Provenance & Research

The Washington Conference of 1998 and the hence adopted “Washington Principles” laid the foundation for provenance research regarding Nazi-confiscated cultural property in Germany. On the anniversary of this momentous occasion, the German Lost Art Foundation hosted the international conference “20 Years Washington Principles: Roadmap for the Future” in Berlin in November 2018. This issue illustrates highlights of the program: various stakeholders take stock of what has been achieved over the past twenty years, current developments and future challenges are being discussed and the results of practice-oriented workshops are summarized.