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Göring’s man in Paris : the story of a Nazi art plunderer and his world
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Dramatis Personae -- Prologue: Kaffee und Kuchen with Bruno -- Introduction -- 1. Art Historian, Art Dealer, Member of the SS (1911–41) -- 2. The “King of Paris” (1941–43) -- 3. Darker Hues and War’s End (1943–45) -- 4. Called to Account (1945–50) -- 5. The Amnesia Years -...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven ; London
: Yale University Press
, [2021]
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Göring's man in Paris |
| Author Notes: | Jonathan Petropoulos |
| Summary: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Dramatis Personae -- Prologue: Kaffee und Kuchen with Bruno -- Introduction -- 1. Art Historian, Art Dealer, Member of the SS (1911–41) -- 2. The “King of Paris” (1941–43) -- 3. Darker Hues and War’s End (1943–45) -- 4. Called to Account (1945–50) -- 5. The Amnesia Years -- 6. Lohse in North America -- 7. War Stories, War Secrets -- 8. Restitution -- 9. Bruno Lohse and the Wildensteins -- Epilogue: On the Trail of the Nazi Plunderers -- Appendix: Artworks in the Possession of Dr. Bruno Lohse and the Schönart Anstalt -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Prologue -- Index A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world Bruno Lohse (1911–2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler’s special art looting agency, he went on to supervise the systematic theft and distribution of over 22,000 artworks, largely from French Jews; helped Göring develop an enormous private art collection; and staged twenty private exhibitions of stolen art in Paris’s Jeu de Paume museum during the war. By the 1950s Lohse was officially denazified but back in the art dealing world, offering looted masterpieces to American museums. After his death, dozens of paintings by Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro, among others, were found in his Zurich bank vault and adorning the walls of his Munich home. Jonathan Petropoulos spent nearly a decade interviewing Lohse and continues to serve as an expert witness for Holocaust restitution cases. Here he tells the story of Lohse’s life, offering a critical examination of the postwar art world |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (416 Seiten) Illustrationen |
| Document Type: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780300256215 |
| Access: | Restricted Access |
