Symposium | Kunst- und Kulturgüter in Zirkulation – Forschungsperspektiven auf den Auktionsmarkt

In the organizer's words:

The business records of auction houses rarely reach the public domain. However, the information they contain offers the potential to provide indispensable data for numerous fields of research, as art trade files are often the only surviving sources for changes of ownership, especially in the case of private sales.

The Hauswedell & Nolte archive (ZADIK, A 100), donated to ZADIK by Gabriele Braun-Nolte and Ernst Nolte in May 2016, was the first time that the company archive of an important book, autograph and art auction house, which was founded before the Second World War and existed until 2016, came into the possession of a publicly accessible German archive. In September 2024, the partial digitization and indexing of the archive holdings financed by the German Lost Art Foundation was completed.

The Hauswedell & Nolte collection offers a wealth of potential for a wide range of specialist disciplines. At the 1.5-day symposium, various interdisciplinary research approaches and approaches to dealing with research data on the subject of the auction market will be presented and discussed.

Event language: German and English.

Price information:

Registration via Eventbrite is only required for on-site participation and is free of charge. The symposium will also be broadcast digitally via Zoom. You can participate via the following link: https://uni-koeln.zoom.us/j/97368842402?pwd=RH7izL9aGxbk9egkDaf9KdRqLJxHlD.1 Meeting-ID: 973 6884 2402 Password: 036784