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Göring's man in Paris : the story of a Nazi art plunderer and his world / Jonathan Petropoulos.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection N8795.5.L64 P48 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petropoulos, Jonathan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lohse, Bruno, 1911-2007.
- Lohse, Bruno.
- Art dealers--Germany--Biography.
- Art dealers.
- Art thefts.
- Art--Corrupt practices.
- Art.
- World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--France--Paris.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage.
- Art treasures in war.
- Confiscations.
- Destruction and pillage.
- France--Paris.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 408 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Goering's man in Paris
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler's art looting agency in Paris, he went on to help supervise the systematic theft and distribution of more than thirty thousand artworks, taken largely from French Jews, and to assist Göring in amassing an enormous private art collection. By the 1950s Lohse was officially denazified but was back in the art dealing world, offering masterpieces of dubious origin to American museums. After his death, dozens of paintings by Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro, among others, were found in his Zurich bank vault and adorning the walls of his Munich home. Jonathan Petropoulos spent nearly a decade interviewing Lohse and continues to serve as an expert witness for Holocaust restitution cases. Here he tells the story of Lohse's life, offering a critical examination of the postwar art world.-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Prologue : Kaffee und Kuchen with Bruno
- Introduction
- Art historian, art dealer, member of the SS
- The "King of Paris"
- Darker hues and war's end
- Called to account
- The amnesia years
- Lohse in North America
- War stories, war secrets
- Restitution
- Bruno Lohse and the Wildensteins
- Epilogue : On the trail of the Nazi plunderers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Garrison fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780300251920
- 0300251920
- OCLC:
- 1230528211
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