About this Event
A panel of experts will discuss 'Provenance and restitution of Nazi-looted artefacts in the UK and beyond', exploring recent research into looted items and discussing how a network of scholars and researchers are working to overcome the challenges of navigating globally dispersed and fragmented Holocaust collections.
Speakers include provenance researcher Brian Weightman, Richard Aronowitz (Global Head of Restitution at Christie’s Auction House, and Anne Uhrlandt (Senior Research and Documentation Officer at Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project Foundation).
Speaker biographies
Richard Aronowitz has been Global Head of Restitution at Christie’s since 2022. After working as a Development Officer and poetry programmer at the Islington International Festival from 1996 to 1997, he joined Sotheby’s London as an Impressionist & Modern Art specialist before leaving to become Director of the Ben Uri Gallery in 2003. He joined Sotheby’s again as European Head of Restitution in 2006, then moved to Christie’s in 2022 as Global Head of Restitution.
Anne Uhrlandt is a doctoral candidate with more than 20 years of experience working as a provenance researcher specialized in Nazi-looted cultural property. Prior to her job at the Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project Foundation (JDCRP) as Senior Research and Documentation Officer, she was project coordinator at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich. She worked previously for the the Art Loss Register and the Jewish Museum of Munich.
Brian Weightman currently works on various provenance research projects for Mondex Corporation with a specific focus on provenance issues in UK museums. Prior to this, he was the lead researcher on the Dr Max Ginsberg Project, locating Islamic art and antiquities in museums worldwide which had been sold under duress in London in 1939, and worked for Glasgow Museums, where his role included researching provenance of objects in the Burrell Collection and the wider Glasgow Museums collections. He collaborated with Manchester Art Gallery to investigate the provenance of a Renoir painting in their collection which had originally belonged to a German-Jewish collector, Richard Semmel.
Image credit © IWM (BU 9651) Object description - Captain H H Davies of Birkenhead, checks a collection of paintings found in the house of a member of the SS in Hanover who had looted them from Holland.
Event venue & nearby stays
IWM NORTH, THE QUAYS, MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
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