Nederlands Kunstbezit-collectie explained

The Netherlands Art Property Collection (NK collection) is an art collection of recovered works of art that accrued to the Dutch state after World War II. This concerns works of art that were looted by the Nazi regime in the Netherlands or were purchased under duress or otherwise.[1] The collection is managed by the Cultural Heritage Agency and is part of the national collection. The works may be on loan from Dutch museums or government buildings, and some are also stored in depots.

History

Nazi Germany plundered artworks in every country it controlled from Jewish collectors, museums, libraries and churches. After the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, the Allied Monuments Men located the stolen artworks and returned them to the governments of the countries where they had been stolen, with the understanding that the governments would then restitute them to their original owners. In many cases, however, the receiving countries kept the artworks and did not restitute them.[2]

Nazi-looted artworks recovered by the Allies and restituted after 1945 to the Netherlands came under the administration of the Dutch state. The state had the task of restoring the works to their rightful owners or their heirs; the Netherlands Art Property Foundation (SNK) was established for this purpose.[3] There were problems. Many artworks that had been looted from Jewish owners were not restituted to the heirs due to lengthy and difficult procedures, as in the case of the Goudstikker heirs. As a result of abuses, the SNK was disbanded on 1 July 1950 and its activities transferred to the Ministry of Finance.[4] The national interest seemed to prevail; for example, the Ministry of Finance saw the collection as a means of replenishing the State treasury.[5] From 1949 to 1953, auctions took place of items that could not be returned, and the artworks that eventually remained were placed in the NK collection.[6] Officials working for the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit included the Monuments Men Robert de Vries (1905-1983),Nicolaas Rudolph Alexander Vroom (1915-1995), Louis Jacob Florus Wijsenbeek (1912-1985), Karel Gerald Boon (1909-1996), David Cornelis Röell, Jonkheer (1894-1961) and the Dutch painter Otto Verhagen (1919-2003).[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

In 1998, the Origins Unknown Agency ("Herkomst Gezocht") (BHG) was established with the aim of conducting systematic research into the provenance history of all individual works of art.[13] At the start of the research, the collection consisted of some 4,700 items, including paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, as well as silver, carpets and furniture.[14] [15] The BHG's research ran until 2005, and since 2001 several hundred works from the NK Collection have been returned.[16] [17] [18] [19]

In 2002 a study was published, Betwist bezit, which was commissioned by the BHG and concluded that in the early years of the SNK the priority was not the return of looted art to its rightful owners.[20] "It did not take long before they concluded: we can better house them in a museum. Restitution was secondary."[21]

The Origins Unknown Agency was dissolved in 2007.[22]

After the disbandment of the BHG, the database and accompanying website they compiled came under the management of NIOD's Expertise Center for Restitution, as of 2018.[23] [24] [25]

In 2020 a Dutch commission found the Netherlands' art restitution panel showed "too little empathy" to victims of Nazi aggression and sided too often with museums.[26]

On January 1, 2022, the BHG database and website were transferred to the Cultural Heritage Agency with a new online NK Collection portal.[27]

