Criticism of new culture Protection Act: Georg Baselitz draws on loan from … – Tagesspiegel

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The proposed law on the protection of cultural goods is already creating resentment in the German art scene. Painter Georg Baselitz announced to withdraw its permanent loan from German museums.

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In view of the planned Cultural Protection Act the federal government has withdrawn all permanent loan from German museums Georg Baselitz. This was confirmed by the painter on Sunday the “world”. In order for the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the Albertinum Dresden and the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz lose important groups of works from the private collection of the painter and sculptor.

So Dresden will need to return with another group of portraits from the late 1960s where it is the first upside-down images of the artist. Munich is among others lose several “hero” images. Georg Baselitz shared his decision last Friday affected museum directors with

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Hartwig Fischer, Director General of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden expressed the shock. “We are dismayed by the withdrawal of numerous works that we were able to show on loan from Georg Baselitz in Albertinum yet. This is a very great loss, especially for the presence of contemporary art in Dresden and for the presence of this artist in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, which he supports with particular benevolence in recent years. “

Culture Protection Act to 2016 into force

With the Cultural Property Protection Act, the Federal Government intends to regulate the cross-border trade in art and cultural goods more stringent. Background is, inter alia, trade in looted art treasures from the Middle East. However, the proposed scheme meets with heavy criticism. Private collectors like the Berlin lawyer Peter Raue see in the bill “the worst blow to the art market in the history of the Federal Republic”.

The law is, depending on the course of the parliamentary procedure, in the first half of 2016 into force. (CBA)

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