Dr Liza Weber
@WeberLiza
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Art/Historian specialising in Provenance Research of Nazi-Looted Art. Lecturer in Art Business @SothebysInst. Researcher & Writer.
London/Berlin
Joined April 2012
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve started a new position as Lecturer in Art Business at @SothebysInst, joining the MA in Art Business team (@davibellingham, @MelanieFasche, @OliverP_G, Alice Farren-Bradley, @maximovamar, & Katie Hill). Now to meet the students...!
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On 04.12, @SothebysInst students joined me for a workshop on provenance research at the National Art Library @V_and_A, where they pored over the Nazis complete inventory of “Degenerate Art”, the infamous 1939 Galerie Fischer Auction, and a series of forced sales catalogues.
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Venice Biennale Day I: It was a joy to see @SothebysInst MAAB students absorbed in the history of the exhibition at Asac-The Biennale Library during my workshop ‘Looking Forward & Back at the Biennale’. With four gate-crashers, I had to tear them away from their books!
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RT @WIGSblog: New W+IGS Chair! Welcome to our new Chair Prof Christiane Schönfeld, Head of German at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick &…
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It was a joy to deliver my first lecture at @SothebysInst on ‘Impressionist, Modern, & Post-War Markets: Protagonists, Institutions, & Histories’, from familiar names such as Paul Durand-Ruel to lesser-known like Berthe Weill, concluding with a quiz on the Art Basel & UBS Survey.
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Friday started early with a breakfast of blinis & poached pear for a panel discussion on 'From Shadows to Spotlight: Art #Provenance in the New Regulatory Era' @Tate. I was proud to see @AngelinaGiovani among them, speaking about the market's transparency, or rather lack thereof!
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Full steam ahead to @itsartlaw's 'Nazi-Looted Art Restitution' project, which was presented today in a webinar with Amanda Buonaiuto, Irina Tarsis, Richard Aronowitz, & Peter Toren. With 300 cases and counting, the project is seeking volunteers, data, and donations...
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Calling for a cross-boarder approach for recovering looted art, @ecampfens1 proposes 1) a neutral knowledge centre for provenance research & 2) a central alternative dispute resolution mechanism. After all, looted art is a “matter of human rights”.
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Last night we welcomed a new cohort of Master’s degree students at @SothebysInst with a drinks reception at @TwoTemplePlace, a neo-Gothic gem of a building on London’s Embankment. The staircase was sublime. The company cordial. But, best of all, would you look at the canapés!
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If the soaring glissandi of The Klezmer Society were anything to go by—not to mention the cooing calls of the macaque in the guided tour of ARTIS as a hiding place for Jews during WWII—the ‘Future of #Restitution’ is loud & clear: more noise needs to be made about it!
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The annual meeting of the @AKProvenienz (Working Group of #Provenance Researchers) kicked off in style with a drinks reception at the @rijksmuseum. Thanks goes to all the organisers of the #Looted symposium: @LevydeGruyter, Aurora Wilson Dyer Gough, @meikehopp & more…
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On #InternationalLiteracyDay, travelling on a train through Europe, I want to share a passage from Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Kairos’, which deftly captures Germany’s generational divide at the time of reunification. Erpenbeck is certainly up there with my favourite contemporary writers.
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It was an intimate experience to visit ‘Cosmopolis: The Impact of Refugee Art Dealers in London” @BenUriOnline — both in terms of the viewing experience (as the sole visitor) & the extent to which the curation traced how intricately linked the postwar artistic émigré network was.
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@Czapsticks @SothebysInst @davibellingham @MelanieFasche @OliverP_G @maximovamar Thanks, Dom! We should catch up over a dance performance soon.
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Tonight @wienerlibrary, Kinga Bloch (@lbi_london) & her “Book Detectives” talked about The Library of Lost Books, a citizen science project that is far from over… While 4,500+ lost books have been identified, there are still thousands more to find. #haveyouseenthisbook
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And that’s a wrap! @WIGSblog’s conference @UCC, organised by the wonderful @RLRMcGovern & @MarninaW, was a welcome reminder of what academia can be: a safe space for genuine exchange, free from the ‘Boundaries & Barriers’ of hierarchies & competition, if to borrow from the title!
Final day of the WIGS conference in Cork. Three great papers followed by the AGM. Thanks so much for hosting @RLRMcGovern
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RT @WIGSblog: Thanks to our conference organisers @RLRMcGovern and @MarninaW from our WIGS committee members! Thanks to all our presenters…
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