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plundered art: Angelus Novus, Angel of History, by Paul Klee

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A perspective from the Holocaust Art Restitution Project. Angelus Novus, Angel of History, by Paul Klee. Interesting destiny for the watercolor, “Angelus Novus”, a critical early work by Swiss artist Paul Klee. Angelus Novus, Paul Klee, 1920. He knew well—later he became known as Stephen Lackner, a well-known patron of the arts in the United States. Did Benjamin have a written will? One fact is puzzling, though: when reading the information about “Angelus Novus” on the Israel Museum website. Sources: Ker...

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plundered art: O Canada! Where did you go wrong?

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A perspective from the Holocaust Art Restitution Project. Where did you go wrong? What is the problem up there? Way back when, at the turn of the twenty-first century, an international conference was held in Ottawa hosted by the National Gallery of Canada,. Where members of the art trade, civil servants, researchers, claimants, survivors, art historians, lawyers, and hangers-on from various nations met to discuss looted art and restitution as a global problem but more particularly as a Canadian problem.

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plundered art: Nazi plunderer Bruno Lohse gets a posthumous rewrite

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A perspective from the Holocaust Art Restitution Project. Nazi plunderer Bruno Lohse gets a posthumous rewrite. Source: Jewish Museum Berlin. In German-occupied Paris. His boss was SS Colonel von Behr. Both men share in the responsibility of orchestrating between September 1940 and July 1944 the plunder of Jews in German-occupied France, the deaths of innumerable individuals, and the sacking of tens of thousands of residences under the eponymous appellation of Möbel-Aktion (M-Aktion). Suffice it to say t...

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plundered art: My Favorite Rant: on Education, Restitution and the Culture of Museums

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A perspective from the Holocaust Art Restitution Project. My Favorite Rant: on Education, Restitution and the Culture of Museums. By Ori Z Soltes. One of the questions that, as a former Museum Director and Curator I remember having frequently asked my staff, my advisory board and myself is: what is the purpose of our museum? Blog are aware, have been mixed at best. Most recently, of course, the case of Leone Meyer’s claim. Against the Fred Jones, Jr. Museum at the University of Oklahoma. Stroll through s...

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plundered art: Profiles

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A perspective from the Holocaust Art Restitution Project. Van der Vlies, Inge. Andriesse, Hugo Daniel. Benedictis, Orazio de. Bernheim, Mme. Renée Léonce. Blum, Mme. Lucien. Braun, Mme. Robert. Braunschweig, Brunswig, Brunschwig, Betty. Dreyfus, Mme. Joseph. Fribourg, Madame Jules. Hamburger, Hermann Juan Isaac. Heilbronn, Mme. Max. Hirsch, Veuve Louis. Levy de Benzion, M. Levy de Benzion, Mme. Levy de Leon, M. Levy Hermanos, M. Levy Hermanos, Mme. Levy, Mme. Roger. Levy, Pierre Michel. Loewell I, M.

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plundered art: Franz Marc’s “The Large Blue Horses”

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A perspective from the Holocaust Art Restitution Project. Franz Marc’s “The Large Blue Horses”. Die grossen blauen Pferden, Franz Mac. Source: Walker Art Center. Franz Marc’s “The Large Blue Horses” [Die grossen blauen Pferden], which he painted in 1911, have adorned the walls of the Walker Art Center. In Minneapolis, MN, since late 1941 when Mrs. Gilbert Walker acquired the painting from the Karl Nierendorf Gallery in New York. According to the Walker Art Center’s fairly careful research. There has neve...

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plundered art: Geography

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A perspective from the Holocaust Art Restitution Project. Note: Geography projects are in continuing development. Data contributions, comments and recommended edits are welcomed. 1 Avenue Théodore Rousseau, Paris, France. 1 Place de l'Alma, Paris, France. 1 Square Maurice Barrès, Paris, France. 1 Place Victor Hugo, Paris, France. 1 Rue de la Muette, Paris, France. 1 Rue de Noisiel, Paris, France. 10 Rue Oswaldo Cruz, Paris, France. 100 Rue de la Faisanderie, Paris, France. 113 Quai Branly, Paris, France.

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plundered art: Van Gogh's 1889 depiction of his mutilated self smoking a pipe--PR 144

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A perspective from the Holocaust Art Restitution Project. Van Gogh's 1889 depiction of his mutilated self smoking a pipe- PR 144. The Block catalogue merely refers to it as « Self-Portrait, which ironically is also the title given to it by the art historical staff of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) in 1944. Autoportrait à l'orielle bandée, Vincent Van Gogh. Source: ERR Project via Bundesarchiv. Subsequent to Miedl’s arrest in the late summer of 1944 as he tried to cross the Franco-Span...

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plundered art: Bibliography

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A perspective from the Holocaust Art Restitution Project. Borin, Jacqueline. 1993. "Embers of the Soul: The Destruction of Jewish Books and Libraries in Poland During World War II". 28, no. 4: 445-460. Grimsted, Patricia Kennedy. 2006. "The Postwar Fate of Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg Archival and Library Plunder, and the Dispersal of ERR Records". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 20, no. 2: 278-308. International Institute of Social History (IISH) Research Paper,. Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

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plundered art: J’accuse

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A perspective from the Holocaust Art Restitution Project. By Ori Z. Soltes. On September 28, 1791, two years after the onset of mass revolutionary violence that we know now as the French Revolution, the Convention,. To the same extent that French Catholics were (together with any stray Protestants who had wondered back after the Revolution, having been expelled more than a century earlier under King Louis XIV). Napoleon and the Jews. In the past year HARP has twice partnered with the Hopi Nation. 1/ they...