Meike Hoffmann Lecture

Meike Hoffmann Lecture

Friday, March 13, 3PM-4:30 PM
Art Institute of Chicago, Nichols Trustees Suite, Modern Wing
Meike Hoffmann Lecture

The Mosse Art Research Initiative (MARI):  A Beacon of International Provenance Research

As one of the most influential figures of the Berlin business elite in Imperial Germany, publisher and philanthropist Rudolf Mosse established an art collection of several thousand works beginning in the 1880s. During the Third Reich, the National Socialists forced Rudolf Mosse's heirs to leave the country and liquidated the valuable art collection. What happened to the works of art and where are they today? Since March 2017, the Mosse Art Research Initiative (MARI) at Freie Universität Berlin has been addressing these questions. The project is innovative in many ways and of high political relevance. For the first time, descendants of victims of National Socialist persecution have agreed to cooperate with public institutions in Germany and work side-by-side in a provenance research project. In this lecture, Meike Hoffmann, Director of MARI, will introduce the fate of the Mosse family, the project, and current results. A Q&A session will follow. 

This event is organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago and co-sponsored with the Art Institute of Chicago.