This short list refers to
Research Institute holdings which bear upon nazi-era looting and post-war
dissemination of stolen art. These archives contain provenance information,
financial records, correspondence, and photographic documentation that both
track the movement of objects and document the art market. The Research
Institute houses many more archives than are listed here and therefore researchers
are encouraged to browse the Research Library's on-line catalogues, IRIS and the Photo Study Collection Database, for dealer
and gallery archives, as well as auction and conservator photographs, which may
contain useful provenance information. The Institute has also a comprehensive
collection of dealer and auction catalogues. In addition to these resources,
the Getty Provenance Index maintains
several electronic databases as well as nonautomated material on the history of
ownership of works of art gathered from sales catalogues, archival records, and
museum files.
Douglas Cooper,
Papers, ca. 1933-1985.
Sections dealing with Nazi art policy
and looting, and Allied protection of cultural property. Access may be
partially restricted.
Ellis K. Waterhouse, Notebooks
and research files, (bulk 1924-1979).
Includes diaries which describe works
in situ in private and public collections from the 1930s through the 1950s.
Other Waterhouse resources in Special Collections and the Photo Study
Collection.
Alois Jakob Schardt
1889-1955. Papers, 1917-1983.
German art historian and museum
director. Documents Kulturkampf against German Expressionism.
Wilhelm F. Arntz,
Papers, 1918-1983.
An important resource for documentation
on looting and recuperation of art. See other Arntz resources in Special
Collections and the Photo Study Collection.
Interviews with art
historians.
Oral History interviews with Craig Hugh
Smyth and Otto Wittmann (for historical background regarding recuperation and
restititution of looted art).
Franz Roh 1890-1965,
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, ca. 1911-1965.
An important art historian and critic,
his papers contain correspondence with artists immediately after the war.
Hermann Bünemann,
Letters received, 1928-1968.
Collection of letters from artists, art
historians and dealers.
Kirchner, Ernst
Ludwig, 1880-1938. Letters and papers, 1905-1946.
Material on sale of works by the Nazis.
Liège (Belgium). Musée
des beaux-arts Papers relating to "entartete Kunst," 1939-1948.
Photographs
documenting the Laemmle art business, Munich and Los Angeles.
Business looted by the Nazis. Also
other Laemmle resources.
Schaeffer Galleries
Inc. Records (Berlin and New York), 1925-1980.
Photographic documentation and records.
Some access restrictions apply.
Ardelia Hall records
(microform of NARA holdings).
Photographs taken by
Johannes Felbermeyer for the allied Central Collecting Point (CCP) in Munich.
In process, cataloguing and
exhibition/publication. Contact Curator of Visual Resources for information.
Stefan Lorant
Collection, 1901-1992 (bulk 1920-1992).
Photographic documentation of Hitler's
inner circles (see J.Petropoulos, Art as Politics in the Third Reich).
Internet Resources
Holocaust
Art Restitution Project (HARP)
Presidential
Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States (PCHA)