THE KING OF BERLIN

THE KING OF BERLIN

The King of Berlin is a long-term provenance research project whose primary purpose is to investigate the unknown biographies of the approximately 1,680 predominantly Western European paintings, sculptures and other works of art1 that were acquired under questionable circumstances by the late Lithuanian art dealer, suspected spy and wartime resident of Berlin, Mykolas Žilinskas, a collection that was subsequently smuggled into the Soviet Union and that today belongs to a major art gallery in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas.

1 Including more than 300 pieces by over 200 artists whose names appear on the German Lost Art Database.