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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feliciano, Hector (Author)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : BasicBooks , 1997
Edition:1. ed.
Subjects:
Deutschland
Kunstraub
Frankreich
Geschichte 1940-1944
Germany > Cultural policy
Online Access:Book review (H-Net)
Verlagsangaben
Author Notes:Hector Feliciano
Table of 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.

Similar Items