PREP Public Program - Bavarian American Academy, October 8, 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

Monday, October 8, 2019
Bavarian American Academy, Munich
Public Program – Framing the Monuments Men: Past and Present

Welcome by Stephen F. Ibelli (American General Consulate Munich) and Ulrich Pfisterer (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte Munich)

With contributions by Esther Heyer (Provenance Researcher), Birgit Kirchmayr (Institute of Modern and Contemporary History, Johannes Kepler University Linz), Laura Nicolaiciuc (PhD Candidate, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) and Lynn H. Nicholas (Independent Scholar; read by Christel Force)

The German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program for Museum Professionals (PREP) 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.