The lost museum : the Nazi conspiracy to steal the world's greatest works of art
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- ISBN: 0465041949
- ISBN: 9780465041947
- ISBN: 0465041914 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780465041916 (pbk.)
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ix, 278 p. : ill ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : BasicBooks, c1997.
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-265) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Art thefts France History 20th century World War 1939-1945 Art and the war Pillage France Kunstroof Tweede Wereldoorlog Kunstraub Germany Cultural policy Deutschland Frankreich |
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