Transfer of Cultural Objects in the Alpe Adria Region in the 20th Century

Christian Fuhrmeister, Barbara Kristina Murovec, Christian Fuhrmeister, Barbara Murovec, Christian Fuhrmeister, Barbara Murovec

• Verlag: Böhlau Köln
• Jahr: 2022
• ISBN drucken:
  9783412518875
• eBook-ISBN:
  9783412518882
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Kunst
• Thema: Kunstgeschichte

Transfer, displacement, confiscation, seizure, looting and theft of cultural objects characterize historical and current conflicts of ownership - also in the Alpe Adria region. In an unprecedented transnational, collaborative and transdisciplinary way, the motion of objects across space and time - and their role as symbolic capital - was investigated in a project funded by the EU in the HERA program. Comprehensive studies analyze competing (national) claims, occupation regimes, the mechanics of dispossession and the politics of "safeguarding" objects. Acknowleding diverse views, including the narratives that attribute(d) meaning to gains and losses of cultural assets, the volume presents key examples of coming to terms with the past. Contributions from Austria, Croatia, Germany, Italy, and Slovenia are combined with explorations of the broader context of translocations e.g. in the Czech Republic, providing a more nuanced understanding of unresolved issues of patrimony.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• The Transfer of Cultural Objects in the Alpe Adria Region in the 20th Century. Introduction, Assessment and Outlook (Christian Fuhrmeister)
• 1. Nationalism Versus “Values which Survive all Temporal Conflicts”. Art Historians in Times of War (Donata Levi)
• 2. Art Protection in Friuli During the First World War (1917 – 1918). Observations, Analyses and Implications (Martina Visentin)
• 3. Austrian and Italian Negotiations on First World War Art Transfers and Damages (Francesca Coccolo)
• 4. The Fate of the National Library of Serbia during the First World War and Current Research Activities (Dejan Ristić)
• 5. A Collection Gone Astray? Graz – Rogaška Slatina and Dobrna – Ljubljana (Karin Leitner-Ruhe)
• 6. Flourishing Trade Relations in Vienna and Venice. Benno Geiger and the National Socialist Art Trade (Katharina Hüls-Valenti)
• 7. Göring in Italy. The Ventura Case (Emanuele Pellegrini)
• 8. Sources on the Persecution of Italian Jews Preserved in the Italian Central State Archive in Rome (Simona Greco)
• 9. The Relevance of Sources in the Italian Central State Archive for Research on Jewish-Owned Assets (Valeria Toscano)
• 10. The Goods of Jewish Emigrants in the Trieste Free Port during the Second World War (Daria Brasca)
• 11. Removal goods stored in the free port of Trieste. The Question of Responsibility (Anneliese Schallmeiner)
• 12. Trieste — ​Salzburg, March 1945. Research into the Transport of Confiscated Jewish Removal Goods (Albena Zlatanova)
• 13. The Handling of Jewish Emigrants’ Removal Goods in Bremen after 1939. The Case of Vera and Willi Katz from Bielefeld (Susanne Kiel)
• 14. New Findings in Storage at the Museum of Udine. The Case of Paintings Seized from the Brunner Collection (Margherita Colusso)
• 15. How to deal with unexpected information about my great-grandfather’s paintings (Helen Brunner)
• 16. Erika Hanfstaengl’s Activities in Udine and Trieste from 1943 to 1945 (Maria Tischner)
• 17. Continuity in Collecting Cultural Objects. The National Socialist and Socialist Confiscating Centre (Barbara Murovec/Karin Šmid)
• 18. The Looting of Jewish Cultural Assets in Maribor during and after the Second World War. Case Study of the Families Paternolli and Kohnstein-Singer (Janez Premk/Karin Šmid)
• 19. Musealisation Processes of Dispossessed Artworks in Croatia during and after the Second World War (Ljerka Dulibić/Iva Pasini Tržec)
• 20. So-called Private Collections of Public Interest in Zagreb and Their Destiny during Socialism (Iva Pasini Tržec)
• 21. Ante Topić Mimara’s Multifaceted Roles in Transferring Artworks Across Borders (Ivan Ferenčak)
• 22. The Italian Delegation’s Efforts in the Restitution of Cultural Assets to Yugoslavia after the Second World War (Elena Franchi)
• 23. Confiscated Cultural Assets of the German Minority in Czechoslovakia (Kristina Uhl.kov./Jan Uhl.k)
• Illustration Credits
• List of Contributors