Program
Sunday, 16 March 2025
| 14:00-15:30 | Optional excursions (see this page for more information): |
| 1 – City walk and visit to the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum | |
| 2 – Visit to the churches of St. Gereon and St. Ursula | |
| 3 – Cologne Cathedral; tour over the roofs | |
| 4 – Cologne Cathedral; tour through the excavations | |
| 5 – Modern and Contemporary Art at Museum Ludwig | |
| 16:00-18:00 | Registration and opening reception at the City Hall of Cologne, generously hosted by the City of Cologne |
Monday, 17 March 2025
Plenary session at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud
Congress chair: Quentin Buvelot, Senior Curator, Mauritshuis, The Hague
Congress theme: ‘Tracing Contested Histories: The Challenges and Future of Provenance Research’
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 – 09:05 | Welcome by Marcus Dekiert, Director of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud |
| 09:05 – 09:15 | Introduction to the congress theme by the congress chair |
| 09:15 – 09:40 | To Those Who Will Come After: The Parrhesia of Traces – Confronting What We Are Forgetting by Lea Grüter, Provenance Specialist WWII, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
| 09:40 – 10:05 | Provenance Research: International Developments in the Last Decades and Future Challenges by Christoph Zuschlag, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach-Professor for the History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Managing Director of the Art History Department, Bonn University, Bonn |
| 10:05 – 10:35 | Coffee and tea break |
| 10:35 – 11:00 | Provenance Research in Museums by Jacques Schuhmacher, Executive Director of Provenance Research, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Questions, remarks and discussion led by the congress chair |
| 11:15 – 12:15 | Case studies on the congress theme (part I): |
| 1. Coming Home? The Return of Paulus Potter’s Watermill to Kassel. Napoleonic Looting as a Side-Field of Provenance Research by Justus Lange, Chief Curator, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Head of Collections, Hessen Kassel Heritage, Kassel | |
| 2. The Tortuous Journey of a Sixteenth-Century Altarpiece: From Göring’s Wish List to Conversation Starter in M Leuven by Ko Goubert, Head of Collections (ad interim), M Leuven, Leuven | |
| 3. Missing Pieces: Gap and Omission in the Mid-Twentieth-Century Provenance of Van Heemskerck’s Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Margaret Doyle, Provenance Expert & Head of Curatorial Files and Records Department, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC | |
| 4. Gaps and Discoveries: Provenance Research at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud by Britta Olényi von Husen, Provenance Researcher, Department for Art and Culture, City of Cologne | |
| 12:15 – 13:30 | Lunch and free time to visit the permanent collection |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Case studies on the congress theme (part II): |
| 5. Losses and Gains: Polish Museums and Their Collections After World War II: The Case of the National Museum in Warsaw by Piotr Borusowski, Keeper in the Department of Prints and Drawings, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Warsaw | |
| 6. Remember Me: How to Do Provenance Research When Historical Regimes Have Favored “Not to Remember” by Greta Koppel, Curator of Dutch and Flemish Paintings, Kadrioru Kunstimuuseum, Eesti Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn | |
| 7. Russia-Related Provenance After Russia’s Attack on Ukraine – A Practical and Moral Guide by Kersti Tainio, Curator, Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki | |
| 8. The Biography of an Artwork by Ruben Suykerbuyk, Curator of Old Masters, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam | |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Questions, remarks and discussion led by the congress chair |
| 14:45 – 14:55 | Closing of the day by the congress chair |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | In-depth study visits (see this page for more information): |
| 1 – Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud: Middle Ages-1600 with Roland Krischel | |
| 2 – Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud: Baroque Collection, including exhibition Collectors’ Dreams with Anja Sevcik | |
| 3 – Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud: Netherlandish drawings 1500-1800 with Annemarie Stefes, Sabrina Hehl and Thomas Klinke | |
| 4 – Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud: Conservator’s studio with Iris Schaefer, Ruth Klinkhammer, Kristin Krupa and Caroline von Saint-George | |
| 5 – Museum Schnütgen with Moritz Woelk and Karen Straub | |
| 6 – NS Documentation Center Cologne with Birte Klarzyk | |
| 7 – Cologne Cathedral: tour over the roof with members of the Dombauhütte | |
| 18:30 – 22:00 | Congress dinner at Wolkenburg, generously supported by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin and the Delegation of Flanders in Germany. |
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Members’ meeting at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud
| 09:30 – 09:40 | Opening of the day |
| 09:40 – 09:55 | Word from the Director of CODART |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Speakers’ Corner led by Erik Eising, Assistant Curator, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee and tea break |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Room for Debate: in this interactive panel discussion the provenance researchers who spoke on Monday talk about the practice of doing provenance research, moderated by Alexandra Libby, Senior Advisor for Curatorial and Conservation Initiatives and Associate Curator of Northern Baroque Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. The audience is invited to join the discussion. |
| 12:30 – 12:35 | Closing of the day by the congress chair |
| 12:35 – 14:30 | Lunch at your own leisure and time to travel to locations of the in-depth study visits |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | In-depth study visits (see this page for more information): |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | 1 – Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud: Middle Ages-1600 with Roland Krischel |
| 2 – Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud: Baroque Collection, including exhibition Collectors’ Dreams with Anja Sevcik | |
| 3 – Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud: Netherlandish drawings 1500-1800 with Annemarie Stefes, Sabrina Hehl and Thomas Klinke | |
| 4 – Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud: Conservator’s studio with Iris Schaefer, Ruth Klinkhammer, Kristin Krupa and Caroline von Saint-George | |
| 5 – NS Documentation Center Cologne with Birte Klarzyk | |
| 6 – Museum Kolumba with Jonas Grahl | |
| 7 – Cologne Cathedral: tour over the roof with members of the Dombauhütte | |
| 8 – Kunststation St. Peter: Rubens in Köln with Stephan Ch. Kessler and Nils Büttner | |
| 17:00 – 18:30 | Farewell drinks |
| End of Program |
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Optional program CODART 26
| Full day | Full-day excursion to Schloss Johannisburg in Aschaffenburg. For the optional excursion, a separate fee is charged. Please find more information here. |
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