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Lane, Mary M.
Subjects
Gurlitt, Hildebrand.
Gurlitt, Cornelius, 1932-2014.
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Political and social views.
Art thefts -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Art treasures in war -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany.
Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Germany -- Cultural policy.
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
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Lane, Mary M.
Gurlitt, Hildebrand.
Gurlitt, Cornelius, 1932-2014.
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Political and social views.
Art thefts -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Art treasures in war -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany.
Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Germany -- Cultural policy.
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
MARC Display
Hitler
's
last
hostages
:
looted
art
and the
soul
of the
Third
Reich
/ Mary M. Lane.
by
Lane, Mary M.
PublicAffairs, 2019.
Call #:
364.16287 L266h
Subjects
Gurlitt, Hildebrand.
Gurlitt, Cornelius, 1932-2014.
Hitler
, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Political and social views.
Art
thefts -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Art
treasures in war -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany.
Art
-- Mutilation, defacement, etc. -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Germany -- Cultural policy.
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
ISBN:
9781610397360 (pbk.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
ix, 321 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : col. ill.; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Prologue: Wake-up call -- Portrait of the dictator as a young man -- Enigma of war -- Eclipse of the sun -- Adolf'
s
silver hammer -- Bad company corrupts good morals -- Cultural complicity -- Revisionist history -- Our sincere condolences --
Hitler
's
last
hostages
-- Epilogue: Business as usual -- Timeline.
Summary:
"Adolf
Hitler
's obsession with
art
not only fueled his vision of a purified Nazi state--it was the core of his fascist ideology. Its aftermath lives on to this day. Nazism ascended by brute force and by cultural tyranny. Weimar Germany was a society in turmoil, and
Hitler
's rise was achieved not only by harnessing the military but also by restricting artistic expression.
Hitler
, an artist himself, promised the dejected citizens of postwar Germany a purified
Reich
, purged of "degenerate" influences. When
Hitler
came to power in 1933, he removed so-called "degenerate"
art
from German society and promoted artists whom he considered the embodiment of the "Aryan ideal." Artists who had produced challenging and provocative work fled the country. Curators and
art
dealers organized their stock. Thousands of great artworks disappeared--and only a fraction of them were rediscovered after World War II. In 2012, the German government confiscated roughly 1,200 works by Henri Matisse, George Grosz, Claude Monet, and other masters from the apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt, the reclusive son of one of
Hitler
's primary
art
dealers. For two years, the government kept the discovery a secret. In
Hitler
's
Last
Hostages
, Mary M. Lane reveals the fate of those works and tells the definitive story of
art
in the
Third
Reich
and Germany'
s
ongoing struggle to right the wrongs of the past."--Jacket.
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