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The lost museum : the Nazi conspiracy to steal the world's greatest works of art
pt. 1. A certain love of art. Vermeer's Astronomer, or, Hitler's blind spot -- The K(c)ơmmel 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 Ros...
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Document Type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York, NY
: BasicBooks
, 1997
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Edition: | 1. ed. |
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Online Access: | Book review (H-Net) Verlagsangaben |
Author Notes: | Hector Feliciano |
Summary: | pt. 1. A certain love of art. Vermeer's Astronomer, or, Hitler's blind spot -- The K(c)ơmmel 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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Item Description: | Aus dem Franz. übers. - Orig. publ. in 1995 |
Physical Description: | IX, 278 S. zahlr. Ill. |
ISBN: | 0465041949 9780465041916 |