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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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Autor principal: Feliciano, Hector (Autor)
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York, NY : BasicBooks , 1997
Edición:1. ed.
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Acceso en línea:Book review (H-Net)
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Notas de Autor:Hector Feliciano
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Sumario: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
Notas:Aus dem Franz. übers. - Orig. publ. in 1995
Descripción Física:IX, 278 S. zahlr. Ill.
ISBN:0465041949
9780465041916