Related Websites
The American Association of Museums website contains its guidelines concerning the unlawful appropriation of objects during the Nazi era, and links to postings by other museums.
Commission for Art Recovery of the World Jewish Congress.
Holocaust Era Assets at the National Archives of the United States.
International list of current activities regarding Holocaust era assets, Project of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in conjunction with the Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets; includes information about making claims.
Museum Security Network, WW 2 and Looted Art.
New York State Holocaust Claims Office
Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States.
The Project for the Documentation of Wartime Cultural Losses reproduces many important documents and photographs, including installation shots of the Jeu de Paume, Paris, which was used as a collecting point by the Germans, and the Art Looting Investigation Unit Final Report.
Selected Sources of Information about the LACMA Collections
Articles
Caroselli, Susan L., Joseph Fronek, et al. Italian Panel Painting of the Early Renaissance in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: LACMA, 1994.
Conisbee, Philip, Mary L. Levkoff, and Richard Rand. The Ahmanson Gifts: European Masterpieces in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: LACMA, 1991.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Masterpieces from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection. Los Angeles: LACMA, 1988.
Schaeffer, Scott, Peter Fusco, and Paula-Teresa Wiens. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: LACMA, 1987.
Provenance Index database
Getty Research Institute, Provenance Index database. To search LACMA's collection of pre-1900 European paintings—by former owner, artist, and/or subject—log on to http://piedi.getty.edu
Other Museum Websites
Art Institute of Chicago
Cleveland Museum of Art
J. Paul Getty Museum
Harvard University Museums
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington
National Museums of the United Kingdom
Musées National Récupération [MNR] —The French government’s list of works of art retrieved from Germany following World War II but never claimed by their legitimate owners. Since 1949, these works have been administered under the direction of the Musées de France.
Lost Art Internet Database —The German government's list of more than 2,200 unclaimed looted works of art still in its possession, as well as information about works still missing from public institutions and private individuals in Germany.
Selected Bibliography
Alford, Kenneth D. The Spoils of World War II: The American Military's Role in the Stealing of Europe's Treasures. Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Pub. Group, 1994.
Barron, Stephanie, et al. "Degenerate Art," The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany. Los Angeles: LACMA, 1991.
Feliciano, Hector. The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art. New York: Basic Books, 1997.
Howe, Thomas Carr Jr. Salt Mines and Castles: The Discovery and Restitution of Looted European Art. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1946.
Kurtz, Michael J. Nazi Contraband: American Policy on the Return of European Cultural Treasures, 1945–1955. New York: Garland, 1985.
Nicholas, Lynn H. The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Petropoulos, Jonathan. Art as Politics in the Third Reich. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Petropoulos, Jonathan. The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Simpson, Elizabeth, ed. The Spoils of War: World War II and Its Aftermath. The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997.
Smyth, Craig Hugh. Repatriation of Art from the Collection Point in Munich after World War II: Background and Beginnings with Reference Especially to the Netherlands. Maarssen, Netherlands: G. Schwartz, 1988.
Registration of Lost Objects
To register objects lost in Europe during the period 1933–1945 (there is no charge associated with registration):
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We invite scholars and the public to help us complete our knowledge.
For inquiries and/or information on objects on the list, please send us a letter or contact the museum via email at provenance@ lacma.org.
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