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Author Feliciano, Hector.
Uniform Title Musée disparu. English
Title The lost museum : the Nazi conspiracy to steal the world's greatest works of art / Hector Feliciano ; [translation by Tim Bent and the author].
Publication Info [S. l.] : Basic Books, c1997.


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Descript v, 280 p., 48 p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Note Originally published in French: Paris : Editions Austral, 1995.
Translated from the French.
Contents pt. 1. A certain love of art. Vermeer's Astronomer, or, Hitler's blind spot -- The Kümmel Report, or, The Nazis' reply to Napoleon -- Hermann Goering, "friend of the arts" -- pt. 2. Anatomy of a pillage. The exemplary looting of the Rothschild Collections -- The Paul Rosenberg Gallery : modern and "degenerate" art for sale -- The Bernheim-Jeune Collection, or, The burning of The Jas de Bouffan -- David David-Weill, or, The patron stripped bare -- The Schloss Collection, or, Dutch painters for Hitler -- pt. 3. Art for sale. Visitors to the Jeu de Paume -- Business as usual : the Paris art market during the war -- Switzerland : the importance of being neutral -- pt. 4. Revenants. The found and the lost -- A short Swiss epilogue : purchased skeletons in the Kunstkammern -- Something new on the eastern front -- The purgatory of the MNRs -- Appendix A. The Schenker papers -- Appendix B. An interview with Alain Vernay.
ISBN 9780465041916
0465041914
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Author Feliciano, Hector.
Subject Art thefts -- France -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war.
Pillage -- France.
Germany -- Cultural policy.
Alt author Bent, Timothy.
Descript v, 280 p., 48 p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Note Originally published in French: Paris : Editions Austral, 1995.
Translated from the French.
Contents pt. 1. A certain love of art. Vermeer's Astronomer, or, Hitler's blind spot -- The Kümmel Report, or, The Nazis' reply to Napoleon -- Hermann Goering, "friend of the arts" -- pt. 2. Anatomy of a pillage. The exemplary looting of the Rothschild Collections -- The Paul Rosenberg Gallery : modern and "degenerate" art for sale -- The Bernheim-Jeune Collection, or, The burning of The Jas de Bouffan -- David David-Weill, or, The patron stripped bare -- The Schloss Collection, or, Dutch painters for Hitler -- pt. 3. Art for sale. Visitors to the Jeu de Paume -- Business as usual : the Paris art market during the war -- Switzerland : the importance of being neutral -- pt. 4. Revenants. The found and the lost -- A short Swiss epilogue : purchased skeletons in the Kunstkammern -- Something new on the eastern front -- The purgatory of the MNRs -- Appendix A. The Schenker papers -- Appendix B. An interview with Alain Vernay.
ISBN 9780465041916
0465041914
Author Feliciano, Hector.
Subject Art thefts -- France -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war.
Pillage -- France.
Germany -- Cultural policy.
Alt author Bent, Timothy.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  N8795.3.F8 F4613  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  N8795.3.F8 F4613  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE
2 copies being processed for BJL.

Subject Art thefts -- France -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war.
Pillage -- France.
Germany -- Cultural policy.
Descript v, 280 p., 48 p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Note Originally published in French: Paris : Editions Austral, 1995.
Translated from the French.
Contents pt. 1. A certain love of art. Vermeer's Astronomer, or, Hitler's blind spot -- The Kümmel Report, or, The Nazis' reply to Napoleon -- Hermann Goering, "friend of the arts" -- pt. 2. Anatomy of a pillage. The exemplary looting of the Rothschild Collections -- The Paul Rosenberg Gallery : modern and "degenerate" art for sale -- The Bernheim-Jeune Collection, or, The burning of The Jas de Bouffan -- David David-Weill, or, The patron stripped bare -- The Schloss Collection, or, Dutch painters for Hitler -- pt. 3. Art for sale. Visitors to the Jeu de Paume -- Business as usual : the Paris art market during the war -- Switzerland : the importance of being neutral -- pt. 4. Revenants. The found and the lost -- A short Swiss epilogue : purchased skeletons in the Kunstkammern -- Something new on the eastern front -- The purgatory of the MNRs -- Appendix A. The Schenker papers -- Appendix B. An interview with Alain Vernay.
Alt author Bent, Timothy.
ISBN 9780465041916
0465041914

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