The two volumes were returned to their rightful owner more than eight decades later – thanks to the research project ‘Assets looted by the Nazis among the Herzog August Bibliothek’s accessions made between 1933 and 1969’.
In this episode Antonia Reck and Dr Stephan Bialas-Pophanken talk about Büchenbacher’s story and shed light on the processes and challenges of provenance research.
More information:
- Individual case file on suspected Nazi-confiscated cultural property originally belonging to Lucy Büchenbacher, née Mailaender
- Research data from the Herzog August Library’s Nazi-looted art projects
- A virtual exhibition: Searching for Traces: Nazi Provenance Research in the Herzog August Bibliothek
- Three HABlog posts on the projects at the HAB relating to Nazi-looted art:
- Who were Olga and Heinrich Spiero?
- Regional history, Nazi literature and Martin Buber’s translation of the Bible
- Books as witnesses
The project ‘Assets looted by the Nazis among the Herzog August Bibliothek’s accessions made between 1933 and 1969’ is funded by the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste (German Lost Art Foundation). The research findings are continuously documented in the HAB Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) and/or the GBV – GVK Union Catalogue and, in cases where there is strong suspicion that the items were looted by the Nazis, in the Lost Art Database and the Proveana Provenance Research Database of the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste.
HAB gehört is a production of the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.
Recording and post-production: Landesmusikakademie Niedersachsen
Editing: Marie Adler
Sound design: Klingebiel Creative
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