Stern Cooperation Project
The Stern Cooperation Project (SCP) has been dealing with the history of the German art dealer family of Jewish descent Julius Stern, Selma Stern, Max Stern , Hedi Stern and Gerda Stern and with the history of the galleries that were owned by this family from 1913 to 1987 since 2018 . These are Galerie Stern (Düsseldorf), West's Galleries (London) and Dominion Gallery (Montreal).
background
The Stern Cooperation Project (SCP) has been dealing with a research area since 2018 that has been investigated by the Max Stern Art Restitution Project (MSARP) since 2002. While the MSARP focuses on the identification and return of stolen works of art, the SCP aims to reconstruct the persecution-related migration history of the family and their galleries.
The tasks of the SCP are connected with the questions of persecution-related confiscated cultural property ( looted art ), which have been increasingly researched since the beginning of the 21st century and which play central roles for the MSARP.
Public appeal
In order to reach a broad public, the SCP published the following call with the start of the project in July 2018.
"Institutions and people who have information about the Stern family, their galleries and their works of art are asked to make this available to the project ..."
Project partners and supporters
The SCP is a project of the Central Institute for Art History in Munich in collaboration with:
- Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Concordia University
- Max and Iris Stern Foundation, Montreal
The SCP is supported by:
- National Gallery of Canada
- Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
- Haifa Museums of Art
- McCord Museum Montreal
- Musée des Beaux-Arts Montreal
- The Israel Museum Jerusalem
- Leo Baeck Institute
The SCP is funded by:
- German Loss of Cultural Property Foundation
- Max and Iris Stern Foundation, Montreal
Web links
- Stern Cooperation Project (SCP) - Central Institute for Art History
- About Concordia University, Max Stern Art Restitution Project