The safekeepers : a memoir of the arts at the end of World War II / Walter I. Farmer ; revised and prefaced by Klaus Goldmann ; with an introduction by Margaret Farmer Planton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farmer, Walter I. (Walter Ings), 1911- author.

Contributor:

Goldmann, Klaus, editor, writer of introduction.

Planton, Margaret Farmer, writer of introduction.

Series:

Cultural property studies.

Cultural Property Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz--History--20th century.

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz.

World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Art and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

Art treasures in war--Germany.

Art treasures in war.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2015

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; New York, [New York] : Walter de Gruyter, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Farmer was a staff member of the US Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives unit of the US Army, and was stationed in German after World War II. He and fellow officers wrote the Wiesbaden Manifesto and took other measures to keep German cultural heritage artifacts such as paintings and sculptures from being transported to the US. His account has been revised by Goldman, with the Prehistory and Early History Museum in Berlin). c. Book News Inc.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction / Planton, Margaret Farmer

Chapter one: My Castle

Chapter two: Honest Duty

Chapter three: Museum Man

Chapter four: Westward Ho, Watteau!

Chapter five: Fine Arts and Archives

Chapter six: The Search for Missing Treasures

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Appendix IV

Appendix V

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110893502

3110893509

OCLC:

979753547