Přednáška - Uloupené umění

Winternitz Villa in cooperation with the Center for Documentation of Property Transfers of Cultural Fields of Victims II. World War II cordially invite a lecture called Stolen Art. You are interested in how the property confiscation was in the period II. World War II, what are war deponates and forced gifts for export or what was it and how did Treuhandstelle work? The lecture of the Center staff at specific stories of collectors will bring the ways to seize and acquire assets at the time of the occupation and at the same time reveal how almost detective work in the documentation and identification of works of art confiscated during II. World War II.

Center for documentation of property transfers of cultural goods victims II. World War II is a publicly beneficial organization that focuses on the research of the issue of cultural estates stolen or confiscated by the victims of World War II, their identification and documentation, and the issues of returning these objects to the original owners or their direct descendants. The work of the Documentation Center is based on archival research in domestic and foreign archives, survey of inventory and incremental books in state museums and galleries, on the exchange of information between state organizations, state museums and galleries and cooperation and exchange of information with foreign institutions similar to individual researchers from the Czech Republic abroad.