This new volume tells the story of some of the paintings rescued by
the the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives (MFAA) organization, the
so-called "Monuments Men." In December 1945, 202 paintings, found
in German salt mines 2,100 feet underground, where they had been
hidden to escape the allied bombing of Berlin, were brought to the
United States "for safe keeping" by the Department of the Army.
They were exhibited in 1948 at the National Gallery of Art,
Washington DC, before some of them were sent on a whistle-stop tour
of 13 US cities, despite furious opposition from museum directors,
Gallery staff, the public, government officials, and a resolution
from 98 leading art authorities demanding the immediate return of
the works to Germany. All the paintings, examples of Flemish,
Dutch, German, French, English, and Italian Schools, were from
museums in Berlin, and had been found in April 1945, along with 100
tons of Reichsbank gold, by the special team of art historians and
experts, seconded in the US army, and charged with locating and
restituting works of art looted by the Nazis. This book is the
first to consider the paintings themselves; it features 22 artworks
that were in the original NGA exhibition, including four paintings
on loan from Berlin, augmented by others from Cincinnati Art
Museum, National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Getty Museum,
Miami University (Oxford, OH), and the Taft Museum.
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