Art Provenance and Claims Research Project
Descriptive List of Key Records
Munich Central Collecting Point
(a)
Record Group & Series: RG 260, Records of the U.S. Occupation Headquarters,
World War II, Office of the Military Governor, United States (OMGUS), Property Division, Records Concerning the Central Collecting
Points (Ardelia Hall Collection), Records of the Munich Central Collecting
Point, Records Relating to Munich Central Collecting Point Property Restitutions, 1945-1950. (Entry 520)
Description: Property cards includes such information as author or artists, measurements, depot processor, any identifying marks, subject of art, material or medium used, condition of object, description of object, the presumed owner, inventory number, and sometimes a photograph of the object. Arranged by the country of restitution and thereunder by property accession number. Cards are double-sided.
Although not always provided, the front of property cards contained space for the following information:
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The back of the cards contained space for the following additional information although it is not always provided in this series:
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Volume: One 12 1/4" x 8 1/4" (PHO-G) archives box (.336 cu. ft.)
Location: 390/45/27/05; box 490.
(b)
Record Group & Series: RG 260, Records of the U.S. Occupation Headquarters,
World War II, Office of the Military Governor, United States (OMGUS), Property Division, Records Concerning the Central Collecting
Points (Ardelia Hall Collection), Records of the Munich Central Collecting
Point, Records Relating to Munich Central Collecting Point Property Accession, 1945-1949. (Entry 521)
Description: Property cards includes such information as author or artists, measurements, depot processor, any identifying marks, subject of art, material or medium used, condition of object, description of object, the presumed owner, inventory number, and sometimes a photograph of the object. Arranged by property accession number.
Although not always provided, the front of property cards contained space for the following information:
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The back of the cards contained space for the following additional information although it is not always provided in this series:
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Volume: Forty-nine 12 1/4" x 8 1/4" (PHO-G) archives boxes (16.464 cu.ft.)
Location: 390/45/27/05-390/45/29/01; boxes 491-539.
(c)
Record Group & Series: RG 260, Records of the U.S. Occupation Headquarters,
World War II, Office of the Military Governor, United States (OMGUS), Property Division, Records Concerning the Central Collecting
Points ("Ardelia Hall Collection"), Records of the Munich Central Collecting
Point, Records Relating to Munich Central Collecting Point Property Transfers. 1945-1949. (Entry 522)
Description: Property cards includes such information as author or artists, measurements, depot processor, any identifying marks, subject of art, material or medium used, condition of object, description of object, the presumed owner, inventory number, and sometimes a photograph of the object. Arranged roughly by transfer locality and thereunder by property accession number. Cards are double-sided.
Although not always provided, the front of property cards contained space for the following information:
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The back of the cards contained space for the following additional information although it is not always provided in this series:
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Volume: 9 12 1/4" x 8 1/4" (PHO-G) archives boxes (3.024 cu. ft.).
Location: 390/45/29/01-03; boxes 540-548.
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Record Group & Series: RG 260, Records of the U.S. Occupation Headquarters,
World War II, Office of the Military Governor, United States (OMGUS), Property Division, Records Concerning the Central Collecting
Points ("Ardelia Hall Collection"), Records of the Munich Central Collecting Point, Records Relating to the Linz Accession
to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 1945-1949. (Entry 523)
Description: Double-sided property cards includes such information as author or artists, measurements, depot processor, any identifying marks, subject of art, material or medium used, condition of object, description of object, the presumed owner, and inventory number. Arranged by Linz accession number.
Although not always provided, the front of property cards contained space for the following information:
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The back of the cards contained space for the following additional information although it is not always provided in this series:
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Volume: Two, 12 1/4" x 8 1/4" (PHO-G) archives boxes (.672 cu. ft.).
Location: 390/45/29/03-04; boxes 549-550.
