Susanna by Reinhold Begas, 1869.
Restituted by MARP in 2017.
Resources and Information
In March 2017, the Mosse heirs and the Freie Universität Berlin founded the Mosse Art Research Initiative (MARI), an innovative project that marked a groundbreaking moment in cultural policy. For the first time, German institutions cooperated with descendants of Nazi persecution in a public-private partnership. Kulturstiftung der Länder and Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz took the lead, and numerous museums and institutions have been included in the research project.
The MARI Online Portal is custom-made for the needs of provenance research, presenting the complex material in a thorough and easily accessible database. With their commitment to high quality information and transparency, MARI details the history of the Mosse family’s persecution and their confiscated art collection, memorializing the knowledge for future generations and cementing this tragic moment in German cultural memory.
The Leo Baeck Institute is a research library and archive focused on the history of German-speaking Jews. Its extensive library, archival, and art collections comprise one of the most significant repositories of primary source material and scholarship on the centuries of Jewish life in Central Europe before the Holocaust. The Institute is committed to preserving and expanding access to this rich body of material, and it has digitized millions of pages of documents, books, and artworks from its collections.
The institute houses a vast archive of Mosse family materials, featuring documents, photographs, and more. The collection includes extensive resources about Rudolf and Emilie Mosse, Hans and Felicia Lachmann-Mosse, Hilde Mosse, George Mosse, and many others, and serves as a rich resource for understanding the history and impact of the Mosse family.
The Lost Art Database registers cultural objects that were relocated, moved or seized as a result of persecution under the Nazi dictatorship, especially from Jewish owners. Provenance is key to gaining restitution for affected families, and the Lost Art Database works to fulfill this important prerequisite. Lost Art is operated by the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste at Magdeburg, a foundation that serves as the national and international central contact in Germany on issues surrounding the implementation of the “Washington Principles” and the “Joint Declaration” of the German Federal Government, the Länder, and the National Associations of Local Authorities.
The Central Registry of Information on Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945 is a repository of information on Nazi theft and contemporary efforts to research and resolve all outstanding issues. A charitable body operating under the auspices of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, an independent unit of the University of Oxford, the Central Registry fulfills Washington Principle VI from the Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art.
It was established through an initiative of its sister organization, the Commission for Looted Art in Europe. The Commission is the non-profit, expert, representative body in Europe which negotiates policies and procedures, assists families to identify and recover looted cultural property, and provides guidance and information to individuals, institutions and governments worldwide.