Feliciano reveals the story of how France's most magnificent private art collections were systematically looted by the Nazis, and traces what became of the paintings.
During the occupation of France, the Nazis confiscated nearly 100,000 art works from more than 200 collectors, transporting most of the spoils to Germany. THE LOST MUSEUM tells the true story of the pillage of the most valuable of these collections, which belonged to five renown…
''Drawing on recently declassified government archives and other primary sources, a journalist describes how the Nazis systematically looted some of France's most important private art collections, tracing the fate of the art and revealing the location of stolen works never retu…
Describes how the Nazis systematically looted some of France's most important private art collections, tracing the fate of the art and revealing the location of stolen works never returned to their owners.
Describes how the Nazis systematically looted some of France's most important private art collections, tracing the fate of the art and revealing the location of stolen works never returned to their owners.
Between 1939 and 1944, as the Nazis overran Europe, they were also quietly conducting another type of pillage. The Lost Museum tells the story of the Jewish art collectors and gallery owners in France who were stripped of rare works by artists such as Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas, …