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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]
Any art that was modern or abstract was considered degenerate. [7] In addition to showcasing this art and labeling it as degenerate art, the Nazi party also provided explanations to the art viewers as to why the art was a lesser form of art. [7] In the 1937 speech, Adolf Hitler mentioned many types of art that the Reich was opposed to.
BBC inspects art stash; Video: "Hitler's Art Dealer" – short documentary, c. 2017 by Mounia El Aboudi / University of the Arts London; Video: "Bestandsaufnahme Gurlitt – Behind the Art" – 2017 video, 25 mins, based around the 2017 Bonn and Bern exhibitions; BBC Arts: Nazi art dealer's secret hoard revealed after half a century Article, 9 ...
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 ...
Hildebrand Gurlitt (15 September 1895 – 9 November 1956) was a German art historian and art gallery director who dealt in Nazi-looted art as one of Hitler's and Goering's four authorized dealers for "degenerate art".
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]
Buy Art That Belonged to Evil Men: After Saddam Hussein fell from power in Iraq, liberating forces discovered that, in addition to being a homicidal maniac, the former President for life also had ...
Rolf Nikolaus Cornelius Gurlitt (28 December 1932 – 6 May 2014) was a German art collection owner. The son of Hildebrand Gurlitt, an art gallery director and Nazi-era dealer of looted art who worked for Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring, [1] Gurlitt inherited from his father a collection of over 1,400 artworks known as the Gurlitt trove or Gurlitt Collection, a small number (less than 20) of ...