Summary
PRINTED ON COATED HOCK AND FIUJED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS, Lost Lives, Lost Art - subtitled "Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice" - is part coffee-table book, part history. It tells the story of looted art through collectors who lost their art to the Nazis, and attempts by their heirs for restitution.
While the family name is not familiar to most readers, looted art from their collection certainly is. In 2006 it made headlines when paintings of Adele BlochBauer by Gustave Klimt - especially the golden "Adele BlochBauer I" (this page, at center) that graces the dustjacket of Lost Lives, Lost Art - were restored to the family's heirs and brought from Austria to New York.IN THE 192OS IN BERUN, Paul Westheim purchased works by contemGerman artists, so that his apartment "resembled a modern art gallery". The Nazis would soon declare many of the works "degenerate".See the full content of this document
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Nazis at Work
Only infrequently is a window opened into the rarefied world of art and private and museum art collections. Sometimes when that happens, we have laid bare the sordid underside of what, from the outside, is generally perceived as a cultured, refined and sophisticated realm.
ART THEFT AND FORGERY have a long history, as does war-time plundering of works of art.Nonethel...See the full content of this document
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