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Sep 29, 2022

Bavarian State Painting Collections publishes Nazi-era Provenance for 1,200 Works

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The Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Painting Collections)

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The Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Painting Collections) have published the full list of provenance relating to objects acquired by the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen during the Nazi era. The project, which was initiated first in 1999 when the museum appointed a provenance researcher, has surveyed a vast wealth of relevant literature, purchase records, picture files, databases and documents from the Central Collecting Point, as well as the reverse side of pictures. The full list, currently consisting 1,200 works, can be found by clicking here.

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