DIE KUNST ZU SAMMELN - RAUBKUNST UND RESTITUTION: Referent:innen: Amelie Ebbinghaus

In the organizer's words:

Over three evenings, "Collecting Art - Between Artist, Market and Provenance" deals with the art market, the building of a collection and, in particular, sheds light on the handling of Nazi-looted and refugee art and addresses the debate on the restitution of objects from the colonial era.

On this evening, we want to talk to Amelie Ebbinghaus, Director of The Lost Art Register, about Nazi-looted art, refugee art and the restitution of artworks looted by the National Socialists between 1933 and 1945. Some of these paintings are still in private and public collections today. The Washington Declaration of 1998 was an attempt to lay the foundations for a "fair and just solution" to restitution. Initiated by the Gurlitt case, the then Bavarian Minister of Justice Bausback introduced a draft for a restitution law in the Bundesrat, but it failed. Last fall, the Bavarian Minister of Culture, Markus Blume, presented a bill for a restitution law, which we will also discuss. We will shed light on a number of prominent restitution cases and find out from Amelie Ebbinghaus about the latest developments and a look beyond the state borders.