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19 mar 2014 · It was the greatest art theft in history: 650,000 works looted from Europe by the Nazis, many of which were never recovered.
By Tori Campbell. Nazi-Looted Art. Of all dishonourable art thefts in history, the one perpetrated by the Third Reich has been the most monumental, involving the looting of over 20% of Europe’s art by the end of World War II.
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.
28 lut 2022 · The Gurlitt case tells us a lot about how the German government failed for decades to come to terms with Nazi-looted art.
19 mar 2014 · But last November the world learned that German authorities had found a trove of 1,280 paintings, drawings, and prints worth more than a billion dollars in the Munich apartment of a haunted...
25 lis 2021 · The divergent roads to such an afterlife are evident from the moment you enter the exhibition. You're greeted, first, by the gorgeous canvas by the German Expressionist artist, Franz Marc.
30 lis 2018 · The Gurlitt Case abruptly confronted the present and the past: it gave a dramatic impetus to the efforts of the German cultural establishment to engage with the phenomenon of Nazi-looted art and...
