The lost museum : the Nazi conspiracy to steal the world's greatest works of art
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The lost museum : the Nazi conspiracy to steal the world's greatest works of art
BasicBooks, c1997
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Musée disparu
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and index
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Between 1939 and 1944, as the Nazis overran Europe, they were also quietly conducting another type of pillage. The Lost Museum tells the story of the Jewish art collectors and gallery owners in France who were stripped of rare works by artists such as Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas, Cezanne, and Picasso. Before they were through, the Nazis had taken more than 20,000 paintings, sculptures, and drawings from France. The Lost Museum explores the Nazis'systematic confiscation of these artworks, focusing on the private collections of five families: Rothschild, Rosenberg, Bernheim-Jeune, David-Weill, and Schloss. The book is filled with private family photos of this art, some of which has never before been seen by the public, and it traces the fate of these works as they passed through the hands of top German officials, unscrupulous art dealers, and unwitting auction houses such as Christie's and Sotheby's.
Table of Contents
A Certain Love of Art * Vermeers Astronomer or, Hitlers Blind Spot * The K mmel Report or, the Nazis Reply to Napoleon * Hermann Goering, Friend to the Arts Anatomy of a Pillage * The Exemplary Looting of the Rothschild Collections * The Paul Rosenberg Gallery: Modern and Degenerate Art for Sale * Bernheim-Jeune or, The Burning of The Moss Roses * David David-Weill or, The Patron Stripped Bare * The Schloss Collection or, Dutch Painters for Hitler Art for Sale * Visitors to the Jeu de Paume * Business as Usual: The Paris Art Market During the War * Switzerland: On the Importance of Being Neutral The Revanents * The Found and the Lost * A Short Swiss Epilogue: Skeletons in the Kunstkammern * Something New on the Eastern Front * The Purgatory of the MNRs
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