Lost Art Internet Database

Database of German national central authority responsible for the protection of cultural goods and works of art having disappeared in connection with WW II as well as Jewish losses.

"The Lost Art Database registers cultural objects which as a result of persecution under the Nazi dictatorship and the Second World War were relocated, moved or seized, especially from Jewish owners. Lost Art is operated by the foundation Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste at Magdeburg. The foundation is nationally and internationally the central contact in Germany on issues of the implementation of the "Washington Principles" and the "Joint Declaration" of the German Federal Government, the Länder and the National Associations of Local Authorities. It continues the tasks of the former Koordinierungsstelle Magdeburg, which set www.lostart.de online in April 2000, and the former Arbeitsstelle für Provenienzforschung. The foundation is carried by the German Federal Government, the Länder and the National Associations of Local Authorities. [...]"