Mosse Art Research Initiative: Dr. Meike Hoffmann on Provenance Research, International Cultural of Memory and Degenerate Artists

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Show Notes

4:00 German culture of memory

5:00 MARI-first collaboration between German public institutions and Holocaust victims

7:00 Historical question addressed about Rudolph Mosse as art lover

8:50 location of objects related to politicians and individuals in culture scene of Mosse’s day

11:00 Hanns Fechner’s portrait of German writer Theodor Fontane held by daughter of Nazi finance Minister Hjalmar Schacht

16:00 Venus Chasing Cupid-sculpture localized during first phase of MARI

17:00 sculpture not included in Nazi arranged auction of Mosse collection

19:00 MARI contact with those believed to hold works from Mosse Collection

20:30 Tel Aviv Museum – tapastries and Jozef Israels’ From Darkness to Light

25:00 Historical justice achieved by making history visible

26:00 MARI’s impact-to prompt scrutiny of provenance of collections

27:30 size of Mosse’s collection

28:30 MARI’s first phase began in early 2017

31:00 MARI’s staff assignment

34:00 Hoffmann’s work on Gurlitt project as researcher and task force member

35:00 portal database for MARI – starts with resources not objects

40:00 Hoffmann began first academic training program for provenance research in 2011

41:30 Adolph Menzel painting – no trace since 1934 auction

43:15 expertize outside of MARI for Eyptian antiquities and Benin Bronzes

46:30 Gurlitt work

50:00 Frie University’s degenerate art program

52:30 Hoffman’s work as Brücke Museum curator

54:40 International Circle of Provenance Research member

59:50 exhibitions that show provenance research

1:02:00 Artist Maria Eichhorn

1:03:00 Hoffmann curated 2019 exhibition Escape Into Art?

1:06:00 future of degenerate artists
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