General Information

Uniform Title

Musée disparu.

Author/Creator

Feliciano, Hector, 1952-

Language

English.

Published

New York : BasicBooks, c1997.

Physical Description

ix, 278 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

Between 1939 and 1944, as the Nazis overran Europe, they were also quietly conducting another type of pillage. The Lost Museum tells the story of the Jewish art collectors and gallery owners in France who were stripped of rare works by artists such as Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas, Cézanne, and Picasso. Before they were through, the Nazis had taken more than 20,000 paintings, sculptures, and drawings from France. The Lost Museum explores the Nazis’ systematic confiscation of these artworks, focusing on the private collections of five families: Rothschild, Rosenberg, Bernheim-Jeune, David-Weill, and Schloss. The book is filled with private family photos of this art, some of which has never before been seen by the public, and it traces the fate of these works as they passed through the hands of top German officials, unscrupulous art dealers, and unwitting auction houses such as Christie’s and Sotheby’s.

Subjects

Subject

Art thefts > France > History > 20th century.

World War, > 1939-1945 > Art and the war.

Pillage > France.

Germany > Cultural policy.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Hector Feliciano.

ISBN

0465041949

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	709/.44/09044 FEL		General Stacks	Donation of Márk László-Herbert.

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