| Willi Korte, independent researcher, investigator, lawyer and writer, P.O. Box 8595, Silver Spring MD 20907. Dr. Korte specializes in the identification and restitution of works of art that were lost during World War II and the immediate post war period. He is particularly knowledgeable about government and private archives with documents bearing on wartime and postwar events. Dr. Korte studied history, law and political science at the Free University, Berlin, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, and Georgetown University, Washington D.C. He has a law degree and a Ph.D in history. Dr. Korte has assisted many governments, individuals and institutions in Europe and North America in their efforts to recover and return missing art and cultural property. He is coauthor of Quedlinburg-Texas und zurück: Schwarzhandel mit geraubter Kunst (1994), and the founder of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project, know as HARP, an organization whose purpose is to assist in the recovery of the Holocaust-related art losses by collecting historical documents and information bearing on such losses. |
