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Fearing similar litigation, auction website eBay enacted new guidelines regarding the sale of Nazi memorabilia in 2003. eBay's policies prohibit items relating to Nazi media propaganda, items made after 1933 that contains a swastika, Nazi reproduction items such as uniforms, and all Holocaust-related products. Memorabilia such as coins, stamps ...
Degenerate Art auction. In 1939 the Gallery Fischer in Lucerne organized an auction of degenerate art confiscated by the Nazis. The auction took place on 30 June 1939 in the Grand Hotel National. [1] The auction received considerable international interest, but many of the bidders who were expected to attend were absent because they were ...
In 1940 Lange had sales of over 2 million Reichsmark, a quarter of which was a result of the forced sale of Jewish property. By the end of 1943, Lange had held 35 auctions for about 15,000 items. Lange moved auctions to Vienna in October 1943 to avoid Allied airstrikes. [4] German museums, art dealers and art collectors acquired art from Lange.
Art of Nazi Germany was characterized by a style of Romantic realism based on classical models. While banning modern styles as degenerate, the Nazis promoted paintings that were narrowly traditional in manner and that exalted the "blood and soil" values of racial purity, militarism, and obedience.
Vienna State Opera, painted by Hitler in 1912. Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945, was also a painter. [1] During his Vienna years (1908–1913) he made his living as a professional artist and produced hundreds of works, but had little commercial success. A number of his paintings were recovered after ...
Rolf Nikolaus Cornelius Gurlitt (28 December 1932 – 6 May 2014) was a German art collection owner. The son of Hildebrand Gurlitt, an art gallery director and Nazi-era dealer of looted art, Gurlitt inherited from his father a collection of over 1,400 artworks known as the Gurlitt trove or Gurlitt Collection, a small number (less than 20) of which were subsequently demonstrated to have been ...
Nazi plunder (German: Raubkunst) was organized stealing of art and other items which occurred as a result of the organized looting of European countries during the time of the Nazi Party in Germany. Jewish property was looted beginning in 1933 in Germany and was a key part of the Holocaust .
Claim for restitution to Public Galery of Art, New Zealand, for five paintings in the 'école de Macchiaioli. After an amicable settlement in April 1999, three paintings remained in the museum and two were placed in an auction. The proceeds of the sale were divided between the museum and the heirs. [7] [8]