Welcome Message
The Center for Art Collection Ethics (ACE) at the University of Denver (DU) is pleased to offer this hybrid training program on the fundamentals of Nazi-era art provenance research, June 24–28, 2024. In partnership with DU’s Center for Professional Development, our on-campus certificate program is geared toward graduate students in any field, and emerging museum and art market professionals, with generous support from the Art Ashes Foundation. Most sessions are available to the broader public, who have registered to attend online as non-certificate students. For seamless and secure program delivery, we are using the OpenWater virtual conferencing platform.
Our planning team includes Renée Albiston, Associate Provenance Researcher, Denver Art Museum; Antonia Bartoli, Curator of Provenance Research at the Yale University Art Gallery; and Elizabeth Campbell, Professor of History; Founding Director, Center for Art Collection Ethics, University of Denver.
Session recordings will be available to all registrants for one year. We will post them the week of July 1, 2024.
Please complete our program survey here after attending all of your sessions. We appreciate your feedback.
Program Summary
This hybrid training program includes interactive lectures and discussions with top historians, provenance researchers, archivists and museum staff. Streamed talks include: The History and Legacy of Nazi Art Plunder by Elizabeth Campbell; a claimants’ panel with Jona Goldschmidt and Laurel Zuckerman; Legal Approaches to Art Restitution Claims with Nicholas O’Donnell and Anna Rubin; exhibition narratives with Jacques Schuhmacher at the Victoria and Albert Museum; progress and lack thereof, 25 years after the Washington Principles with Marc Masurovsky, co-founder of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project; the state of provenance research and restitution in Germany, with Meike Hopp; Due Diligence and Digital Research with Amelie Ebbinghaus at the Art Loss Register; and a panel of experts on research beyond paintings. On Wednesday, June 26 we will feature a streamed visit to the Denver Art Museum, where Renée Albiston will present case studies of her provenance research, and Lori Iliff will discuss repatriation from the museum over the past fifty years.
Streamed sessions on research resources include: Introduction to Provenance Research Resources by Antonia Bartoli; archival resources abroad and in the United States, including presentations by Sylvia Naylor from the National Archives and Records Administration, Megan Lewis at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Sandra van Ginhoven and Sally McKay at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, and staff from the Frick Art Reference Library. Renée Albiston and Antonia Bartoli will lead several training sessions on research strategies, and writing clear provenance narratives, with accuracy and transparency.
On Friday, June 28, we are delighted to feature a keynote address, “Cross-border Claims to Looted Art: Obstacles and Models,” by Dr. Evelien Campfens, Lecturer, Cultural Heritage Law and Looted Art and Restitution at the University of Amsterdam.
In the on-campus portion of the program, certificate students will work in small groups on a provenance research case study, which they will present in a streamed symposium the afternoon of Friday, June 28.
Thank you for joining us!
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Please complete our program survey here after attending all of your sessions. We appreciate your feedback.
