Thinking Provenance, Thinking Restitution

Lucy Wasensteiner, Junior Professor of Art Historical Provenance Research in the Art History Department at the University of Bonn, working within the Research Centre for Provenance Research, Art and Cultural Property Law. She is a qualified UK solicitor and holds a Doctorate in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art. From 2018 to 2020 she was Lecturer at the University of Bonn. From 2020 to 2024 she was Director of the Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee in Berlin, a museum dedicated to the German-Jewish painter Max Liebermann, where she led a 30-month research project into provenance of the museum’s collection.Mary-Ann Middelkoop, Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge. From 2021 to 2024, she was a postdoctoral researcher on the AHRC/DFG-funded project ‘The Restitution of Knowledge: Artefacts as Archives in the (Post)colonial Museum, 1850–1939’ at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, and a Junior Research Fellow in History ofArt at St Peter’s College, Oxford. She holds a PhD in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge, and previously worked as a researcher at the Com-mission for Looted Art in Europe, London.