Spoils of War International Newsletter. No. 5. June 1998 Imprint: Editorial board: István Fodor, Ekaterina Genieva, Wojciech Kowalski, Josefine Leistra, Doris Lemmermeier, Nicolas Vanhove. Editing: Doris Lemmermeier, Christiane Kienle. Technical assistance: Jost Hansen, Svea Janner, Yvonne Sommermeyer. Translations: Will Firth, Ingo Redlingshöfer. Editorial address: Koordinierungsstelle der Länder für die Rückführung von Kulturgütern beim Kultusministerium des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt Turmschanzenstr. 32, 39114 Magdeburg. Phone: 0049 - 391 - 567 38 59/ 567 38 57 Fax: 0049 - 391 - 567 38 56 E-mail: [email protected] or ISSN 1435-6325 Addresses of the members of the editorial board: István Fodor, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Múzeum körni 14-16, 1088 Budapest, Hungary, phone: 36/1/3382 220, fax: 36/1/3382/673 Ekaterina Genieva, All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature, Nikolojamskaja Street 1, 109 189 Moscow, Russia, phone: 7/095/915 3621, fax: 7/095/915 3637, E-mail:[email protected] Wojciech Kowalski, University of Silesia, Department of Intellectual and Cultural Property Law, ul. Bankowa 8, 40 007 Katowice, Poland, phone/fax: 48/32/517104, phone: 48/32/588211, fax: 48/32/599188 Josefine Leistra, Inspectorate of Cultural Heritage, Prinsessegracht 31, 2514 AP The Hague, The Netherlands, phone: 31/70/302 8120, fax: 31/70/365 1914, E-mail: [email protected] Nicolas Vanhove, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Directorate Economic Relations, Rue Gen. Leman 60, 1040 Brussels, Belgium, phone: 32/2/206 5862, fax: 32/2/514 0389 If you have proposals or questions concerning special sections of the newsletter, please contact the following members of the board: Special Reports: Josefine Leistra Legal Issues: Wojciech Kowalski Country Reports: Editorial Center, Nicolas Vanhove Archival Reports: Ekaterina Genieva Restitutions: István Fodor Latest News: Editorial Center Bibliography: Josefine Leistra, Ekaterina Genieva Contents: Editorial ................................................................................................. ... 5 Special Reports Legal Issues Introduction to International Law of Restitution of Works of Art Looted during Armed Conflicts. Part IV - by Wojciech Kowalski................. 7 The Ukraine and the Russian Law on Removed Cultural Values - by Sergei Kot............. ...................................................... 9 Recent Developments in the Recovery of Old Master Drawings from Bremen - by Thomas R. Kline............................................................... 15 Museum Losses Berlin Aviation Collection Lost without Trace in Pomerania - by Holger Steinle.................................................................. 19 Library Losses Catalogue of the Sárospatak Reformed College's Misplaced Collection - by Evgenia Korkmazova............................................. 20 International Program of the Library for Foreign Literature on the Preservation and Making Accessible of Captured and Rare Book Collections - by Svetlana Gorokhova..................... ............... 22 The Case of the Ossolineum Collection - by Larysa Krushelnytska ............... 25 Center on the Problems of the Transferred Book Collections in St. Petersburg - by Irina Matveyeva......................... ..... 27 ___________ For Germany and Themselves: The Motivation behind the Nazi Leaders Plundering and Collecting of Art. Part II – by Jonathan Petropoulos...................... ......................................................... 28 Return to Dresden after Decades. An Exhibition of the State Galleries Dresden - by Christiane Kienle......... .... 35 Ancient Ukrainian Mosaics and Frescos Lost during the War and now Located in Russian Museums - by Sergei Kot............................... ...... 37 Review of the 1997 Russian Press on the Issue of the Restitution of Cultural Values – by Evgenia Korkmazova.. ................... 41 Country Reports Belgium - by Nicolas Vanhove ...................................................................... 44 Czech Republic – by Ladislav ýHSLþND.................................................. ........ 44 Germany - by Doris Lemmermeier................................................................. 56 Hungary – by István Fodor........................................................................... 57 Italy – by Mario Bondioli-Osio ........................................................................ 58 Korea – by Jongsok Kim .............................................................................. 60 Luxembourg – by Paul Dostert..................................................................... 62 Norway – by Berit Reisel and Bjarte Bruland .................................................... 63 Poland – by Monika Kuhnke ......................................................................... 68 The Netherlands - by Josefine Leistra .......................................................... 69 Ukraine – by Sergei Kot............................................................... .................. 49 Archival Reports Database of the Coordination Office of the Federal States for the Return of Cultural Property – by Doris Lemmermeier and Jost Hansen............. 71 Database of the Government Plenipotentiary for Polish Cultural Heritage – by Monika Kuhnke.......................................................... 77 Target-Lists and German Cultural Material. Findings of a Research Trip to the National Archives Washington – by Kai von Jena.................... ....... 80 Restitutions Books from Armenia Returned to Germany – by Christiane Kienle .............. 85 Miniatures of Kassel Library Returned from the U.S.A. - by Christiane Kienle........................................................... ........................ 86 The Return of Hungarian Archival Material Taken to the U.S.A. after World War II - by János Lakos...................... ....... 86 Restitution of a Battonii Painting to Poland – by Monika Kuhnke.... ............. 88 Dutch Portrait by Govaert Flinck Recovered – by Josephine Leistra.............. 90 Bibliography Books and Articles on General Aspects .................................................. 91 Books and Articles on Specific Countries................................................ 91 Latest News Role of Holocaust Claims Processing Office Expanded...................... .... 97 World Jewish Congress: Commission for Art Recovery .......................... 97 New Addresses........................................................................................ 97 Website Concerning Cultural Property Losses........................................ 98 Quedlinburg Treasure.............................................................................. 64 Objects of the Amber Room in Germany................................................. 64 Spoils of War International Newsletter. No. 5. June 1998 Editorial This issue of "Spoils of War" already reaches you from Magdeburg, the capital of the land Sachsen-Anhalt. As planned and as announced in the previous issue the Coordination Office – the editorial center of "Spoils of War" – moved to Magdeburg at the beginning of January 1998. Please note the new address: Koordinierungsstelle der Länder für die Rückführung von Kulturgütern Kultusministerium des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt Turmschanzenstr. 32 39114 Magdeburg Tel. 391 - 567 3857 (secretary) 567 3858 (project leader) 567 3859 (scientist) Fax: 391 - 567 3856 Please note that the text of "Spoils of War", No. 5 as well as of the previously published numbers is to be found on internet, but the relevant address has changed recently: http://www.beutekunst.de/. The e-mail address of the editorial center, however, remained the same ([email protected]). As we still finance the newsletter with the contributions mainly of Belgium (Ministry of Economic Affairs), the Netherlands (Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Inspectorate of Cultural Heritage) and Germany (Coordination Office of the Federal States for the Return of Cultural Property), it is getting difficult for us to provide all interested private persons with a copy of "Spoils of War". To get a better overview who of the private persons are still interested and what their relation to the topic is we kindly ask them to write to the editorial center if they want to remain on the distribution list. In number 4 of "Spoils of War" we printed the text of the Russian law on "Cultural Values Removed to the U.S.S.R. as a Result of World Wart II and Located in the Territory of the Russian Federation" and comments from experts of different countries. One more comment is printed in this issue (see special reports, p.9). As you probably all know, the Russian Constitutional Court recently declined President Yeltsin's request not to have to sign the law because of formal reasons. The President had to sign and he did so shortly after Easter. At the same time he appealed to the Constitutional Court again, now because of his estimation, that this Russian law on the displaced cultural property is incompatible with international law. We certainly will inform you of the further development in this respect. The Russian edition of "Spoils of War" has been successfully printed and is being distributed among the Russian archives, libraries and other institutions concerned with the problem of spoils of war. We have received direct and indirect requests from 85 Russian institutions which are interested in getting both the Russian and English editions of the international newsletter. Please let the Russian editorial board member