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 goal of the project is to research the art collections of Johann Ludwig and Mary Jacoby and Ernst and Cäcilie Holländer, Berlin, to investigate the circumstances of their loss and to determine the whereabouts of the works of art.

Provenance Research

This research project aims to research the art collection of Kurt and Gertrud Schülein, Bopfingen and Stuttgart. We will document the circumstances of the loss, determine the whereabouts of the artworks, and research information on the family’s persecution.

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.