Provenance Research: Provenance Research on the Neue Nationalgalerie’s 1905–1945 Collection Catalogue

Max Liebermann, Garden Restaurant on the Havel, Nikolskoe, detail, 1916, oil on canvas © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie

Lovis Corinth, Samson Blinded, detail, 1912, oil on canvas © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie

Piet Mondrian, Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow, and Red, detail, 1922, gouache on paper © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jörg P. Anders

Christian Schad: Sonja, 1928 (detail) © Christian Schad Stiftung Aschaffenburg / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2013 / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jörg P. Anders

Lotte Laserstein, Evening over Potsdam, 1930 | Acquired with the support of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin, the Kulturstiftung der Länder, the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung and others © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021. Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Roman März

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Potsdamer Platz, 1914 | Acquired with the support of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Kulturstiftung der Länder, the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, the Kultur-Stiftung der Deutschen Bank and others © Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Jörg P. Anders

Die Kunst der Gesellschaft 1900-1945. Sammlung der Nationalgalerie, Ausstellungsansicht, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2021 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 / David von Becker

Provenance Research on the Neue Nationalgalerie’s 1905–1945 Collection Catalogue

As part of the reopening of the Neue Nationalgalerie and the opening of the Museums des 20. Jahrhunderts, the Nationalgalerie is compiling a collection catalogue covering the period from 1905 to 1945. The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin’s Zentralarchiv is overseeing the provenance research on this collection of works.

This project will investigate the origins of almost 500 Modernist paintings and sculptures created up until 1945, with a particular focus on individual works produced between 1933 and 1945. Researchers will also look at works that the Nationalgalerie acquired after 1945 in East and West Berlin, which means looking at the acquisition contexts of the Soviet Occupation Zone, the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany.

Institution: Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Project coordination and research: Dr Sven Haase
Project partner: Zentralarchiv, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Duration: since 2019

Further information

Provenance research at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin