Anja Heuss

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Anja Heuss (born March 3, 1964 in Baden-Baden ) is a German historian . Among other things, she deals with the subject of Nazi-looted art .

Life

Heuss studied German, philosophy and film studies in Frankfurt am Main. From 1992 she worked temporarily for the Jewish Claims Conference . In 1997, she conducted research on art objects that were confiscated by the Soviet government after the October Revolution , auctioned off by the Stalin government in Berlin auction houses in the mid-1920s and whose return (restitution) to the expropriated owners was rejected by the Court of Appeal . In 1998 she was the first researcher to describe the influence of the Reich Chamber of Culture on the Aryanization of the German art trade.

Heuss was in 1999 at the University of Frankfurt with a thesis on art and cultural robbery of the Nazis in France and the Soviet Union to Dr. phil. PhD . She was involved in the Bergier report for the Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - World War II .

Between 2001 and 2006 she worked as a historian and provenance researcher at the regional finance office in Berlin and was responsible, among other things, for the works of art from the collections of Hitler and Göring , which are now federally owned. Heuss was active as a visiting scholar at Bielefeld University in 2005/06 and worked in provenance research at the Württembergisches Landesmuseum and at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart from 2009 to 2014 .

Fonts

  • Stalin's auctions in Berlin . In: Sedimente 2 , Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Kunsthandels, Bonn, 1997, pp. 85–94.
  • The Reich Chamber of Culture and the control of the art trade in the Third Reich . In: Sedimente 3 , Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Kunsthandels, Bonn, 1998, pp. 49–62.
  • Theft of art and cultural assets. A comparative study on the occupation policy of the National Socialists in France and the Soviet Union. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-0994-0 (also dissertation , University of Frankfurt am Main 1999).
  • with Esther Tisa Francini and Georg Kreis : Fluchtgut - Raubgut. The transfer of cultural goods in and via Switzerland 1933-1945 and the question of restitution (=  publications of the Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - Second World War , Volume 1). Chronos, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-0340-0601-2 .
  • Provenance history . In: Maria Eichhorn: Restitution Policy. Politics of Restitution , ed. from the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, exhibition catalog, Munich 2003.
  • The Max Silberberg Collection in Breslau . In: Andrea Pophanken, Felix Billeter: Modernism and its collectors. French art in German private ownership from the Empire to the Weimar Republic . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003546-3 , pp. 311-325.
  • The Tintoretto: an isolated case? . In: Horst Keßler: Karl Haberstock . Controversial art dealer and patron . Edited by Christof Trepesch, with contributions by Anja Heuss, Ute Haug and Christof Trepesch. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-06779-0 , p. 56ff.
  • The Littmann Collection and the “Degenerate Art” campaign . In: Inka Bertz, Michael Dorrmann (eds.): Looted art and restitution. Jewish property from 1933 to the present day . Published on behalf of the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0361-4 , pp. 69 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GND entry
  2. ↑ Der Spiegel : Fischer at the table . 48/1998
  3. ^ Britta Janssen (dpa): Unrecognized: looted art in German art museums . In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 22, 2002
  4. ↑ Visiting scholars of the Department of History at Bielefeld University : Short biography with a list of their publications
  5. ↑ Provenance research at the State Museum ; Provenance research in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and in the Landesmuseum Württemberg .
personal data
SURNAME Heuss, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden-Baden