The Private Made Public - A Connective &Comparative History of the Liebermann-Villa &the Zorn House

虽然在1998年华盛顿会议之后，与二战有关的起源研究取得了进展，但大多数研究的重点是公共机构。然而，公共机构并不是受二战暴行影响的唯一行为者，也不是塑造文化遗产景观的唯一行为者。因此，现在是将我们的努力转向私人行为者和犹太乡村之家的时候了。“私人即公共”项目的中心思想是，为了更好地了解文化行为者如何开展来源研究、他们为什么发起这些项目以及结果如何，进行比较研究是非常重要的。私人行为者的来源研究项目是如何实施的？私人行为者的来源研究项目产生了哪些影响？“私人即公共”项目将采用国家和跨国层面的调查，因为犹太乡村住宅遍布世界各地，并由其特定背景形成。重点将放在三个国家：英国、德国和瑞典。选择这些国家主要有两个原因：（1）在二战中的历史地位（一个轴心国，一个盟国，一个“中立”国）及其与二战后事件的独特联系，这可以通过私人行为者煽动的起源研究项目的透镜以及这些项目对私人行为者历史的影响来研究，大屠杀的公共记忆，以及二战的遗产; 2）这三个国家在起源研究的实施程度上也占据了不同的观点。如前所述，大多数与起源研究有关的学术贡献都集中在公共机构。因此，一项主要侧重于私人行为者的研究处于学术追求的前沿。对这三个选定的国家进行比较研究是基于初步研究，独特的-很可能是第一次。这项研究有可能加深对具体私人行为者的了解，并在国家和跨国一级加深了解。众所周知，二战期间掠夺的物品散布在世界各地。因此，比较私人行为者在跨国范围内开展的不同层次的来源研究项目的知识非常重要，因为它有可能促进对国际来源研究的新见解。该项目将是跨学科的，并采用学科，方法和来源的组合。理论框架将主要从历史学、艺术史和文化科学的学术领域获得，例如，遗产研究，犹太人和二战研究，和关键出处研究。该方法将结合联合收割机定性技术，主要是半结构化访谈，案例研究和比较分析。这项研究将在国家和跨国两级进行调查。这项研究将采用各种各样的来源，如采访，档案，博物馆记录，纳粹掠夺艺术的开创性作品，二战遗产等。该项目的跨学科性质部分是基于这样一个事实，即起源研究的本质是跨学科的，因此需要一个灵活和多方面的框架。“私人是公共的”是由绿色教授领导的AHRC资助的“犹太乡村住宅”项目的一部分，部分研究将在Liebermann-Villa进行，在Wasensteiner博士（第三帝国时代起源研究和英德文化关系领域的专家）的监督下进行。初步的论文结构可应要求提供。

While progress has been made concerning provenance research in connection to WWII following the 1998 Washington Conference, the majority of the research focus has been on public institutions. Public institutions are not, however, the only actor affected by the atrocities of WWII, nor the only actor that has shaped the cultural heritage landscape. It is therefore high time to turn our efforts towards private actors and Jewish Country Houses. The "The Private is Public" project centres around the belief that it is vastly important to conduct comparative research that focuses on how cultural actors conduct provenance research, why they initiate these projects and what the outcomes are, in order to gain a greater understanding.Possible research questions are: What incentives motivate private actors to instigate provenance research projects? How are provenance research projects by private actors implemented? What impacts have provenance research projects by private actors yielded? The "The Private is Public" project will apply a national and transnational level of inquiry, as Jewish Country Houses are found all over the world and are shaped by their specific contexts. The focus will be on three nations: the UK, Germany, and Sweden. These nations have been chosen primarily for two reasons: 1) Their individual historical position in WWII (one Axis power, one Allied power, and one 'Neutral' nation) and their unique connections to the events that followed WWII, which can be studied through the lens of provenance research projects instigated by private actors and the effects these projects have had on the history of private actors, the public memory of the Holocaust, and the legacies of WWII; 2) The three nations also occupy different points on how far the implementation of provenance research has come.As previously mentioned, the majority of scholarly contributions with connections to provenance research have focused on public institutions. A study focusing primarily on private actors is, therefore, at the forefront of scholarly pursuits. Conducting a comparative study focusing on the three chosen nations is based on preliminary research, unique - quite possibly the first of its kind. The study holds the possibility of gaining a deeper knowledge about specific private actors, as well as yielding a greater understanding on a national and transnational level. It is well-known that objects looted during WWII were dispersed all over the world. It is therefore of great importance to compare knowledge about the different layers of provenance research projects, conducted by private actors on a transnational scale, as it holds the possibility of facilitating new insights for international provenance research. The project will be interdisciplinary and employ a combination of disciplines, methodologies, and sources. The theoretical framework will mainly be acquired from the academic fields of History, Art History, and Cultural Science, e.g., Heritage Studies, Jewish & WWII Studies, and Critical Provenance Research. The method will combine qualitative techniques, mainly semi-structured interviews, case studies, and comparative analysis. The study will have national and transnational levels of inquiry. The study will employ a wide variety of sources, such as interviews, archives, museum records, seminal works on Nazi-looted art, WWII legacies, and more. The interdisciplinary nature of this project is partly based on the fact that provenance research by its very nature is interdisciplinary, and therefore demands a flexible and multifaceted framework. "The Private is Public" is part of the AHRC-funded 'Jewish Country Houses' project led by Professor Green, and part of the research will take place at the Liebermann-Villa, under the supervision of Dr Wasensteiner (expert in the field of Third-Reich era provenance research and Anglo-German cultural relations). A preliminary thesis structure is available on request.