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Zie de categorie Collection Nederlands Kunstbezit van Wikimedia Commons voor mediabestanden over dit onderwerp.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: NK-collectie. 21 May 2021. Restitutiecommissie.
  2. Web site: Kaplan. Isaac. 3 Cases That Explain Why Restituting Nazi Looted Art Is So Difficult. https://web.archive.org/web/20180723200152/https://www.lootedart.com/news.php%3Fr%3DSJ4OAA648481. 2018-07-23. 2022-01-28. www.lootedart.com. Artsy. rather than return work to each heir, the allies decided give the paintings back to the rightful governments (which often were still anti-Semitic) for ultimate restitution.
  3. Web site: SNK Declaration Forms. https://web.archive.org/web/20211027033741/http://www.herkomstgezocht.nl/en/infosnk. 2021-10-27. herkomstgezocht.nl. The Netherlands Art Property Foundation was founded by the Dutch government to recuperate and restitute works of art, and used the thusly gathered information to trace and retrieve works of art in Germany..
  4. Web site: 2.08.42 Inventaris van het archief van de Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit (SNK) en haar taakvoorganger / taakopvolgers, (1930) 1945-1951 (1983). 22 May 2021. Nationaal Archief.
  5. News: de Cocq. Marjolein. 28 November 2002. Individu op tweede plan bij terughalen roofkunst nazi's. Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant.
  6. News: de Cocq. Marjolein. 28 November 2002. Individu op tweede plan bij terughalen roofkunst nazi's. Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant., in her review of Book: Muller, Eelke. Betwist bezit : de Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit en de teruggave van roofkunst na 1945. 2002. Waanders. Helen Schretlen. 90-400-8703-2. Zwolle. 901922106.
  7. Web site: de Vries, Maj. A. B. Monuments Men and Women Monuments Men Foundation . 2023-07-21 . MonumentsMenWomenFnd . en.
  8. Web site: Vroom, Lt. Dr. N. R. A. Monuments Men and Women Monuments Men Foundation . 2023-07-21 . MonumentsMenWomenFnd . en.
  9. Web site: Wijsenbeek, Maj. L. J. F. Monuments Men and Women Monuments Men Foundation . 2023-07-21 . MonumentsMenWomenFnd . en.
  10. Web site: Boon, Dr. Karel G. Monuments Men and Women Monuments Men Foundation . 2023-07-21 . MonumentsMenWomenFnd . en.
  11. Web site: Röell, Jhr. Dr. D.C. Monuments Men and Women Monuments Men Foundation . 2023-07-21 . MonumentsMenWomenFnd . en.
  12. Web site: Ontdek schilder, tekenaar, museumdirecteur Otto Verhagen (1919-2003) . 2023-07-21 . rkd.nl . nl.
  13. Web site: Origins Unknown . 2022-01-28. www.herkomstgezocht.nl.
  14. Web site: NK-COLLECTIE. 22 May 2021. NIOD.
  15. Web site: Ministerie van Volksgezondheid. Welzijn en Sport. 2011-10-20. Restitution - Second World War - Government.nl. 2022-01-28. www.government.nl. en-GB.
  16. Web site: NK collection and restitution. 2022-01-28. www.mauritshuis.nl. en-US.
  17. Web site: Painting in NK Collection Returned to Heirs of Alfred and Fanny Mautner. 2022-01-28. Restitutiecommissie. en-US.
  18. Web site: 2003-06-30. Dutch government yields Nazi-looted 'NK collection'. 2022-01-28. The Art Newspaper - International art news and events.
  19. Web site: Restitution_Committee_Report_2013.
  20. Book: Muller, Eelke. Betwist bezit : de Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit en de teruggave van roofkunst na 1945. 2002. Waanders. Helen Schretlen. 90-400-8703-2. Zwolle. 901922106.
  21. News: de Cocq. Marjolein. 28 November 2002. Individu op tweede plan bij terughalen roofkunst nazi's. Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant., in her review of Book: Muller, Eelke. Betwist bezit : de Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit en de teruggave van roofkunst na 1945. 2002. Waanders. Helen Schretlen. 90-400-8703-2. Zwolle. 901922106.
  22. News: Siegal. Nina. 2020-12-07. Dutch Panel for Looted Art Claims Must Change Course, Report Finds. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-11-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20210629223844/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/arts/netherlands-looted-art-report.html. 2021-06-29. 0362-4331.
  23. Web site: Expert Centre Restitution (ECR). 2022-01-28. www.niod.nl. en.
  24. Web site: Herkomst Gezocht. 22 May 2021. NIOD.
  25. Web site: Dutch Centre of Expertise for the Restitution of Cultural Goods and the Second World War. 2022-01-28. www.lootedart.com.
  26. News: Siegal . Nina . 2020-12-07 . Dutch Panel for Looted Art Claims Must Change Course, Report Finds . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-07-01 . 0362-4331.
  27. Web site: Origins Unknown . 2022-01-28. www.herkomstgezocht.nl. On this website, you will find provenance data and other information about the NK-collection compiled by the former Origins Unknown Agency (BHG). As of 1 January 2022, the database and website of the BHG have been transferred to the Cultural Heritage Agency. At the new portal of NK Collection you will find available and new information about characteristics, restitution status and provenance, brought together..

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