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Claim to the Parke-Bernet auction house, New York The painting was confiscated in France during World War II; In 1969 it was auctioned in New York; its whereabouts are unknown. No returns, the auction house (now Sotheby's) did not disclose the name of the buyer. [239] Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Paysage pres de Cagnes. Oil on canvas, Richard Semmel
Art theft and looting occurred on a massive scale during World War II. It originated with the policies of the Axis countries, primarily Nazi Germany and Japan, which systematically looted occupied territories. Near the end of the war the Soviet Union, in turn, began looting reclaimed and occupied territories. "The grand scale of looted artwork ...
German loot stored at Schlosskirche Ellingen, Bavaria (April 1945) Pieter Bruegel the Elder painting Altaussee, Austria (April 1945) Altaussee, May 1945 after the removal of the eight 500-kilogram (1,100 lb) bombs at the Nazi stolen art repository The Ghent Altarpiece during recovery from the Altaussee salt mine at the end of World War II The ...
Altaussee, May 1945 after the removal of the eight 500 kg bombs at the Nazi stolen art repository. Between 1943 and 1945, the extensive complex of salt mines in Altaussee served as a huge repository for art stolen by the Nazis. It also contained holdings from Austrian collections.
A Claude Monet pastel painting stolen by Nazis from a Jewish family during World War II, which vanished for decades only to show up with a Louisiana art dealer, was returned Wednesday in New ...
The chalk-painting "Bord de Mer," by Claude Monet, created in 1865. The painting was stolen from Adalbert Parlagi by the Nazis in 1940, and returned to his descendants by the New Orleans FBI ...
Even before the U.S. entered World War II, art professionals and organizations such as the American Defense Harvard Group and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) were working to identify and protect European art and monuments in harm’s way or in danger of Nazi plundering. The groups sought a national organization affiliated with ...
In 1940, the Nazis seized a Claude Monet pastel and seven other works of art from Adalbert "Bela" and Hilda Parlagi, a Jewish couple forced to flee their Vienna home after Austria was annexed into ...