Katja Terlau

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Katja Terlau 2019

Katja Terlau (born April 29, 1970 in Münster ) is a German art historian and provenance researcher. She was a co-initiator and founding member of the international "Working Group on Provenance Research eV" founded in Germany in 2000 and, according to the Washington Declaration in 1998, is considered a pioneer in German provenance research . Her main subject area is Nazi looted art ; A number of museum holdings and large Jewish collections have been processed by it.

Career

Terlau studied art history, history of archeology and prehistory and early history in Münster and Cologne . There she completed her master's degree in art history and archeology in 1995. In 1998 she completed her doctorate at the University of Cologne with a dissertation entitled The Holy Cross Church in Stromberg and her position within the Westphalian Hallenkirchen. After working as a museum assistant at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne from 1999 to 2000, she researched the provenance of all works of art produced between 1933 and 1945 for the Wallraf-Richartz Museum as part of a project funded by the Sal.-Oppenheim Foundation until 2003 had been acquired. In 2001, in this context, she organized the international colloquium Museums in Twilight - Acquisition Policy 1933-1945 in Cologne.

Since 2003, Terlau has worked as a freelance art historian with provenance research and advice for museums, foundations, private collections and the media. In this context it provided, for example 2003/2004 to provide scientific advice for the film The legacy of the fathers - as the Otto Wolff Group has been severally in the WDR series the story . The projects of the following years included provenance research on works of art owned by the Federal Republic of Germany (2009-2010), the determination of provenance in the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf (2010-2015 with interruptions) as well as two projects of the German Center for the Loss of Cultural Property ( Witten and Krefeld , 2015-2016) . For the heirs of the art dealer Jacques Goudstikker , who had to flee Germany as a Jew in 1940, Clemens Toussaint's team localized numerous objects in the collection, some of which were returned.

On behalf of the Research Center for “ Degenerate Art ” at the Free University of Berlin, in 2013 she examined the paintings and graphic works in the art collections of the city of Düsseldorf in order to identify the objects confiscated by the National Socialists in 1937.

From 2011 to 2013 she acted together with Anja Heuss as the spokesperson for the Provenance Research Working Group, which she co-founded. In addition, she has been the initiator and moderator of the Provenance Research Working Group in North Rhine-Westphalia since 2013 . In addition, from 2012 to 2014 she was a member of the advisory board of the Magdeburg coordination office at the German Loss of Cultural Property Center. In 2017, the Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen and the Museum Folkwang in Essen commissioned Terlau to examine the acquisitions made by the Hermann and Aenne Abels galleries from 1933 to 1968.

Katja Terlau has been a lecturer at the Art History Institute of the University of Cologne since the 2015 summer semester.

In 2018 she founded the art history consultancy Terlau & Voigt together with Vanessa Voigt. In 2019, the two researchers determined, among other things, the legality of the transfer of ownership of four Mondrian paintings in the Krefeld Art Museum .

Publications (selection)

Monographs
  • The new building of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne (=  booklets of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum ). Cologne 2000.
  • The St. Kreuzkirche in Stromberg and its position within the Westphalian hall churches (dissertation) (=  66th publication by the Department of Architectural History of the Art History Institute of the University of Cologne ). Cologne 1998.
Essays
  • The choir chapels of Cologne Cathedral and Westphalian architecture using the example of the Church of the Holy Cross in Stromberg. A comparative construction study . In: Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch . tape LXI . Cologne 2000, p. 7-22 .
  • Restitution of the painting “Landscape with a Broken Bridge” in the style of Meindest Hobbema from the Frederico Gentili di Giuseppe collection . In: contributions from public institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany on dealing with cultural property from former Jewish property (=  Publications of the Coordination Office for Lost Cultural Assets . No. 1 ). Magdeburg 2001, p. 186-193 .
  • The Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and its purchasing policy 1933-1945. Preliminary research report . In: Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch . tape LXII , 2001, p. 277-292 .
  • Oswald Mathias Ungers and the new building of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne . In: form and style. Festschrift for Günther Binding for his 65th birthday . Darmstadt 2001, p. 387-393 .
  • The Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in the period 1933-1945 . In: Museums in Twilight - Your Own History. Conference proceedings Cologne and Hamburg (=  publications of the coordination office for the loss of cultural assets ). 2nd Edition. tape 2 , no. 31-49 . Magdeburg 2007.
  • Hildebrand Gurlitt and the Art trade during the Nazi Period . In: American Association of Museums (Ed.): Vitalizing Memory. International Perspectives on Provenance Research . Washington 2005, p. 165-171 .
  • with Nina Senger: Provenance research methodology using the example of the collection of the art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam . In: AKMB news, information on art, museums and libraries . tape 2 , 2005, p. 27-32 .
  • 10 years of the “Provenance Research Working Group”, a field report . In: The responsibility continues. Posts German institutions to deal with Nazi-confiscated art (=  Publications of the Coordination Office for Lost Cultural Assets . No. 8 ). Magdeburg 2010, p. 335-350 .
  • Hildebrand Gurlitt (1895–1956) and his sphere of activity during the Nazi era . In: Johannes Heil and Annette Weber (eds.): Ersesse Kunst - The Gurlitt case . Berlin 2015, p. 19-36 .
  • Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität zu Köln (Ed.): Annotated auction catalogs from the period 1933-1945 in the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, and the art dealer Eduard Plietzsch (1886-1961) . Cologne April 15, 2017 ( online publication [PDF]).
  • Hermann Haller (1880–1950). Guided by encounters with people - figures and portraits formed . In: Ottfried Dascher and Helen Shiner (eds.): The jump into space. Sculptures by Alfred Flechtheim . Wädenswil 2017, p. 219-247 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Museums in Twilight - Your Own History. Conference proceedings Cologne and Hamburg (=  publications of the coordination office for the loss of cultural assets . Volume 2 ). 2nd Edition. Magdeburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811367-1-5 , pp. 505 .
  2. ↑ Dr. Katja Terlau. In: Provenance Research Portal. Retrieved on August 1, 2019 (only after registration, general area "Provenance Network").
  3. ↑ History of the working group. In: Arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung.org. Retrieved July 18, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The investigators. In: sueddeutsche.de. October 26, 2018, accessed July 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Katja Terlau: The Holy Cross Church in Stromberg and its position within the Westphalian hall churches (= Kunsthistorisches Institut Köln, Department of Architectural History [Hrsg.]: Publications of the Department of Architectural History of the Art History Institute of the University of Cologne . No. 66 ).
  6. ^ Christiane Hoffmans: Pictures with a dark prehistory. December 30, 2001, accessed December 30, 2001 .
  7. ↑ a b c projects / references. In: provenienzforschung.de. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Provenance research. In: kunstpalast.de. Museum Kunstpalast, accessed November 29, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Philip Kardel: Braunschweiger Goudstikker Restitution . In: Kunstrechtsspiegel . tape 1 , 2014, p. 24 ( digitized at journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).
  10. ↑ Courage for the gap! How do you research, present and convey what is not there? Using the example of the exhibition “SPOT ON: 1937. The 'Degenerate Art' campaign in Düsseldorf”. In: lvr.de. 2017, accessed August 1, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Christopher Stolz: Two museums examine Abels works. July 10, 2017, accessed August 1, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Lecturer. In: khi.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de. Philosophical Faculty - Art History Institute, accessed on July 18, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Take a deep breath in the Krefeld town hall. Krefeld Mondrian case: Provenance dossier supports the position of the city of Krefeld. In: wz.de. July 2, 2019, accessed July 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Terlau, Katja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and provenance researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster