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Showing posts with label Rose Valland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rose Valland. Show all posts
02 November 2024

What happened during WWII at the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris?

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Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris courtesy of wikipedia by Marc Masurovsky I have to admit that historians are a strange lot, especially in the c...
20 July 2023

The Auerbach Case: Part Two-Cabal of art dealers

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by Marc Masurovsky Rose Valland, c/o Ministère de la Culture On 10 November 1949, Rose Valland, France’s point person on repatriation and re...
03 January 2020

The destruction of works of art in wartime Paris--Part One

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by Marc Masurovsky This is the first in a series of articles detailing the selective impact of Nazi cultural policy at the Jeu de Paume muse...
10 October 2016

Deconstructing the Jeu de Paume

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by Marc Masurovsky The process of understanding what exactly unfolded at the Jeu de Paume museum in German-occupied Paris between late 194...
10 June 2014

The Real Monuments Men—and Women

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by Elizabeth Karlsgodt, Associate Professor of History, University of Denver Elizabeth Karlsgodt Source: University of Denver, Arts Huma...
13 February 2012

Looted Renoir painting on the French Riviera

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by Marc Masurovsky SS Officer Hermann Brandl, also known as the head of the infamous black market organization in wartime Paris called “O...
11 January 2012

The “three graces” of art restitution

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"The Graces of the Gardens of the Hesperides", Rubens, taken by the ERR Source: Holocaust-Era Assets Portal, NARA, RG 111-SC-3...
08 November 2011

Nazi looted art conference at Lafayette College, October 26-28, 2011: a debriefing (I)

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From left to right: Rachel Davidson, Diane Ahl, Radu Pribic Courtesy: Lafayette College It has now been close to two weeks since La...
14 August 2011

“Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berri”—still missing?

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The basic facts: When the Nazis steal everything there is to steal from the dozen or so members of the French branch of the Rothschild fam...
18 June 2011

MNR (Musées Nationaux Récupération) Notes—R 6 P « Femme au turban, » by Marie Laurencin

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R 6 P Source: Ministère de la culture - Musées Nationaux Récupération Research always begets more research. It’s a bottomless, endl...
25 April 2011

The fate of the Nikolsburg hoard

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Nikolsburg Castle Source: Wikipedia Nikolsburg, now Mikulov , lies in the south Moravian region of the Czech Republic. After the Munic...