Photographs), Emily Löffler (Landesmuseum Mainz), Sebastian Schlegel (Klassik Stiftung Weimar), Irene Bald Romano (Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona), Laura Puritani (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz), Meike Hopp (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte), Maria Obenaus (Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste Magdeburg, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresde), Anne Flannery (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago), Elizabeth Dospěl Williams (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington D.C.)

Responses by Natascha Sojc (Universität Augsburg) and Hermann Parzinger (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin)

The German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program (PREP) 2017-2019 brings together, for the first time, museum professionals from both sides of the Atlantic who specialize in World War II-era provenance projects for a three-year, systematic exchange that expands and elaborates on the methods and practices through which both countries have approached the issues pertaining to Holocaust-era art looting. PREP is also widening the scope of WWII-era provenance research, which to date has prioritized painting, sculpture, and Judaica, by including Asian art, decorative arts, and works on paper.
PREP is co-organized by the Smithsonian Institution and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation—Berlin State Museums). Its five partner institutions are the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Getty Research Institute in LA, the Dresden State Art Collections, the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, and the German Center for Lost Art in Magdeburg.