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Fine art theft and looting occurred on a massive calibration during World War Two. It originated with the policies of the Axis countries, primarily Nazi Frg and Japan, which systematically looted occupied territories. Near the end of the war the Soviet Matrimony, in turn, began looting reclaimed and occupied territories. "The grand scale of looted artwork by the Nazis has resulted in the loss of many pieces beingness scattered across the world." (Minyard, 2007)

Although the looting of "cultural heritage" of the German people and private collectors was non permitted in the 1945 agreement of Yalta, post-obit the defeat of Germany by the Allied forces the following appurtenances disappeared: three truckloads of precious fine art, which was listed in a confiscated list by the United states of america forces (in the mine Merker in Thuringia), and one trainload of 20 wagons loaded with artwork and jewels from Hungary (named the "gold train").[ citation needed ] According to a 2001 Der Spiegel commodity,[ commendation needed ] the artwork is suspected to exist in the US and has never been officially declared. The lost artworks from the "Grube Merker," nearly 450 pictures, are non found in whatsoever museum and thought to take been sold privately.[ commendation needed ]

An attempt by the Us to confiscate more German art by requesting 202 precious pictures to be taken was prevented by Walter Farmer on 6 November 1945, an art protection officer in Wiesbaden leading the central fine art drove store.[ citation needed ] Although confronting his directly orders from the US, he assembled 24 colleagues from Deutschland and Austria and successfully prevented the removal of the pictures (named equally functioning "Westward Ho").[one] Before his expiry in 1997, Farmer was awarded Germany's highest noncombatant laurels, the Commander's Cantankerous of the Guild of Merit, for his work in returning the 202 paintings.[2]

In the book Art as Politics in the Tertiary Reich by Jonathan Petropoulus he outlines how there is a need for further cooperation by smaller art galleries to recover art that they may exist holding and not know who it belongs to. He says that there are withal many tens of thousands of pieces of art missing today, but there is still more research to be washed to get a more authentic number.[3]

A large plan was drafted by the Nazis for much of the stolen fine art to be featured in a so-called Führermuseum,[four] which would display much of the art plundered by the Nazis. This museum would feature works that were not considered to exist "degenerate art" and would instead solely focus on the aesthetics that Hitler considered to be "skilful", and was to be created in the city of Linz. However, this museum was never created, and much of the fine art that may have been on display at that place is yet missing today. The Nazis were then vehemently against the loss of the art that they had plundered for this museum that there was a programme to destroy a stockpile of art saved for the Führermuseum at the Altaussee table salt mines, which held over 12000 pieces of stolen fine art, using eight 500-kilogram bombs.[5]

Countless pieces of fine art were stolen during the Holocaust and many were destroyed. The Nazis were relentless in their efforts to go rid of the Jewish people and their civilisation. Paintings that had been passed down from generation to generation were taken and destroyed. This was extremely emotionally hard for many Jewish families because information technology was non only an attack on their families and civilization, just also on their history. At that place have barely been any efforts of restitution. Many of the families who lost art are merely now left with claims.[six] 1 of the primary problems encountered by individuals pursuing claims is that information technology is hard to locate the necessary documentation on provenance. Organizations with information on a piece's history, museums in particular, frequently accept a disincentive to share information that could assist in an heir's claim.[7]

For organized looting, see:

  • Art theft and looting by Nazi Germany
  • Art theft and looting by Japan
  • Art theft and looting by the Soviet Union

On a smaller scale, art was stolen by individuals from various countries, taking opportunity of the chaotic war atmospheric condition. For instance, encounter:

  • Theft of medieval fine art from Quedlinburg

Gallery [edit]

  • Vincent van Gogh, 1888, The Painter on His Fashion to Work. Listed equally "missing" on Monuments Men Foundation 'Virtually Wanted' website. Belongings of Kulturhistorisches Museum in Magdeburg, Federal republic of germany (formerly the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum).[eight]

  • Jean Metzinger, 1913, En Canot (Im Kick), oil on canvass, 146 x 114 cm (57.5 in × 44.9 in), exhibited at Moderni Umeni, Due south.5.U. Mánes, Prague, 1914, acquired in 1916 by Georg Muche at the Galerie Der Sturm, confiscated by the Nazis circa 1936, displayed at the Degenerate Fine art show in Munich, and missing ever since.[10]

  • Albert Gleizes, 1911, Stilleben, Nature Morte, Der Sturm postcard, Sammlung Walden, Berlin. Collection Paul Citroen, sold 1928 to Kunstausstellung Der Sturm, requisition by the Nazis in 1937, and missing since.

  • Albert Gleizes, 1911, Le Chemin, Paysage à Meudon, oil on sheet, 146.4 x 114.4 cm. Exhibited at Salon des Indépendants, 1911, Salon des Indépendants, Bruxelles, 1911, Galeries J. Dalmau, Barcelona, 1912, Galerie La Boétie, Salon de La Section d'Or, 1912, stolen by Nazi occupiers from the dwelling house of collector Alphonse Kann during Globe War Ii, returned to its rightful owners in 1997.[11]

  • Albert Gleizes, 1912, Landschaft bei Paris, Paysage près de Paris, Paysage de Courbevoie, oil on canvas, 72.8 ten 87.1 cm, missing from Hannover since 1937.

Further reading [edit]

  • Kline, Thomas. The Recovery of Stolen Art sold in the United states from a "Neutral" Country American University International Constabulary Review 14, no. 1 (1998): 243-248.

See as well [edit]

  • Nazi-looted artworks of Vincent van Gogh
  • Listing of libraries damaged during World War II
  • List of missing treasure
  • The Rape of Europa
  • The Monuments Men 2014 comedy-drama on the theft and recovery of looted art
  • M-Aktion
  • List of claims for restitution for Nazi-looted fine art
  • Vugesta
  • Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce (Due east.R.R.)
  • Aryanization
  • The Holocaust

References [edit]

  1. ^ Wiedemann, Erich (June 18, 2001). "Serie - Teil 7 Jagd Nach Kunst: Die Kunstraeber". Der Spiegel – via Spiegel Online.
  2. ^ Obituary: Walter Farmer. The Economist; London Vol. 344, Iss. 8031, Bearding (Aug 23, 1997): 67.
  3. ^ Petropoulos, Jonathan (1996). Art as Politics in the Tertiary Reich. Chapel Loma: The University of Due north Carolina Press.
  4. ^ "The Führer'due south prerogative and the planned Führer Museum in Linz" Art Database of the National Fund of the Republic of Republic of austria for Victims of National Socialism
  5. ^ Edsel, Robert M. (20 August 2009). The Monuments Men . Hachette/Centre Street. pp. 303-306. ISBN978-1-59995-149-2.
  6. ^ Willi, Korte (September 1, 2006). "Nazi Looted Fine art: The Case of the Missing Perspective". First Person Singular: 59.
  7. ^ Foulkes, Lucia (2015). "The art of atonement: how mandated transparency can aid return masterpieces lost during World War II". Boston Higher International and Comparative Law Review. 38 (ii).
  8. ^ "Most Wanted: Works of Fine art". www.monumentsmenfoundation.org (in German). Monuments Men Foundation. Archived from the original on 12 May 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  9. ^ Vogel, Carol (June 19, 2006). "Lauder Pays $135 One thousand thousand, a Record, for a Klimt Portrait". The New York Times . Retrieved May 15, 2011.
  10. ^ "Freie Universität Berlin: Beschlagnahmeinventar "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art Database)". emuseum.campus.fu-berlin.de.
  11. ^ Site Rose-Valland, Musées Nationaux Récupération, Paysage (Meudon; paysage avec personnage), 1911

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