A new feature has been published on the CODART website. The annual CODART congress, with this year’s focus on provenance research, will commence in Cologne in a few days. In anticipation, Uta Neidhardt details the dispersal of the Gemäldegalerie Dresden’s painting collection during the Second World War, and the continued reappearance and restitution of lost works.

“The unusual fate of Dresden’s Gemäldegalerie, one of the world’s most important collections of European paintings from the early Renaissance to the late Baroque, was decided a few days before the outbreak of the Second World War.” (…) Continue reading…

CODARTfeatures

Published monthly, features provide information on new curatorial developments, current projects, collections of Dutch and Flemish art in museums worldwide, as well as insight into the work of the museum curator.

Last month’s feature was Expedition Zeichnung: Research on Netherlandish Drawings in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud by Dr. Annemarie Stefes. To browse all features, visit codart.nl/features.