of the 4th, 5th, 8th and 9th symphonies, and Piano Concertos no. 1-3 and 5. Why does the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin have so many of Beethoven’s best works? Part of the reason is the skillful acquisition
raisonné and auction catalogues of 1934, it must have contained over 1,000 individual works of art. For this reason, MARI’s most important tasks are to reconstruct the inventory and locate the works acquired
order in which the inventory of the Louvre was to be distributed: “1. The art objects whose future use the Führer has reserved the right to decide, 2. The art objects that will complete the Marshal of [...] gesture to its socialist “brothers,” the Soviet Union returned about 1.5…
dating up to 1947 are to be digitised: that amounts to around 1,300 thread-bound file volumes, 200 volumes of so-called main catalogues, and 85 volumes of incoming mail registers. Fine: That is a
, and were destroyed as supposed devil’s work or sold. Around 1,500 Naga objects are now housed in the Ethnological Museum, which is planning an open-access platform dedicated to them. Together with
The second major project was the exhibition ‘Russians and Germans: 1,000 Years of Art, History and Culture’, which was shown in 2012 at the Historical Museum in Moscow and the Neues Museum in Berlin. We
our metadata – and we are currently in the process of converting 1 million index cards containing sheet music, books, libretti and sound recordings from the music department, in other words, making
für Asiatische Kunst has been closed to the public since January 1, 2017, while we get everything ready for the move to the Humboldt Forum. I have long been planning to use this time to sort out the [...] digitally recorded in its entirety, only in part [as a catalog of 1,200 selected…
at acquisitions made between 1933 and 1945. That amounts to about 1,200 works. In the first phase of the project, that number was reduced still further. First, I checked to see what was actually there
embroidery with Anni Albers’ Bauhaus textiles from 1927 and the 1,500-year-old Huari men’s shirt from Peru, a dialogue transcending time and space emerges concerning making and thinking in the material