PREP Public Program -  NS-Dokumentationszentrum, 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
NS-Dokumentationszentrum, Munich

Public Program – Provenence Research and Restitution: Managing Collections and Public Expectations

Welcome by Mirjam Zadoff (NS-Dokumentationszentrum Munich) 
With contributions by Carola Thielecke (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin), Megan Lewis (United States Holocaus Memorial Museum), Carolin Lange (Landesstelle für die nichtstaatlichen Museen in Bayern)
Responses by Sophie Lillie (Neue Galerie New York) and Laurie Stein (Smithsonian Institution)
Lecture by Simon Goodman

Discussion with Simon Goodman,  Richard Kurin (Smithsonian Institution), Sophie Lillie (Neue Galerie New York), Gilbert Lupfer (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste), Hermann Parzinger (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin), Carola Thielecke (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin) 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.