Lynn H. Nicholas
Autor/a de The Rape of Europa : The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Lynn H. Nicholas
Obres associades
Mauerbach benefit sale : on behalf of the federation of Jewish communities of Austria. (1996) — Prefaci, algunes edicions — 6 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Nicholas, Lynn H.
- Nom oficial
- Nicholas, Lynn Holman
- Data de naixement
- 1939-11-11
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- New London, Connecticut, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Washington DC, USA
Belgium - Educació
- Oxford University (BA|1964)
Radcliffe College
University of Madrid (Dipl.)
Institut Royal d'Histoire de l'Art et d'Archéologie de Bruxelles - Professions
- National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Author
Advisor to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States - Premis i honors
- Légion d'Honneur
Amicus Poloniae
National Book Critics Circle Award (1995)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 2
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 1,027
- Popularitat
- #25,075
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 13
- ISBN
- 16
- Llengües
- 6
- Preferit
- 1
But it covers so much more in its densely packed, detailed research driven pages of which The Monuments Men is just a small part.
While the Nazi art confiscation is well documented and told, this book also covers the less talked about destruction of art by both sides (the Allies being particularly destructive in Italy), the bargaining and using of art to buy things such as transit visas, the boom in the world-wide art trade as items previously held in museums or private collections came on the market. While the Nazis did steal a lot, they were also the most rapacious buyers of art and dealers, and forgers, around the world made fortunes off them.
I found it fascinating to read how certain parts of the German infrastructure would hinder the confiscation and transfer of looted art, such as the Army in Paris refusing to supply trucks, or people starting shell companies that could then claim certain collections were “German owned” and stop them from being moved.
There are also stories of ingenious methods used to hide art treasures (sometimes in plain sight), and not so clever (a member of the Rothchild family in Holland burying art under a sand-dune and not marking it or even writing down its location!)
Academic in tone it can be a bit of a slog to get through, but it’s full of interesting stories.… (més)