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Göring's man in Paris, the story of a Nazi art plunderer and his world, Jonathan Petropoulos

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Göring's man in Paris, the story of a Nazi art plunderer and his world, Jonathan Petropoulos

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Göring's man in Paris

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1230528211

Responsibility statement

Jonathan Petropoulos

Sub title

the story of a Nazi art plunderer and his world

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

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Goering's man in Paris

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