The Lost Masters: Looting of Europe's Treasurehouses - Hardcover

Harclerode, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0575052546 ISBN 13: 9780575052543

Verlag: W&N, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Peter Harclerode Brendan Pittaway

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Reseña del editor:

Fired by his ambition to establish the world's finest museums and galleries in his former home town in Austria, Adolf Hitler systematically looted Europe's treasurehouses to accumulate a magnificent hoard of important and priceless art collections. Much loot was recovered at the war's end, but vast quantities disappeared once again with the arrival in Germany of Josef Stalin's Red Army, which indulged in wholesale pillage while the other Allies picked over the ruins of the Third Reich for their own enrichment.

The Lost Masters is a dramatic and tragic account of the looting of Europe and the attempts by those who lost so much to reclaim their heritage in the face of indifference from governments and the international art trade. It tells of an art world which has continued to make huge profits from looted works of art, while frustrating attempts by the rightful owners to seek restitution.

Biografía del autor:

Peter Harclerode is the author of several books of military history and related subjects. Brendan Pittaway is an investigative journalist currently working on the Sunday Mirror

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• Verlag: W&N
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0575052546
• ISBN 13: 9780575052543
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416