Project Category: Culture & Academia

Provenance Research

In this project, we are researching approximately 300 works of art (paintings, prints, sculptures), mostly from the Düsseldorf School, from the collections of the Jewish entrepreneurial families Abraham (1861–1938) and Erich Freundlich (1889–1965) as well as Dr. Otto Markus (1889–1965).

Provenance Research

The project investigated the art collections of Johann Ludwig and Mary Jacoby and Ernst and Cäcilie Holländer, Berlin, and researched the persons who looted the collections, including Erna Gerlach, Franz Spierling, Martha Kalischer, and the auctioneers Gerhard and Rudolf Harms.

Provenance Research

The project researched the art collection of Kurt and Gertrud Schülein, Bopfingen and Stuttgart. Additionally, research was conducted on the collection of Betty Weil, Gertrud Schülein’s mother, as well as other family members.

Provenienzforschung

The project on Dr. Walter Blank’s collection began in June 2024 and ended in May 2025. The origin and whereabouts of the artworks in the collection were being researched.

Provenance Research

The research project aimed to reconstruct the art collection of the Wiesbaden pediatrician Georg Koch and his wife Lotte, née Seeligmann. The project started in January 2021. The works of art, among them works by Alexej Jawlensky, Christian Rohlfs and Emil Nolde, were packed into the lift vans, and “disappeared” in the port of Hamburg in 1942.

Archival Services

Facts & Files was commissioned by the Berlin Museum of Natural History from 2021 to 2023 to inventories archival records and coordinate the archive project.

Facts & Files was commissioned by the Robert Havemann Association in 2021 with a concept for a feasibility study for the “Forum for Opposition and Resistance”.

Facts & Files was commissioned in 2021 by the Berlin Commissioner for the Study of the SED Dictatorship to conduct a study on archives from the SBZ or GDR in Berlin.