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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.
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.
25 lis 2021 · The Large Blue Horses, painted in 1911, depicts three vibrantly blue horses, clustered sensuously together in the foreground, with the hillside behind them washed in splashes of blue, red and...
1 lis 2017 · The Museum of Fine Arts Bern ’s exhibition centers on the Nazi regime’s attitude toward modern art—or as the Nazis deemed the movement, “degenerate” art—the Bundeskunsthalle’s exhibition will...
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...
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...
