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Between 1939 & 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 & gallery owners in France who were stripped of rare works by artists such as Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas, Cézanne & Picasso. Before they were through, the Nazis had taken more than 20,000 paintings, sculptures & 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 & Schloss. The book is filled with private family photos of this art, some of which has never before been seen by the public, & it traces the fate of these works as they passed thru the hands of top German officials, unscrupulous art dealers & unwitting auction houses such as Christie’s & Sotheby’s.
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El museo desaparecido, Hector Feliciano
- Language
- Released
- 2004
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- El museo desaparecido
- Subtitle
- Los nazis y la confiscación de obras de arte
- Language
- Spanish
- Authors
- Hector Feliciano
- Publisher
- Planeta
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 377
- ISBN10
- 9500425645
- ISBN13
- 9789500425643
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Historical Themes, History, Art, Military History, World War II, Art History & Criticism, History of Art, Museums
- Original title
- Le musée disparu
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- Between 1939 & 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 & gallery owners in France who were stripped of rare works by artists such as Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas, Cézanne & Picasso. Before they were through, the Nazis had taken more than 20,000 paintings, sculptures & 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 & Schloss. The book is filled with private family photos of this art, some of which has never before been seen by the public, & it traces the fate of these works as they passed thru the hands of top German officials, unscrupulous art dealers & unwitting auction houses such as Christie’s & Sotheby’s.