(e)
Record Group & Series: RG 260, Records of the U.S. Occupation Headquarters,
World War II, Office of the Military Governor, United States (OMGUS), Property Division, Records of the Central Collection
Point ("Ardelia Hall Collection"), Records of the Munich Central Collecting Point, Restitution Research Records, 1933-1950. (Entry 519)
Description: Captured German documents (originals and photostatic copies) relating to German art looting in Europe, reports concerning individuals prominent in the European art world, catalogues of art losses and reports concerning them for certain cultural institutions, investigative files of individuals suspected of unauthorized possession or sale of cultural objects, and interrogation reports for persons possessing significant knowledge concerning German actions during the war relating to art. Arranged by subject.
| Box # | File Titles or Subjects |
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| 427-430 | Hitler-Linz Museum 1939-1945 |
| 430-431 | City of Linz, plans for improvement 1939-1940 |
| 431-432 | Berchtesgaden and Obersalzberg 1942-1947 |
| 432 | Fuhrerbau, personnel, 1945 |
| 432-433 | Ulrich Graf, incoming correspondence 1937-1942 |
| 433 | General von Epp, Reichstatthalter 1933-1945 |
| 434 | Architect Hans Reger, correspondence relating to Hitler-Linz Museum 1938-1944 |
| 435 | Investigation of Dr. Kajrtan Muehlmann 1945-1948 |
| 436-444 | Hermann Goering 1935-1945 |
| 445 | Maria Almas-Dietrich, art dealer and art adviser to Hitler, 1941-1949 |
| 446-448 | Karl Haberstock, 1937-1950 |
| 449 | Dutch art firm Jacques Goudstikker 1939-1945 Official complaints concerning art confiscations 1940-1942 |
| 450-455 | Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg [ERR] 1940-1944 |
| 456 | Regalia, Holy Roman Empire 1933-1950 |
| 456-458 | "AAhnenerbe"1940-1948 |
| 458 | Cultural life in Germany and the occupied territories 1938-1941 |
| 459-463 | Lists of cultural objects removed from France 1947-1948 |
| 464-465 | Nazi shipping documents, Germany and Western Europe 1938-1944 |
| 466-467 | Catalogue, Vienna art collection of Nathaniel Freiherr von Rothschild 1945 |
| 468-470 | Nazi art looting in France, documents 1940-1945 |
| 471-473 | Nazi art looting in Poland and the Baltic countries 1939-1948 |
| 474 | Holland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Italy 1940-1947 |
| 474-475 | Heeresmuseum, Strasbourg 1940-1944 |
| 475-476 | The City Museum of Stettin, Schack gallery in Munich, Haus der Kunst in Munich, and the German Leather Works Museum in Offenbach am Main 1934-1943 |
| 476 | Collections of the State Museums in Berlin 1945 Zeughaus Museum in Magdeburg 1943 Residenz Gallery, Munich 1945 |
| 477-478 | Catalogue of the Mannheimer Collection 1935-1936 |
| 478 | Fuehrerbau looting 1948-1949 |
| 479 | Looting of three art treasures (Statue of the Discus Thrower from the Palazzo Lancelotti, Rome; "Madonna of Gaeta" by Rafael; and, Czerninschen's "The Painter in his Workshop" by Vermeer) 1941-1942 |
| 479-484 | Investigations of individuals suspected of unauthorized possession or sale of cultural objects 1945-1949 |
| 484 | Investigations by foreign representatives 1945-1948 |
| 485 | Investigations of certain subjects (Looted Schloss paintings; Looting Linz paintings; Paintings missing from Munich Central Collecting Point; Kriinner case; Art objects confiscated by Lieutenants Hugoboom and Horn) 1945-1949 |
| 485-486 | Reports of investigation and interrogation of individuals 1945-1949 |
| 487 | Civil Censorship Intercept Action Files 1946-1947 |
| 488-489 | Lists of German monuments 1944-1946 |
Location: 390/45/26/02-390/45/27/04, boxes 427-489
