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Uniting to Save World Cultures PREP is co-organized by the Smithsonian Institution and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, in partnership with four major museums and research institutes in the US and Germany with important holdings of interest to Holocaust-era art provenance researchers: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich; and Staatliche Kunst- sammlungen Dresden; with the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste (German Lost Art Foundation, DZK), Magdeburg, as consulting partner. Major support for PREP comes through a German government grant funded by the German Program for Transatlantic Encounters, financed by the European Recovery Program through Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economics Affairs and Energy, with additional funds from the Federal Commission for Culture and Media and the 7 PREP institutional partners. THE GERMAN/AMERICAN EXCHANGE ON NAZI-ERA ART PROVENANCE RESEARCH IN MUSEUMS Additional funding comes from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, Norman and Suzanne Cohn, Howard and Roberta Ahmanson, James P. 6TH PREP EXCHANGE Hayes, Lois Jecklin, Jerry and Gwen Paulson, Ferdinand-Möller-Stiftung, OCTOBER 20–26, 2019 Berlin, Eskin Family Foundation, Kathryn Hughes and John Christian, Brian Daggett and Franz Rabauer, and Ruth Abrahams Design. 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We also welcome our 2017-2018 alumni, who will participate later this week to mark the conclusion of this ground-breaking, three-year German/American Exchange Program. The first half of the week will focus on institutions and provenance resources that are important for Holocaust-era art research in Washington, DC. We hope to deepen the conversations and widen the networking that began during the 5th Exchange in Dresden this past Spring. The second half of the week will round out the accomplishments of PREP during the five previous Exchanges, to inspire ongoing connections and ascertain future outcomes. It is fitting that the last of PREP’s six Exchanges is hosted in the city where the Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets took place in 1998, and where a wealth of resources about art collecting, art looting, restitution, and wartime and post-war history are concentrated. Today, two decades after that landmark conference, our Exchange Program is poised to reflect on building strong relationships between German and American provenance researchers and bridging the efforts of art museums on both sides of the Atlantic. The first event of the 6th Exchange, at the Archives of American Art, sets the stage for our program this week as, with the Smithsonian’s Cultural Rescue Initiative, we witness the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Smithsonian Institution and the US Army to revitalize a “Monuments Men and Women” for the future. Then we begin the actual Exchange, which, as always, includes hands-on work with objects and documents and face-to-face conversations with experts from DC-area institutions, especially in connection with the research of Asian, decorative, and graphic arts. The DC cultural and research institutions we will visit—the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, National Archives and Records Administration, Library of Congress, and federal and private museums—provide exemplary collections and documentation related to the Third Reich, to World War II, to Jewish history, and to remembrance. 1 WELCOME Later in the week, our concluding program will take place at the German Historical Institute. On Thursday, in the week’s signature event, 40 alumni from all three years’ Exchanges, representing 25 institutions, will present a PREP Colloquium on research projects and collaborative work enriched by their experiences with PREP colleagues. Friday morning, legal experts from the Smithsonian, The Met, the SPK, and the Getty will compare the legal systems of Germany and the US, and discuss how they impact provenance research in our respective countries. In the afternoon, the PREP participants will review the format and contents of PREP’s Online Resource for Holocaust- Era Art Provenance Research in Germany and the US, which the Getty Research Institute will publish digitally and maintain after the end of the Program. The Resource will be a lasting roadmap of PREP’s “provenance research Autobahn,” charting its programs, achievements, and outcomes, and tracing a network of ongoing and expanding conversations on provenance topics that will reverberate well into the future. The 6th Exchange will conclude with two public programs open to the greater Washington DC community. On Friday evening, the panel “Nazi-Era Provenance Research: The Importance of Transnational Exchange,” will focus on the historical development of Holocaust-era
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