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Item Number: 136812
Title: The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret Legacy
Author: Hickley, Catherine
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780500252154
Description: London: Thames and Hudson, 2015. 24cm., hardcover, 272pp., 40 illus. Summary: In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German customs authorities seized more than 1,280 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures by artists including Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Otto Dix and Paul Klee. When Cornelius Gurlitt’s trove became public in November 2013, it caused a worldwide media sensation. Catherine Hickley has delved into archives and conducted dozens of interviews to uncover the story behind the headlines. Her book illuminates a dark period of German history, untangling a web of deceit and silence that has prevented the heirs of Jewish collectors from recovering art stolen from their families more than seven decades ago by the Nazis. Tracing the origins of the Munich hoard takes us from the street-corner battles of Kristallnacht in Breslau, Silesia, to modern-day Madison Avenue in New York; from the charred ruins of post-war Dresden to the cosy prosperity of the Swiss capital Berne in 2014. We witness the shady dealings of the Paris art world in the 1940s and listen in on political debates in modern-day Berlin, as politicians and lawyers puzzle over the inadequacies of a legal framework that to this day falls short in securing justice for the heirs of those robbed by the Nazis.
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