Incorporating Nazi-era sales catalogs into the Getty Provenance Index took a small team about two years. Here’s how they did the work. More»
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Publishing German Sales, A Look under the Hood of the Getty Provenance Index
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Six Questions for Art Detective Victoria Reed
What does a provenance researcher do? And how does she do it? More»
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New Online Resource to Reveal Stories about Nazi-Looted Art, Wartime Art Market
Paintings in storage at the Munich Central Collecting Point, ca. 1945–49, Johannes Felbermeyer. This was one of several sites used by the Allies to identify, photograph, and restitute Nazi-seized artworks after the war. Photo Study Collection. The Getty Research Institute, 89.P.4
Featuring over 2,000 newly digitized catalogs, a new database will revolutionize Nazi-era art research. More»
Also tagged German art, Germany, Getty Provenance Index®, GRI, International, Nazis, research projects
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Nazis Collecting Art: Art Dealer Gustav Cramer’s Wartime Records
A rare resource for the study of the art market in Europe during World War II is now available for research at the Getty Research Institute: the correspondence of Gustav Cramer and his son Hans Max Cramer, owners of the G. Cramer… More»
Also tagged art dealers, art market, Gustav Cramer, Nazis, Treasures from the Vault, World War II
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Creating an Online Collaboration Tool for Scholars
Last month, I gave a presentation with my colleague Tina Shah at the annual Museum Computer Network (MCN) conference in Atlanta about an online collaboration tool for scholars that several of us in the Web group at the Getty have… More»
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Objects and Memories: Edmund de Waal on Tracing a Family Collection
When you visit a museum, it’s easy to forget that objects have a story, a journey from where they began to where they are now. Take Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s portrait of the composer Albert Cahen d’Anvers. It’s one of the most… More»
