Salzburg – Vienna – Berlin: The Trail of a Search

The Day of Provenance Research, initiated by the “Arbeitskreis für Provenienzforschung“ (Working group for provenance research), takes place once every year in April. On this day the museums present their current research strategies and principal lines of inquiry. In the DHM blog our provenance researchers shed light on their usually meticulous detective work in searching for the origin and original owners of the objects. In this article Dr Heike Krokowski describes her research on the portrait painting “Hofzwerg”, or “Court Dwarf”, that once belonged to Max Reinhardt as well as her trip from Berlin to Salzburg and Vienna and finally back to Berlin that was necessary in order to trace the trail of the painting to our museum.