Stern Cooperation Project (SCP)
In July 2018, the initial phase of the Stern Cooperation Project (SCP) started. The international project is focused on the history of the German art dealer family of Jewish origin Julius Stern, Selma Stern, Max Stern, Hedi Stern and Gerda Stern and on the business history of the Stern-owned galleries Galerie Stern (Düsseldorf, Germany), West’s Galleries (London), and Dominion Gallery (Montreal) in the years 1913-1987.[1]
Description
SCP thus enters terrain that has been the research field of the Max Stern Art Restitution Project (MSARP) since 2002.[2] While MSARP focuses on the return of individual art works that had been looted, SCP has a much broader mission: In transnational, transdisciplinary cooperation, SCP attempts to reconstruct the forced migration of both family and business. It provides strategies that aid researchers who face similar challenges in reconstructing trajectories of persecution as they affect individuals and enterprises. It is inevitable, however, that the findings of SCP intersect with provenance questions of the art world in relation to Nazi looted art, and specifically with the concerns of the Max Stern Art Restitution Project (MSARP).
Call for Information
Institutions and individuals are being asked to provide information to the Stern Cooperation Project (SCP) regarding the Stern Family, their galleries and artworks.[3]
Project partners & supporters
SCP is a project of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, in cooperation with The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Art History, Concordia University, Montreal; and the Max and Iris Stern Foundation, Montreal. SCP is endorsed by the National Gallery of Canada | Musée des beaux-arts du Canada; Haifa Museums of Art, McCord Museum Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Israel Museum Jerusalem, Leo Baeck Institute New York. SCP is funded by the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste and the Max and Iris Stern Foundation, Montreal.
Weblinks
- Homepage of Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany
- Homepage of the Max Stern Art Restitution Project
References
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