The creation of this Portal is unprecedented. Except for Lynn Nicholas and Patricia Grimsted who bring to the May 6-7, 2011, Provenance Research Conference, their respective focus on plunder of cultural objects, archives, and books, noted absences are those of pioneers of looted art research like Willi Korte and Konstantin Akinsha who blazed trails in the untangling of complex webs of illicit ownership of art objects in continental Europe. The launch of the portal will be followed by an international conference on provenance research attended for the most part by museum professionals, provenance researchers, art experts.
An official ceremony is scheduled to take place in Washington, DC, on May 5, 2011.
A newfangled “International Research Portal” has been launched to facilitate archival research on Nazi looting of art objects across Europe between 19.
