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Lost Lives, Lost Art
The legendary names include Rothschild, Mendelssohn, Bloch-Bauer--distinguished bankers, industrialists, diplomats, and art collectors. Their diverse taste ranged from manuscripts and musical instruments to paintings by Old Masters and the avant-garde. But their stigma as Jews in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe doomed them to exile or death in Hitler's concentration camps. Here, after years of meticulous research, Melissa Müller (Anne Frank: The Biography) and Monika Tatzkow (Nazi Looted Art) present the tragic, compelling stories of 15 Jewish collectors, the dispersal of their extraordinary collections through forced sale and/or confiscation, and the ongoing efforts of their heirs to re...
Lost Lives, Lost Art
From 1937 on Jewish collectors were under extraordinary pressure from German official and unofficial sources to surrender their priceless collections. Collectors reluctantly agreed to one-sided sales of masterpieces at ludicrously low prices in exchange for a precious exit permit for themselves or a member of their family. This book traces the dispersal of these collections and follow the fate of the collectors. Inevitably, their collections were confiscated by German officials (Jacques Goudstikker), sold by Nazi party member art dealers (Cassirer) or seized for state collections (Bloch-Bauer). Following the war Allied officials made little effort to retrieve these paintings, concentrating t...
Dispossession
This collection of essays by a range of international, multidisciplinary scholars explores the financial history, social significance, and cultural meanings of the theft, starting in 1933, of assets owned by German Jews. Despite the fraught topic and the ongoing legal discussions, the subject has not received much scholarly attention until now. This volume offers a much needed contribution to our understanding of the history of the period and the acts. The essays examine the confiscatory taxation of Jewish property, the looting of art and confiscation of gold, the role of German freight forwarders in property theft, salesmen and dispossession in the retail world, theft from the elderly, and the complicity of the banking industry, as well as the reach of the practice beyond German borders.
Vanishing Vienna
In Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna’s cultural history across this period and a framework for interpreting Viennese culture that relies on antisemitism, philosemitism, and a related discourse of Jewish presence and absence. This observation demands a new chronology of cultural reconstruction that links the Nazi and postwar years, and a new geography that includes the history of refugees from Nazi Vienna. Rather than presenting the Nazi, exile, and postwar periods as discrete chapters of Vienna’s history, Tanzer argues that they are part of ...
Verlorene Bilder, verlorene Leben
From 1937 on Jewish collectors were under extraordinary pressure from German official and unofficial sources to surrender their priceless collections. Collectors reluctantly agreed to one-sided sales of masterpieces at ludicrously low prices in exchange for a precious exit permit for themselves or a member of their family. This book traces the dispersal of these collections and follow the fate of the collectors. Inevitably, their collections were confiscated by German officials (Jacques Goudstikker), sold by Nazi party member art dealers (Cassirer) or seized for state collections (Bloch-Bauer). Following the war Allied officials made little effort to retrieve these paintings, concentrating t...
Die Bilder sind unter uns
Das Standardwerk über das Geschäft mit NS-Raubkunst. Gurlitt und die Folgen: Deutschland steckt bis heute voller Raubkunst, der Handel damit floriert. Stefan Koldehoff liefert eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme. Der Fall Gurlitt hat es jüngst wieder gezeigt: Der Umgang mit Nazi-Raubkunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist bis heute ein Skandal. Albert Speer und andere NS-Größen verkauften nach 1945 ganz ungeniert über den deutschen Kunsthandel fragwürdige Gemälde; deutsche Museen horten noch immer Tausende einstmals enteigneter oder zu Spottpreisen abgepresster Bilder; Raubkunstbestände, die nach dem Krieg im Besitz der Bundesrepublik blieben, wurden nie an ihre rechtmäßigen Besi...
Rose Valland, l'espionne à l'oeuvre
Le récit inédit de la femme qui sauva soixante mille oeuvres d'art pillées par les nazis. Cette femme a sauvé plus de soixante mille oeuvres au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Mais personne ne connaît son nom : Rose Valland. Lorsque Goering débarque à Paris pour se servir parmi les collections spoliées aux Juifs, elle est là, qui espionne, fondue dans le décor, insoupçonnable. Elle voit et note tout. Les titres, les artistes, les propriétaires, les origines et les destinations. Au risque d'être fusillée ou déportée. Elle poursuit sa mission de justice jusqu'à sa mort, mais son obsession du secret touche jusqu'à sa vie privée, jugée inavouable. Pour résister, il faut savoir disparaître. Le roman de sa vie lui redonne sa place dans l'Histoire. " Une biographie ardente, qui a l'allure d'un roman d'aventures " Jérôme Garcin, L'Obs
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
A founding member of the early twentieth century German avant garde artists' group "Die Brücke," Ernst Ludwig Kirchner moved to Berlin in 1912 and became enthralled by what he called "the symphony of the great city." He responded to the intensity of Berlin's street life by recording the urban spectacle around him--most notably in "Berlin Street Scene" (1913-14), which is widely considered one of the greatest German paintings of the twentieth century. This beautifully illustrated, scholarly volume--written and edited by the noted independent curator and art historian Pamela Kort--provides a full exploration of the history and significance of Kirchner's masterpiece. Featuring full reproductions and details of "Berlin Street Scene" and other related artworks, as well as plentiful documentary photographs and supporting materials, this volume illuminates the ominous force of nervous energy and sexual tension that Kirchner sensed lurking beneath the veneer of civilized life.
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