Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turbulent post-World War I Germany, two German soldiers sliced three paintings from their frames in the Grand Ducal Museum of Weimar. Last week the paintings were up on walls again, this time in Washington's National Gallery. On view were a Rembrandt 1643 self-portrait (worth upwards of $750,000), a Gérard ter Borch, one of Rembrandt's contemporaries, and a work by the 18th century German, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. Their strange odyssey bespeaks of both the awe and the ignorance that surround great art works. It also suggests that masterpieces, like people...
...dozen years after the 1922 theft, a German-born plumber named Leo Ernst, now 59, on a visit from Dayton, Ohio, to New York, went aboard a German steamship-he believes it was the Hamburg. One of the sailors told Ernst that he had some art works to sell, claimed they would be confiscated on his return to Germany, and asked $10,000 for them. Ernst offered far less, but left with the oils rolled up under...
...York. Art dealers there declared the badly cracked canvases to be worthless fakes or copies. But by searching in the New York Public Library, the Ernsts found the clue they needed, a newspaper account of the 1922 theft. The facts jibed. And there was a reward offered by the German authorities...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art. The paintings were declared genuine, but technically they were enemy property, and the U.S. promptly impounded them. In fact, they were nearly sold at auction until the State Department intervened, pointing out that as the property of a public museum, they belonged to the German people. The works were then deposited in the National Gallery-in ground floor vaults...
...echoes, West German critics are unanimously agreed that Janssen, 37, has a substance of his own. "He distills from tradition," said Süddeutsche Zeitung. He also distills from experience. The illegitimate son of a seamstress, Janssen spent his adolescence in an SS training academy, became an alcoholic by the age of 22, ran a liquor parlor hard by Hamburg's reeking Reeperbahn, served seven months in jail in 1951-52 for stabbing his fiancée in the abdomen in a fit of jealous rage...