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...Israel Museum also offers a sampling of 1,200 unclaimed items that are currently held by Israelis until the true heirs of Holocaust victims are found. "Looking for Owners" was put together with help from French museum authorities, whose contributions to the Jerusalem show came from their collection of 2,000 unclaimed pieces. Claims for these paintings must be registered with the French government as the Israeli parliament recently passed a resolution giving any artwork in a traveling exhibition immunity from seizure. Since the exhibitions opened on Feb. 18, no serious claimant has yet appeared for any of the French...
...book's absence of a singular, cohesive revelation won't stop you from enjoying its vignettes of Indian traffic or the cozy London pub, however. Weiner's travel writing delivers nourishing moments of humor and lucidity. (Travel, he reminds us, comes from the French word travail, or work, a thing that was for centuries relegated to unlucky pilgrims, nomads and soldiers who were forced to wander.) Sardonic observation is his particular gift. In the capital of Moldova - among the least happy places in the world according to the WDH - he walks past a couple of cops who "like all Moldovan...
...private collections of top Nazis. Choice pieces were earmarked for the grand Führermuseum, which Adolf Hitler planned but never built in Linz, Austria, near his birthplace. At night, Valland would record the details at home in secret diaries, and warn her comrades in the French Resistance so that Allied bombers would spare these treasure-laden trains bound for Germany...
...Hitler's boundlessly rapacious second in command, Hermann Goering. But greed alone hardly explains the Nazis' frenzied grasp for Jewish-owned art, says curator Steinberg: "Taking an art collection was a way of stripping the Jew of what made him a citizen in the world." Out of gratitude for French help in restoring their stolen art, the Rothschilds donated the de Hooch painting to the Louvre in 1974, and gave the Israel Museum several family portraits, which also appear in the show...
...Berlin Wall. One of Delacroix's own favorites, Portrait of a Young Man, in which he portrays a pale aesthete wearing a blue cap, was found after a former German soldier on his deathbed confessed to his priest that he possessed the missing painting. The priest informed the French embassy in Berlin, which secured the painting's return to France...