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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 ...
Apart from auctioning art that was to be purged from Germany's collection, Germany's art that was considered as especially favourable by Hitler were to be combined to create a massive art museum in Hitler's hometown of Linz, Austria for his own personal collection. The museum to-be by 1945 had thousands of pieces of furniture, paintings ...
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 ...
The exhibition presented 650 works of art, confiscated from German museums, and was staged in counterpoint to the concurrent Great German Art Exhibition. [1] The day before the exhibition started, Adolf Hitler delivered a speech declaring "merciless war" on cultural disintegration, attacking "chatterboxes, dilettantes and art swindlers". [1]
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 ...
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.
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 ...