Art Collection of August, Serena and Erich Lederer
From February 2020 to July 2022 Facts & Files had been commissioned by Ralf von Jacobs to conduct provenance research on the art collection of August, Serena and Erich Lederer.
Project Category: Culture & Academia
Objects at East Frisian Museums
Provenance Research
The aim of the project at four East Frisian museums was to reconstruct the provenance of over 600 objects, which have so far mainly been classified as “seafarers’ souvenirs” from China.
Provenance Research at Municipal Collections of Lutherstadt Wittenberg
From August 2020 to February 2022, the provenance of objects from the collection of Julius Riemer, which is no part of the Municipal Collections of Lutherstadt Wittenberg was researched. The objects belonged to the Berlin zoologist and mammalogist Oscar R. Neumann before.
Art Collection David and Lola Leder, Chemnitz/Berlin
Provenance Research
We finished the first project about the collection of David and Lola Leder from Chemnitz/Berlin in August 2022. Starting in December 2025, we will find out where the artworks from the collection are now.
Provenance Research on the painting “Women at the Flower Garden” by Emil Nolde
Facts & Files conducted research on the provenance of the painting “Women at the Flower Garden“ from January 2015 to June 2015. Since 1958, the painting was with the collection of the Lehmbruck-Museum in Duisburg. Until 1942 it was in the art collection of Eduard Müller. In 2017, the painting was restituted to the heirs of Eduard Müller.
Europeana 1914-1918
Launched in 2011, the “Europeana 1914–1918” project is a pan-European collection of personal memorabilia from the First World War
Facts & Files was handling press relations and organised the collection days during which documents and other objects could be digitised.
Provenance Research on the Library of the Berlin State Archive
commissioned by the Berlin State Archive
Starting January 2020, Facts & Files had been investigating the provenance of the holdings of the Berlin State Archive’s library. This academic reference library contains about 150,000 records.
Archival Description of the Minutes of the Berlin Senate
Archive Project
From 2019 to 2022, Facts & Files was commissioned by the Berlin State Archives to inventorise the record group of minutes of meetings of the Berlin Senate, the municipal administration of Berlin.
Archive of the DRK
Facts & Files was conducting archival services for the General Secretariat of the German Red Cross from 2013 to 2022.
Expert Report for the University of Cologne
On behalf of the University of Cologne, Facts & Files had prepared a report which looks at the entanglement of the National Socialist regime with the university’s charitable foundations, honorary titles and grants awarded to academics and institutes.