The Vanished Museum: The History of the Theft of World Art Masterpieces
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The Vanished Museum: The History of the Theft of World Art Masterpieces
49.99 €
What is the fate of the many thousands of works of world art stolen by the Nazis during World War II? In France alone, more than 100,000 paintings, half a million pieces of furniture and more than a million books were seized! Most of them belonged to Jewish families and individual collectors. The author of the book quotes figures of 20-40 thousand - an impressive number of things that seem to have vanished into oblivion. Carefully studying all the facts and tracing the lost traces, Feliciano step by step investigates the stories of missing paintings from the collection of Parisian merchant Paul Rosenberg, bankers Rothschild and David Weil, brothers-marchand Bernheim-Jeune, collector Alphonse Kann and others. Thanks to his efforts, some heirs managed to recover family heirlooms, while others, on the contrary, accused him of defamation for revealing the collaborationism of certain gallerists and sued him, but without success. Feliciano raises the ever-present problem of restitution, discussing how, after the war, many works could be lost on the world art market, sometimes by accident and sometimes because of the deliberate connivance of art market players. The author pays special attention to the role of Switzerland in the looting of France, as many stolen works of art were discovered there after the war.
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