The Israel Museum launches online catalog (including images) of art stolen during WWII
Posted on August 28, 2007 • By Deena Levenstein
Category: Art and Culture |
My stomach turns as I look at the paintings at The Israel Museum’s newly launched site, “World War II Provenance Research Online“. This site is part of the Israel Museum’s ongoing effort to return art objects to their legal owners. It is so hard to fathom that many or most of the rightful owners of these peaceful pieces of art (take a look here and you’ll see what I mean) were brutally treated.
There are hundreds of thousands of these objects - paintings, printings and drawings and Judaica - now cataloged online by the Israel Museum.
I guess it is nice to know that the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Israel is doing this work. I suppose that means the Nazis did not succeed.
The painting shown here is Landscape (Flandria) by Erick Heckel, Germany, 1883-1970. Courtesy of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
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I enjoyed your post, it shares my thoughts on this story about Holocaust era art recovery. You may wish to read my weblog HEIRS:Observations on Provenance. http://heirs.typepad.com
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