International cooperation: The Getty Research Institute (USA) to create digital archive of German auction catalogues from 1930 to 1945

The Getty Research Institute (GRI) (California, USA) is receiving grant money from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a joint project that involves the digital archiving of German auction catalogues from 1930 to 1945.

The archives are intended to help establish the origins of artistic and cultural assets that were taken from their legal owners during the Nazi regime and also provide access to auction catalogues of that epoch to the general public.

“German Sales 1930-1945” – is a joint project between the GRI, the Heidelberg University Library and the Art Library, National Museums in Berlin. The project is receiving a $1,67 million grant that comes from the NEH(USA) and the German Research Foundation. The grant is intended to “support collaborations between U.S. and German scholars to develop digitization projects that will benefit research in the humanities.