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Genre/Form: | Art History Art and the war |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Feliciano, Hector. Lost museum. New York : BasicBooks, ©1997 (OCoLC)606104097 Online version: Feliciano, Hector. Lost museum. New York : BasicBooks, ©1997 (OCoLC)608203069 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hector Feliciano |
ISBN: | 0465041949 9780465041947 0465041914 9780465041916 |
OCLC Number: | 36446851 |
Description: | ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | pt. 1. A certain love of art. Vermeer's Astronomer, or, Hitler's blind spot -- The Kümmel Report, or, The Nazis' reply to Napoleon -- Hermann Goering, "friend of the arts" -- pt. 2. Anatomy of a pillage. The exemplary looting of the Rothschild Collections -- The Paul Rosenberg Gallery : modern and "degenerate" art for sale -- The Bernheim-Jeune Collection, or, The burning of The Jas de Bouffan -- David David-Weill, or, The patron stripped bare -- The Schloss Collection, or, Dutch painters for Hitler -- pt. 3. Art for sale. Visitors to the Jeu de Paume -- Business as usual : the Paris art market during the war -- Switzerland : the importance of being neutral -- pt. 4. Revenants. The found and the lost -- A short Swiss epilogue : purchased skeletons in the Kunstkammern -- Something new on the eastern front -- The purgatory of the MNRs -- Appendix A. The Schenker papers -- Appendix B. An interview with Alain Vernay. |
Other Titles: | Musée disparu. |
Responsibility: | Hector Feliciano. |
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Abstract:
During the occupation of France, the Nazis confiscated nearly 100,000 works of art including work by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas, Cezanne and Picasso, from more than 200 collectors. This book tells the true story of these collections, which belonged to five renowned Jewish families.
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