Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice by Müller, Melissa
Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice by Müller, Melissa

Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice

The legendary names include Rothschild, Mendelssohn, Bloch-Bauer--distinguished bankers, industrialists, diplomats, and art collectors. Their diverse taste ranged...
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Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice by Müller, Melissa

Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice

$703.62
Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice by Müller, Melissa

Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice

$703.62
Author: Melissa Müller
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The legendary names include Rothschild, Mendelssohn, Bloch-Bauer--distinguished bankers, industrialists, diplomats, and art collectors. Their diverse taste ranged from manuscripts and musical instru­ments to paintings by Old Masters and the avant-garde. But their stigma as Jews in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe doomed them to exile or death in Hitler's concentration camps. Here, after years of meticulous research, Melissa M ller (Anne Frank: The Biography) and Monika Tatzkow (Nazi Looted Art) present the tragic, compelling stories of 15 Jewish collectors, the dispersal of their extraordinary collections through forced sale and/or confiscation, and the ongoing efforts of their heirs to recover their inheritance. For every victory in the effort to return these works to their rightful heirs, there are daunting defeats and long court battles. This real-life legal thriller follows works by Rembrandt, Klimt, Pissarro, Kandinsky, and others.

Praise for Lost Lives, Lost Art:

"A heartbreaking and enthralling story of the brutal and mindless Nazi destruction of a singularly cultivated caste of rich German and Austrian Jews and the pillage of their great art collections: a world that was lost and could never be recreated." Louis Begley

Each chapter focuses on a single collector. . . the adulatory profiles are] matched with an attractive layout and an abundance of well-selected images. Wall Street Journal

The book is meticulously researched, brilliantly and dispassionately written, and is in all likelihood a game changer in the world of art, art provenance, and art restitution that will resound for years to come. ForeWord Reviews

Richly illustrated with excellent art reproductions and family photographs, this is a solid addition to works on Nazi art plundering and the world of art restitution, ownership, and property rights. This will be of great interest to readers wanting to know more about upper-class Austrian and German Jews. Recommended. Library Journal

Author: Melissa Müller, Monika Tatzkow
Publisher: Vendome Press
Published: 11/01/2010
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.91lbs
Size: 10.32h x 8.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780865652637


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2010 pg. 60
Foreword 08/17/2010

About the Author
Melissa Müller wrote the bestselling Anne Frank: The Biography, and is coauthor with Traudl Junge of Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary, which was the basis for the film Downfall.



Monika Tatzkow, a historian, is coauthor of the restitution-case handbook Nazi Looted Art.





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