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  2. Art and World War II - Wikipedia

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    First, art (and, more generally, culture) found itself at the centre of an ideological war. Second, during World War II, many artists found themselves in the most difficult conditions (in an occupied country, in internment camps, in death camps) and their works are a testimony to a powerful "urge to create." Such creative impulse can be ...

  3. Art theft and looting during World War II - Wikipedia

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    Art theft and looting occurred on a massive scale during World War II. It originated with the policies of the Axis countries, primarily Nazi Germany and Japan, which systematically looted occupied territories. Near the end of the war the Soviet Union, in turn, began looting reclaimed and occupied territories. "The grand scale of looted artwork ...

  4. Nazi storage sites for art during World War II - Wikipedia

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    It housed art confiscated from Parisian Jews—more than 21,000 objects [9] —and about 2,000 works from the Bavarian State Painting Collections. [ 10 ] The collection of the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum (now the Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg ) was transported to a salt mine in the nearby town of Stassfurt , in order to protect it from Allied ...

  5. War Artists' Advisory Committee - Wikipedia

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    The War at Sea;- shown at the National Gallery in September 1944 consisted of 52 paintings by Norman Wilkinson. Wilkinson was a World War I navy veteran and during World War II he travelled extensively on Royal Navy ships and was aboard HMS Jervis on D-Day. WAAC bought one painting from Wilkinson and he donated the other fifty-one paintings to ...

  6. Sonderkommando photographs - Wikipedia

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    The images were taken within 15–30 minutes of each other by an inmate inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex. Usually named only as Alex, a Jewish prisoner from Greece, the photographer was a member of the Sonderkommando , inmates forced to work in and around the gas chambers.

  7. Wikipedia : Featured pictures/History/World War II

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    Senior American commanders of World War II at Military history of the United States during World War II, by the United States Army Female internees practicing calisthenics at Manzanar , by Ansel Adams (edited by trialsanderrors )

  8. List of claims for restitution for Nazi-looted art - Wikipedia

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    Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy acquired in 1934 or 1935. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy sold before his death to the Jewish art gallery of Justin Thannhauser. Thannhauser fled Germany and spent most of war living in Switzerland. He then sold painting to former chairman of the Museum of Modern Art William S. Paley in 1936.

  9. Military art - Wikipedia

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    Edward Ardizzone's pictures concentrated entirely on soldiers relaxing or performing routine duties, and were praised by many soldiers: "He is the only person who has caught the atmosphere of this war" felt Douglas Cooper, the art critic and historian, friend of Picasso, and then in a military medical unit. [48]

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