Lost lives, lost art
Subtitle: Jewish collectors, Nazi art theft, and the quest for justice
By: Melissa Müller, Monika Tatzkow ; with contributions from Thomas Blubacher and Gunnar Schnabel : foreword by Ronald S. Lauder
Contributors: Tatzkow, Monika
Edition: English-language ed.
Publisher: Vendome Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780865652637
Subjects: Art; Jews; Jewish property; Intellectual life; Confiscations and contributions; World War, 1939-1945; Art thefts; Collectors and collecting; History
Other titles: Jewish collectors, Nazi art theft, and the quest for justice
Work titles: Verlorene Bilder, Verlorene Leben
Description: The legendary names include Rothschild, Mendelssohn, Bloch-Bauer{u2014}distinguished bankers, industrialists, diplomats, and art collectors. Their diverse taste ranged from manuscripts and musical instrushy;ments to paintings by Old Masters and the avant-garde. But their stigma as Jews in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe doomed them to exile or death in Hitler{u2019}s concentration camps. Here, after years of meticulous research, Melissa Müller (Anne Frank: The Biography) and Monika Tatzkow (Nazi Looted Art) present the tragic, compelling stories of 15 Jewish collectors, the dispersal of their extraordinary collections through forced sale and/or confiscation, and the ongoing efforts of their heirs to recover their inheritance. For every victory in the effort to return these works to their rightful heirs, there are daunting defeats and long court battles. This real-life legal thriller follows works by Rembrandt, Klimt, Pissarro, Kandinsky, and others.
Notes: Originally published: Verlorene Bilder, Verlorene Leben. München : Elisabeth Sandmann Verlag GmbH, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lilly and Claude Cassirer; title: Paul Westheim; title: Alfred and Tekla Hess, Hans Hess; title: Leo Bendel; title: Eleonora and Francesco von Mendelssohn; title: Walter Westfeld; title: Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers; title: Max Silberberg; title: Max Steinthal; title: Oscar Huldschinsky and Ann Sommer; title: Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer; title: Karl Grünwald; title: Alma Mahler-Werfel; title: Alphonse Mayer and Louis Nathaniel von Rothschild; title: Jacques Goudstikker; title: Nazi-looted art.