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  2. Christian Griepenkerl - Wikipedia

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    His "antiquated views" led to repeated protests on the part of his students and later even to withdrawals, leading among other things to the founding of the New Art Group. Griepenkerl also became famous posthumously for having rejected Adolf Hitler's application to train at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 1907, when Hitler was provisionally ...

  3. Evacuation of the Louvre collection during World War II

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    The last art piece to leave the museum was the Winged Victory of Samothrace, which was moved on September 3, 1939, the day the French ultimatum to Germany expired. [ 7 ] Throughout the war, the art pieces were clandestinely moved from château to château to avoid being taken back by the Nazis. [ 1 ]

  4. Paris in World War II - Wikipedia

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    On August 27th, in anticipation of air raids, workmen had begun taking down the stained glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle.The same day, curators at the Louvre, summoned back from summer vacation, and aided by packers from the nearby La Samaritaine and Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville department stores, began cataloging and packing the major works of art, which were put into crates and labeled ...

  5. Paintings by Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia

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    The Art of Adolf Hitler: A Study of His Paintings and Drawings. Grand Oak Books. Price, Billy F. (1984). Adolf Hitler: The Unknown Artist. Stephen Cook. ISBN 978-0-9612894-0-9. Price, Billy F. (1983). Adolf Hitler als Maler und Zeichner: ein Werkkatalog der Ölgemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen und Architekturskizzen. Gallant Verlag.

  6. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna - Wikipedia

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    In 1822 the art cabinet grew significantly with the bequest of honorary member Anton Franz de Paula Graf Lamberg-Sprinzenstein. His collection still forms the backbone of the art on display. [2] Main entrance on Schillerplatz. In 1872, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria approved a statute making the academy the supreme government authority for ...

  7. Degenerate art - Wikipedia

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    Albert Gleizes, 1912, Landschaft bei Paris, Paysage près de Paris, Paysage de Courbevoie, missing from Hannover since 1937 [20] [21] Jean Metzinger, 1913, En Canot (Im Boot), oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm, confiscated by the Nazis c.1936 and displayed at the Degenerate Art Exhibition in Munich. The painting has been missing ever since. [22] [23]

  8. Art in Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. School of Paris - Wikipedia

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    School of Paris coined by André Warnod, was used to describe this loose community, particularly of non-French artists, centered in the cafes, salons and shared workspaces and galleries of Montparnasse. [1] Many artists of Jewish origin formed a prominent part of the School of Paris and later heavily influenced art in Israel.