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Dr. Katja Terlau

Dr. Katja Terlau is a German art historian. She worked as a freelance provenance researcher and art consultant since 1999, when finishing a research fellowship about the history of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1933-1945 and provenance research for the City of Cologne. She drafted and organised the international conference "Museen im Zwielicht: Ankaufspolitik 1933–1945" at Cologne in 2001. 

In 2000 she was the founder of the international working group “Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung” in Germany.” Katja Terlau is spezialized in provenance research (provenance of artworks, looted art, lost art) for 25 years.