Sotheby\\\'s Symposium: Restitution

10.00
Welcome:
Andrea Jungmann
Managing Director, Sotheby s Austria

Introduction:
Richard Aronowitz-Mercer
Head of Department, Sotheby s Restitution Department Europe

10.00-13.00
Moderation:
Isabel von Klitzing and Richard Aronowitz-Mercer
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10.10-10.30
Agnes Peresztegi
European Director, Commission for Art Recovery, Budapest
“Hungarian National Treasures or Stolen Artwork? The Herzog Collection”

10.40-11.00
Dr. Imke Gielen
Lawyer for German and International Restitution Law
in respect to Lost Art, Berlin
“Amicable Settlements - A few practical and legal thoughts”
* * *
Coffee break
* * *
11.30-11.50
Georg von Pezold
Case of Adolf Schwarzenberg, Vienna
“Reconstructing Adolph: Schwarzenberg - Hluboká claim”

12.00-12.20
Anne Webber
Co-Chair, Commission for Looted Art in Europe, London
“Research and Restitution: Recent Cases in Austria and Germany”
12.30-13.00

Questions & debate
* * *
13.00-14.30
Lunch break
* * *
14.30-18.00
Moderation:
Britta Olenyi von Husen and Filip Marco
* * *
14.40-15.00
Konstantin Akinsha
Art historian, an independent scholar in Washington, D.C.
and contributing editor to ARTnews magazine,
co-author of Beautiful Loot: The Soviet Plunder of Europe\'s Art Treasures (1995),
Moscow / Kiev /Washington D.C.
“Is restitution from Russia still possible?”

15.10-15.30
Dr. Andrea Bambi
Chief Curator and Art Provenance Research ,
Die Pinakotheken im Kunstareal - Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich
“Provenance Research for the Collections of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen -
At the Office of Ernst Buchner 1933-1945”.
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Coffee break
* * *
16.00-16.20
Dr. Tomas Kraus
Executive Director, Jewish Community, Prague
“The Prague Holocaust Era Assets Conference and European Shoah Legacy Institute”

16.30-16.50
MMag. Dr. Michael Wladika
Provenance research and Restitution, Wien Museum, Vienna
\"Die Änderung des Kunstrückgabegesetzes 1998 vom 23. November 2009.
Problematik und Perspektiven\" (in German)

17.00-18.00
Debate & closing remarks

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