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There are many reasons that among the hundreds of thousands of cases involving artwork looted by the Nazis the story of Gustav Klimt’s “Adele Bloch-Bauer I” would particularly appeal to filmmakers. For one, there is the mesmerizing gold-flecked painting itself, which set a record price of $135 million when it was sold in 2006.
30 lis 2018 · One of the biggest stories from the Nazi regime’s looting of Jewish-owned art began with a routine customs check on a train from Zurich to Munich in September 2010. When customs agents stopped ...
28 maj 2020 · The investigation concludes with few definite answers: Only 14 out of the 1,500 artworks found in Cornelius Gurlitt's possession have been formally identified as Nazi-looted art.
6 maj 2024 · With the rise of National Socialism in Germany, the largest art theft in world history was initiated even before the outbreak of the Second World War. Between 1933 and 1945, over 650,000 artworks were seized or forcibly sold by the Nazis across Europe.
25 lis 2021 · A black and white photo of the room, probably from 1942, shows paintings by André Derain and Claude Monet, among others, that did not turn up post-war and most likely were destroyed.
1 lis 2017 · This week, the public will finally be able to view a selection of the roughly 1,500 paintings, prints and other modern artworks uncovered in the home of Cornelius Gurlitt, the reclusive son...
9 paź 2024 · Across Europe Nazis stripped Jews of their cultural assets — this systematic theft of art was part of the Holocaust. Today, Germany is signaling to the world that it wants to come to terms with ...
