The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy To Steal The World's Greatest Works Of Art
New York: HarperCollins, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. The bindings are tight and square. Text is clean; Appears unopened. 9.5 inches tall; 278 pages with Chapter Notes and Index. Illustrated with plates.
The book 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.
Feliciano focuses on five major collections—the Rothschilds, the Paul Rosenbergs, the Bernheim-Jeunes, the David-Weills, and the Schlosses—to illustrate how Nazis (and many others) took advantage of anti-Jewish laws to confiscate Jewish art. Between ideological programs (such as Otto Kummel's list of German art in France to be repatriated), the personal rapaciousness of officials (Goering being a particularly famous example), and the greed of collaborators such as the Parisian antique dealers Yves Perdoux and Count de Lestang, major works were dispersed, sold for profit, and, on occasion, destroyed.
The book is filled with private family photos of this art, some of which have 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: Nazi Art Looting, Holocaust, Cultural Heritage, French Resistance, Postwar Art Recovery, History, Art History, World War II Studies, True Crime.
Item #20410
ISBN: 0465041949
Price: $40.00
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