{"id":1907,"date":"2013-06-20T19:39:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T19:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2013-06-20T19:39:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T19:39:58","slug":"swiss-website-aims-to-help-museums-track-nazi-looted-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2013\/06\/20\/swiss-website-aims-to-help-museums-track-nazi-looted-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Website Aims to Help Museums Track Nazi-Looted Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Monuments Men — members of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives unit of the U.S. military — transport paintings from the depot of looted art at Schloss Neuschwanstein near Munich in May 1945. The Swiss government has opened an Internet portal aimed at helping museums and claimants to track Nazi-looted art in Swiss collections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Swiss government today started a new Internet portal to help claimants, museums and researchers track down art looted by the Nazis that has found its way to\u00a0Switzerland, an art-market hub before and during World War II.<\/p>\n

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The new\u00a0<\/span>portal<\/a>\u00a0offers advice on provenance research, links to relevant databases and archives, and details on museums\u2019 own studies of their collections, the\u00a0<\/span>Federal Culture Office<\/a>\u00a0said in a statement. It is to be presented at a conference in Bern today, according to the statement.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThere are few international processes, rules or accords to coordinate how we address the problem of looted art,\u201d the Federal Culture Office said. \u201cExpanding provenance research is an important step toward implementing the Washington Principles relating to art confiscated by the Nazis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Switzerland is one of 44 countries that endorsed the non-binding\u00a0Washington Principles<\/a>\u00a0on returning Nazi-looted art in public collections in 1998. Under those international guidelines, governments pledged to find \u201cjust and fair\u201d solutions for the victims of Nazi plundering and their heirs, and to allocate resources to identify stolen art.<\/p>\n

Read more of the article\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dr. Kenneth Lindsay (1919 – 2009) (Photo Courtesy of Agon Arts & Entertainment)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Did you know that former Binghamton University Professor, Kenneth Lindsay<\/a> was a Monuments Man? Read more about the Monuments Men here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Swiss government today started a new Internet portal to help claimants, museums and researchers track down art looted by the Nazis that has found its way to\u00a0Switzerland, an art-market hub before and during World War II. The new\u00a0portal\u00a0offers advice on provenance research, links to relevant databases and archives, and details on museums\u2019 own studies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archives-in-the-news","7":"category-faculty"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}