The grave near Zwickau, east Germany, resting place of 42 holocaust victims, has been dug into by fortune seekers looking for the Amber Room.
The 1,400 looted Nazi artworks found in a Munich apartment are just a small percentage of the thousands that disappeared. What else is out there waiting to be found?
The return of seven paintings, including Abraham and The Three Angels by Sebastiano Ricci (pictured), will encourage other claimants to come forward in the UK, a senior policy adviser for Arts Council England said.
A crack team sent to save art from the Nazis are the stars of George Clooney’s The Monuments Men... but where are the Brits? And women like Anne Olivier Bell?
"Art belongs to humanity. Without this we are animals. We just fight, we live, we die. Art is what makes us human". - Mikhail Piotrovsky, ...
Nearly seven decades after the end of World War II, France is still attempting to locate the rightful owners of art that was looted by the Nazis. The Internet and improved technology have helped, but it's still a painstaking process.
Here is the list of the most important artworks, masterpieces that were lost or destroyed during World War II.
A work of art is a treasure that must be carefully conserved for the benefit of future generations. However stolen masterpieces are reported every year.
George Clooney’s The Monuments Men, a historical epic centered on a motley crew of allied soldiers tasked with preserving and seizing Nazi-stolen art during World War II, is based on the true story of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program—a group established in 1943 by the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of the Allied armies. Several of these soldiers served on the front lines of the war, and eventually recovered thousands of paintings and sculptures seized by the Nazis by the likes of Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, Vermeer, and more. Hitler, a former art student, was stockpiling rare works of art—mostly in mines throughout Germany, as well as the Neuschwanstein Castle—to populate his proposed Führermuseum in Linz, Austria. Here are some of the finest stolen works of art that the Monuments Men recovered from the Nazis.
London's Victoria and Albert Museum is publishing online two volumes which record what the Nazi regime did with confiscated 'degenerate art'.
Singulart explores Raphael’s history, examining the theft of Portrait of a Young Man and discussing the composition of the portrait.
The Amber Room - valued at around £250million in today's money - was looted from the palace of Peter the Great in Soviet Russia by invading Nazi troops in 1941.
Here is the list of the most important artworks, masterpieces that were lost or destroyed during World War II.
The son of the man who oversaw the confiscations of what the Nazis termed "degenerate art" — because they considered it un-German — reportedly hoarded some of the works in a Munich apartment. The trove, said to be worth about $1.35 billion, included paintings by Henri Matisse, Emil Nolde and Max Liebermann that had been missing for decades. Here’s a look at where the art was found, as well as other types of degenerate art.
The Monuments Men were given an impossible, well, monumental job—which of course is why their story makes for a great book and a great movie. If not set up to fail, exactly, they were certainly looking for needles in haystacks. In fact it’s hard to imagine a more sparsely staffed unit of the Allied war . . . Keep reading »
Sale records from Nazi-era auction house Weinmüller, which trafficked art looted from Jewish owners, are now available online at Germany's Lost Art Database
Wikipedia article about Schliemann, Heinrich
We pit The Monuments Men true story vs. the movie. See pics of the real George Stout, Rose Valland and James Rorimer.
A crack team sent to save art from the Nazis are the stars of George Clooney’s The Monuments Men... but where are the Brits? And women like Anne Olivier Bell?
A blog exploring the work of all four Getty programs. Learn what's new and get a glimpse behind the scenes.
An online list of Nazi-looted art will be published by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Human fossils, an amber room and a Raphael masterpiece all went missing during WWII.
