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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler , 1889-1945, founder and leader of National Socialism (Nazism), and German dictator, b. Braunau in Upper Austria. Early Life The son of Alois Hitler (1837-1903), an Austrian customs official, Adolf Hitler dropped out of high school, and after his mother's death in 1907 moved to... Read more |
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Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann , 1884-1950, German painter. A member of the Berlin secession from 1908 to 1911, he was impressionistic in his early style. A subsequent expressionistic phase was altered c.1917 by the savage new objectivity of George Grosz . Beckmann developed a richer, more personal, more... Read more |
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Ernst Barlach
Ernst Barlach , 1870-1938, German expressionist sculptor, graphic artist, and writer. After studying at the Dresden Art Academy he lived in Paris (1895-96) and in Berlin, Hamburg, and other German cities. A trip to Russia in 1906 gave new impetus to his art. Barlach pioneered in the introduction of... Read more |
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Johannes Wilde
Wilde, Johannes (b Budapest, 2 June 1891; d London, 15 Sept. 1970). Hungarian-born art historian who became an Austrian citizen in 1928 and a British citizen in 1947. From 1923 to 1938 he was on the staff of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and he gained an international reputation with his... Read more |
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Fritz Wotruba
Wotruba, Fritz (1907–1975). The leading Austrian sculptor of the 20th century, also a designer and architect. He was born in Vienna and trained there as an engraver, 1921–4, before studying sculpture under Anton Hanak (1875–1934). His masterly craftsmanship soon won him... Read more |
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degenerate art
degenerate art (entartete Kunst). Term applied by the Nazis to all contemporary art that did not correspond to their ideology (see NATIONAL SOCIALIST ART). Such art, which included most avant-garde work, was systematically defamed and suppressed in Germany throughout the period when the Nazi Party... Read more |
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Oswald Spengler
Oswald Spengler , 1880-1936, German historian and philosopher. His studies covered many fields, among them mathematics, science, philosophy, history, and art. His major work, The Decline of the West (2 vol., 1918-22; tr. 1926-28), brought him worldwide fame. Spengler maintained that every culture... Read more |
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Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann , 1847-1935, German genre painter and etcher. He went to Paris in 1873, where he was impressed by the Barbizon school of painters. In Holland he was influenced by Frans Hals and Jozef Israëls . His early works were realistic, but beginning about 1890 he developed a style... Read more |
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Dachau
Dachau , city, Bavaria, S Germany, on the Amper River; chartered in 1391. It is a rail junction and its industries include the production of paper, cardboard, electrical equipment, and textiles. There is a 16th-century castle. Nearby was (1933-45) the first Nazi concentration camp , which today has... Read more |
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Georg Kolbe
Georg Kolbe , 1877-1947, German sculptor. Kolbe studied painting and after meeting Rodin turned to sculpture, working in Berlin from 1903 until his death. He is best known for his impressionist figure studies, many of which are in American museums. During the Nazi regime, Kolbe turned to works of a... Read more |
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Austrian court urges return of art taken by Nazis: Jewish heirs of artist...
...up the works of art that have been...required federal museums to review their...pictures were taken by the Nazis, and the Austrian...looted by the Nazis, and as such...mandates their return. In an interview...Altmann ... |
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AUSTRIA TO RETURN ART TAKEN FROM ROTHSCHILDS BY NAZIS
...Austria will return 250 art objects taken by the Nazis from the Rothschild...restitution of art looted by the Nazis in Austria since...basis for such returns. Thousands of...Austria, part of ... |
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Austria to return Klimt works taken by the Nazis in 1938.(Arts & Entertainment)
...woman who says the Nazis stole them from her...returning valuable art objects loot ed by...the Vienna Secession art movement that for...European version of Art Nouveau. Altmann...that required federal museums to review their ... |
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Germany hankers for its heritageIt seeks the return of art taken by Soviets
...miles. Among the art was the Treasure...time as plundered art at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow just as...other of plundering art during their respective...collective guilt for Nazi crimes, Germany...the ... |
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FRANCE TO RETURN STOLEN ART PAINTINGS TAKEN FROM JEWS DURING THE WAR.(News)
...know a lot about art. But he knew...came, occupying Nazis made off with...and would soon return them. It didn...of the national museum authority...here with the (Nazi) stealing...French national museums for decades...some ... |
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MUSEUM TO RETURN NAZI-STOLEN ART
...War II when the Nazis plundered her...stole his precious art collection and...Museum decided to return "The Letter...knows of that a museum has returned a...North Carolina Museum of Art this year...painting ... |
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Judge rules British Museum cannot return Nazi-looted art
...looted by the Nazis and in the possession of the British Museum cannot be returned...moral duty to return property obtained...of a painting taken forcibly by the Nazis and now held by...Commission for Looted Art in Europe, ... |
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U.S. museum to return Nazi-plundered art to Poland
...VirginiaThe Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will return to Poland a...looted by the Nazis during World...arrived at the museum in 1952, a...purchased the art from a New York...converted to a museum. Duchess ... |
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'The Lost Museum' aids efforts to recover art taken by the Nazis
...efforts to recover art taken by the NazisBy...s National Museum of Modern Art...France's state museums."Alphonse...read "The Lost Museum," a book by...explores how the Nazis confiscated...documents of the ... |
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Museums To Return Looted Artworks; Matisse Taken by Nazis Will Go to Owner's...
The Seattle Art Museum announced...confiscated by the Nazis during World...ownership of art taken from Holocaust...Matisse came to the museum as a gift from...action, the museum is drawing a...thing." The ... |
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