LEADER 03206cam a2200385 a 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20221208145818.0 008 990527s2000 nyua b 001 0ceng 010 99033372 020 0195129644 (alk. paper) 040 DLC |cDLC |dDLC |dhubpceuo |beng 041 eng 043 e-gx--- 050 00 N6868.5.N37 |bP4823 2000 082 00 709/.43/09043 |221 100 1 Petropoulos, Jonathan, |d1961- 245 14 The Faustian bargain : |bthe art world in Nazi Germany / |cJonathan Petropoulos. 260 New York, N.Y. : |bOxford University Press, |c2000. 300 xvii, 395 p. : |bill. ; |c25 cm. 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-376) and index. 520 Nazi art looting has been the subject of enormous international attention in recent years, and the subject of two history bestsellers, Hector Feliciano's The Lost Museum and Lynn Nicholas's The Rape of Europa. But such books leave us wondering: What made thoughtful, educated, artistic men and women decide to put their talents in the service of a brutal and inhuman regime? This question is the starting point for The Faustian Bargain, Jonathan Petropoulos's study of five key figure in the art world of Nazi Germany. Petropoulos follows the careers of these prominent individuals that like Faust, that German archetype chose to pursue artistic ends through collaboration with diabolical forces. Readers meet Ernst Buchner, the distinguished museum director and expert on Old Master paintings who "repatriated" Van Eyck's Ghent altarpiece to Germany, and Karl Haberstock, an art dealer who filled German museums with works bought virtually at gunpoint from Jewish collectors. Robert Scholz, an art critic in the Third Reich, became an officer in the chief art looting unit in France and Kajetan Muhlmanna leading art historian headed looting agencies in Poland and the Netherlands. Finally, there is Arno Breker, a gifted artist who exchanged his modernist style for monumental realism and became Hitler's favorite sculptor. If it is striking that these educated men became part of the Nazi machine, it is equally striking that most of them lived comfortably after the war. Based on previously unreleased information and recently declassified documents, The Faustian Bargain is a gripping read about the art world during this period, and a fascinating examination of the intense relationship between culture and politics in the Third Reich. 580 The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection 650 0 National socialism and art. 650 0 Art and state |zGermany |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Art treasures in war |zGermany. 650 0 Nazis |zGermany |xArt collections. 650 0 Art |zGermany |xBiography. 651 0 Germany |xCultural policy |xHistory |y20th century. 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6709_000000000000000__43_09043_PET |70 |8GEN |9161048OSA |bOSA |d2022-12-01 |eComFas |l0 |o709/.43/09043 PET |r2022-12-01 |w2022-12-01 |yBK |cGeneral Stacks 920 01 pXAlA9oG 992 01 709_000000000000000__43_09043_PET |bSZQ_ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ__VW_ZQZVW_AL6 966 |cIn the Research Room