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BERLIN (AP) - A 100-year-old watercolor of Munich's old city hall is expected to fetch at least 50,000 euros ($60,000) at auction this weekend, not so much for its artistic value as for the ...
Jahn became the Art Consultant to the German Embassy in Vienna in 1937, where he would then search for, purchase, and collect individual pieces of Hitler's art, allegedly in order to destroy a majority of the paintings. Jahn sold one of the largest collections of Hitler's art, about 18 pieces, with an average selling price of $50,000. [13]
In 1937, Hitler opened a museum. The Great German Art Exhibition, the museum known as Degenerate Art, opened to a limited audience containing the first of his collection. [3] This was his first step in his art collection. The ERR (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg) was ordered to empty and loot museums to gather art for Hitler's growing ...
After Gurlitt's death the painting was offered for sale by both his widow (unsuccessfully) and subsequently by his son Cornelius, when at auction by Ketterer in Stuttgart in 1972 it realised DM 90,000 to Cornelius after auctioneer's fees (the same painting later re-sold at Sotheby's in London for £1.2 million). Beckmann's family did not ...
Der Bannerträger (The Standard Bearer) is a painting by the Austrian artist Hubert Lanzinger of a stylized Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party and German Führer. The painting portrays Hitler sitting on a black horse, wearing armor in the manner of a 15th-century knight and carrying a Nazi flag that billows behind him. [1]
The photo album was found in April 1945 in the bedroom of Hitler's longtime companion Eva ... Fantastic hammer price for the interesting Eva Braun Berlin Bunker Album! £34,000 #History #WW2 pic ...
Put for sale in 2001, the painting was part of Max Stern's collection of 250 artworks restitution agreement on 19 October 2006. [128] Édouard Vuillard Le Salon de Madame Aron oil painting, 1911–1912 Collection Alfred Lindon Restitution request to National Gallery of Canada [129] Restituted on 24 September 2003. [130] [131]
Between 1936 and 1944 Dietrich acquired more than one thousand pieces of art for Hitler and his planned Führermuseum, making her one of the most important dealers in Nazi Germany. [10] Much of the art she acquired had been stolen from the private collections of displaced, deported or executed Jewish citizens. [11] [12] [13]