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Jahn became the Art Consultant to the German Embassy in Vienna in 1937, where he would then search for, purchase, and collect individual pieces of Hitler's art, allegedly in order to destroy a majority of the paintings. Jahn sold one of the largest collections of Hitler's art, about 18 pieces, with an average selling price of $50,000. [13]
The German invasion of the Netherlands (Dutch: Duitse aanval op Nederland), otherwise known as the Battle of the Netherlands (Dutch: Slag om Nederland), was a military campaign, part of Case Yellow (German: Fall Gelb), the Nazi German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands) and France during World War II.
The Pilgrims moved to the Netherlands around 1607–08 and lived in Leiden, Holland, a city of 30,000 inhabitants. [16] Leiden was a thriving industrial center, [ 17 ] and many members were able to support themselves working at Leiden University or in the textile, printing, and brewing trades.
BERLIN (AP) - A 100-year-old watercolor of Munich's old city hall is expected to fetch at least 50,000 euros ($60,000) at auction this weekend, not so much for its artistic value as for the ...
Known as The Embarkation of the Pilgrims, the 12 by 18 feet (3.7 by 5.5 m) painting is a scene on board Speedwell while harboured in Delfshaven, Holland. The historical event dramatized took place on 22 July 1620. [7] Weir would later paint another, much smaller oil on canvas that is now displayed in the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The paintings ...
Restitution request to German authorities after the painting was discovered in Munich in the hoard of the son of Hitler's art dealer [118] « collection Gurlitt » in 2013 [119] Restituted to the heirs in 2015. Jean-Louis Forain, Portrait de femme de profil, oil painting, 1881 Armand Dorville
In 1937, Hitler opened a museum. The Great German Art Exhibition, the museum known as Degenerate Art, opened to a limited audience containing the first of his collection. [3] This was his first step in his art collection. The ERR (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg) was ordered to empty and loot museums to gather art for Hitler's growing ...
Art, Ideology, and Economics in Nazi Germany: The Reich Chambers of Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-4607-4; Thoms, Robert: The Artists in the Great German Art Exhibition Munich 1937–1944, Volume I – painting and printing. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-937294-01-8.