Objects on the Art Market: Original oder Fälschung – eine Frage der Expertise?
Berlin, 15.–16. November 2019
The symposium “Objects on the Art Market: Original oder Fälschung – eine Frage der Expertise?” was organised by the Forum Kunst und Markt / Centre for Art Market Studies at the TU Berlin in cooperation with PD Dr. Waltraut M. Bayer (FWF project “Private Kunstmuseen und Stiftungen russischer Oligarchen”), Vienna, and funded by the DFG and the Wissenschaftsfonds FWF.

German-French Research Programme 2018-2019
Art Market and Art Collecting from 1900 to the Present in Germany and France
The German-French Research Programme 2018–2019 “Art Market and Art Collecting from 1900 to the Present in Germany and France” was organised by the Forum Kunst und Markt / Centre for Art Market Studies at TU Berlin and the Centre Georg Simmel at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in collaboration with the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris. The German-French Research Programme 2018–2019 was funded by the UFA/DFH.

The Global Power of Private Museums: Arts and Publics – States and Markets
Berlin, November 16–18, 2017
The international conference “The Global Power of Private Museums: Arts and Publics – States and Markets” was organised by the Forum Kunst und Markt / Centre for Art Market Studies at TU Berlin in cooperation with the Forum Transregionale Studien c/o Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, and its research programme Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices. The conference was funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.

Art Theft – Art Market – Art Propaganda:
The material and ideological appropriation of Rembrandt under National Socialism

Dr. Dorothee Wimmer
This research project, centering on the material and ideological appropriation of Rembrandt under National Socialism, analyzes the interdependence between propaganda and the trade in works by Rembrandt in the “Third Reich”, comparing this to the periods before and after the period of National Socialism.

Symbolic Capital? Prices at the Louvre around 1800
Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy
In early 1810 the French government passed a law requiring all state museums to systematically list their complete holdings.

The Art Market Dictionary – AMD

Dr. Johannes Nathan
The AMD is the first encompassing dictionary on the art market and its historic development. Published in English, the AMD will provide invaluable access to information on the trade’s principal agents such as auction houses, commercial galleries, art dealers and advisors.

The Founding of the Auction House Hôtel Drouot 1852 in Paris

Dr. des. Lukas Fuchsgruber
In 1852, the newly erected auction house Hôtel Drouot opened its doors to the public. Here, the Association of Auctioneers proceeded with the sale of artworks, furniture, decorative art, fashion, and curiosities.

Repertory: The French Art Market During during German Occupation in World War II
Dr. Elisabeth Furtwängler

TEAA – Tracing East Asian Art
Dr. Christine Howald
The forced opening of East Asia in the mid-nineteenth century suddenly opened an enormous market of original art treasures, setting off a wildfire of euphoria for asiatica in the West. The present research project contrasts the international actors and their transnational networks, both of which influenced the Western engagement with the art of the Far East.

Acquisitions made by the Berlin State Museums on the Parisian Art Market during the Occupation 1940-1944
Mattes Lammert, M.A.

Better than Gold? Art in Storage Spaces of the 21^st Century
Dr. Christoph Rausch

Eiserner Vorhang zwischen Ost und West? Kunsthandel zwischen der Kunst und Antiquitäten GmbH der DDR und westlichen Auktionshäusern
Xenia Schiemann, M.A.