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In the popular novel The German Lesson, a character based on Nolde falls victim to Nazi policies on “degenerate art”. Recent research on the painter’s life tells a more complex story.
Some experts believe this 17th-century work now up for sale was originally stolen by the Nazis, ... a painting once stolen from Hitler, is scheduled to be sold at auction later this month.
Arts Hitler wanted this painting for his personal museum — now it’s promised to the MFA The museum and donors have reached a resolution with the heirs of two Jewish art dealers to retain a ...
The painting circulated through the opaque private art market for several decades before the Weatherbies purchased it via a private sale in 1992. MFA donors Susan and Matthew Weatherbie. David L ...
Harlan Crow's Nazi memorabilia collection includes a painting with the signature "A. Hitler." But at least two experts think it may be fake.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is stubbornly defending its ownership of Bernardo Bellotto’s Marketplace at Pirna (ca. 1764)—a painting sold by a Jewish collector in 1938 to an art buyer for ...
The 1938 sale of the three paintings for Hitler’s museum was arranged by the art dealer Anna Caspari, from whom Emden had bought the work in 1930. The purchase price was 60,000 Swiss francs.
And weeks before that, police interrupted a sale at the Kloss auction house in Berlin, where three paintings, also supposedly by Hitler, were on the block. At Weidler’s in February, no one ...
While the auction house accepted the paintings were most likely not authentic in pre-sale notes, as they didn’t fit the general description of Hitler’s watercolours, are in a different style ...
The Weidler auction house in Nuremberg, Germany, tried to auction off five paintings allegedly made by Adolf Hitler on Saturday. They were put up for sale among other items believed to be owned by ...
Hitler paintings fail to sell at Germany’s Weidler auction house. A German auction that sparked outrage over the sale of Nazi memorabilia failed to find buyers for five watercolours attributed ...
Five paintings attributed to Adolf Hitler failed to find buyers at an auction held amid anger at the sale of Nazi memorabilia. High starting prices of between €19,000 and €45,000 (US$21,000 ...