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The film is based on the 2007 non-fiction book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter. It follows an Allied group from the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program that is given the task of finding and saving pieces of art and other culturally important items ...
What began as a brain trust of the art world's finest during the war became a group of 345 men and women from 13 countries that comprised the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section unit. They spent 1945 seeking out more than 1,000 troves containing an estimated 5 million pieces of artwork and cultural items stolen from wealthy Jews, museums ...
This is a list of personnel who participated in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program under the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of the Allied armies between 1943 and 1946. "Expertise" attempts to indicate each person's background and suitability for MFAA at the time of their recruitment ; many achieved even greater ...
After World War II, the U.S. Army’s art experts set out to find and return millions of works stolen by the Nazis. Known as the Monuments Men, they included Mary Regan Quessenberry, who from her ...
Robert Morse Edsel [1] (born December 28, 1956) is an American businessman and author. He has written three non-fiction books - Rescuing Da Vinci (2006), Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (2007); and Saving Italy (2013) - chronicling the recovery of artwork stolen by Nazi Germany during World War II.
As Monuments Men opens this week with an all-star cast led by George Clooney and Matt Damon, so does an exhibit dedicated to the Monuments Men at Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
The Allied officers in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives section, commonly known as the Monuments Men, recovered many artworks from the Göring collection and investigated their looting. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The series of reports written in 1945-6 by the OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit to document Nazi art looting networks included much ...
Hellmut Otto Emil Lehmann-Haupt (1903 – March 11, 1992) was a German-American author, academic, bibliography expert, and rare books expert. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] After World War II , he worked with the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program , commonly known as the Monuments Men .