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The museum itself was designed by Roderich Fick [27] based closely on Hitler's sketches and specifications, modeled somewhat after Paul Ludwig Troost's Haus der Deutschen Kunst ("House of German Art") in Munich – itself strongly influenced by Hitler's participation in the design process [28] – and would feature a colonnaded facade about 500 ...
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 ...
Between November 1940 and November 1942, Lohse staged 20 exhibitions of looted art for Hitler's second-in-command in the Jeu de Paume (museum), from which Göring selected at least 594 pieces for his own collection. [5] Lohse was awarded the War Merit Cross, 2nd class by Adolf Hitler because of his activities in art theft in Paris.
Hans Posse in 1938. Dr. Hans Posse (6 February 1879 – 7 December 1942) was a German art historian, museum curator, and, for over three years, from June 1939 until his death, the special representative of Adolf Hitler appointed to expand the collection of paintings and other art objects which Hitler intended for the so-called "Führermuseum" in Linz, Austria.
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 ...
The town where Adolf Hitler spent his youth ("Jugendstadt des Führers"), and where he planned to retire after the war. Hitler wanted to turn Linz into a "German Budapest " – a city which, in Hitler's mind, then surpassed German cities of the Danube in beauty.
Deutsches Historisches Museum A major new exhibition in Berlin displays bronze busts of Hitler, various items with swastikas and even toys modeled on the Fuehrer. But officials of the German ...
A couple of months back, I wrote a post about how a beginning investor could use artist's prints to start an art collection. In the piece, I quoted art dealer Jennifer Watson, who suggested ...