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The Faustian Bargain - The Art World in Nazi Germany (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,967
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The Faustian Bargain - The Art World in Nazi Germany (Hardcover): Jonathan Petropoulos

The Faustian Bargain - The Art World in Nazi Germany (Hardcover)

Jonathan Petropoulos

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Nazi art looting has been the subject of enormous international attention in recent years, and the subject of two history bestsellers, Hector Feliciano's The Lost Museum and Lynn Nicholas's The Rape of Europa. But such books leave us wondering: What made thoughtful, educated, artistic men and women decide to put their talents in the service of a brutal and inhuman regime? This question is the starting point for The Faustian Bargain, Jonathan Petropoulos's study of five key figure in the art world of Nazi Germany.

Petropoulos follows the careers of these prominent individuals that like Faust, that German archetypechose to pursue artistic ends through collaboration with diabolical forces. Readers meet Ernst Buchner, the distinguished museum director and expert on Old Master paintings who "repatriated" Van Eyck's Ghent altarpiece to Germany, and Karl Haberstock, an art dealer who filled German museums with works bought virtually at gunpoint from Jewish collectors. Robert Scholz, an art critic in the Third Reich, became an officer in the chief art looting unit in France and Kajetan Muhlmanna leading art historianheaded looting agencies in Poland and the Netherlands. Finally, there is Arno Breker, a gifted artist who exchanged his modernist style for monumental realism and became Hitler's favorite sculptor. If it is striking that these educated men became part of the Nazi machine, it is equally is striking that most of them lived comfortably after the war.

Based on previously unreleased information and recently declassified documents, The Faustian Bargain is a gripping read about the art world during this period, and a fascinating examination of the intense relationship between culture and politics in the Third Reich.

General

Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2002
First published: March 2000
Authors: Jonathan Petropoulos (Associate Professor of History)
Dimensions: 236 x 158 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-512964-9
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Forgery, falsification & theft of artworks
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Battles & campaigns
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Second World War
LSN: 0-19-512964-4
Barcode: 9780195129649

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