The Lost Museum by Hector Feliciano

The Lost Museum by Hector Feliciano

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Zusammenfassung

During the occupation of France, the Nazis confiscated nearly 100,000 works of art including work by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas, Cezanne and Picasso, from more than 200 collectors. This book tells the true story of these collections, which belonged to five renowned Jewish families.

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The Lost Museum by Hector Feliciano

Between 1939 and 1944, as the Nazis overran Europe, they were also quietly conducting another type of pillage. The Lost Museum tells the story of the Jewish art collectors and gallery owners in France who were stripped of rare works by artists such as Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas, Cézanne, and Picasso. Before they were through, the Nazis had taken more than 20,000 paintings, sculptures, and drawings from France. The Lost Museum explores the Nazis'systematic confiscation of these artworks, focusing on the private collections of five families: Rothschild, Rosenberg, Bernheim-Jeune, David-Weill, and Schloss. The book is filled with private family photos of this art, some of which has never before been seen by the public, and it traces the fate of these works as they passed through the hands of top German officials, unscrupulous art dealers, and unwitting auction houses such as Christie's and Sotheby's.
Hector Feliciano is editor-in-chief of World Media Network. A former cultural writer for the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, he has lived in Paris for many years.
SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9780465041916
ISBN 10 0465041914
Titel The Lost Museum
Autor Hector Feliciano
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Basic Books
Erscheinungsjahr 1998-04-25
Seitenanzahl 336
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