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 |
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 | Lecture by Lea Grüter, Provenance Specialist WWII, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
| 09:40 – 10:05 | Lecture 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 | Lecture 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 | |
| 19:00 – 22:00 | Congress dinner at Wolkenburg |
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Members’ meeting at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud
Chair of the Speaker’s Corner: Erik Eising, Assistant Curator, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin;
Chair Room for Debate: Alexandra Libby, Senior Advisor for Curatorial and Conservation Initiatives and Associate Curator of Northern Baroque Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
| 09:30 – 09:40 | Opening of the day |
| 09:40 – 09:55 | Word from the CODART director |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Speakers’ Corner |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee and tea break |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Room for Debate about the practice of doing provenance research |
| 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 | |
| 6 – NS Documentation Center Cologne with Birte Klarzyk | |
| 6 – Museum Kolumba with Stefan Kraus | |
| 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. More information about the program and registration will be available soon. |
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