Monika Tatzkow

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Monika Tatzkow (* 1954 ) is a German historian .

Life

Tatzkow completed a degree in history at the Humboldt University in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1986 on the development of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the German Democratic Republic. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall , she worked as a historian at the Academy of Sciences . After 1989, Tatzkow conducted research on open property issues in Berlin, and later on looted art .

Together with Jost von Trott zu Solz , Tatzkow participated in the world's first return after the Washington Declaration on Art Restitution : a Van Gogh drawing from the Silberberg collection that was kept in the Berlin State Museums . In addition, she researches art objects around the world, for example in the USA, Switzerland, England and Russia. It achieved releases and agreements with those affected in all relevant countries and works as a cooperation partner for museums, previous owners and current owners.

Fonts

  • Gunnar Schnabel, Monika Tatzkow: Nazi Looted Art. Handbook Art Restitution Worldwide . Proprietas-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-019368-2
  • With Melissa Müller : Lost pictures, lost lives - Jewish collectors and what became of their works of art . Elisabeth-Sandmann, Munich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-938045-30-5 .

Movie

  • Marina Farschid (script and direction): On the trail of the Liebermann collection. An art thriller. RBB, 2014. 29 min. The documentary shows the search for the large and famous private art collection of Max Liebermann . Tatzkow explains different approaches taken by owners of looted art in the past decades and the difficulties involved in restitution.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Tatzkow: The development of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the German Democratic Republic and its role in the inclusion of the bourgeoisie in the establishment of the foundations of socialism (1953 to 1958) , Akademie d. Pedag. Knowledge d. GDR, Berlin 1986
  2. ↑ Die Welt from June 4, 1999, article: Berlin Museum returns Van Gogh drawing [1]
  3. ↑ The authors Monika: Tatzkow and Gunnar Schnabel , welt.de
  4. ↑ Press information from the producing station about the film ... ( Memento from September 29, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Tatzkow, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1954