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...recent years, Commencement speakers haveincluded Vice President Al G '69; former chair ofthe Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin L. Powell; GroHarlem Brundtland, prime minister of Norway;former Soviet Foreign Minister EduardShevardnadze; German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; andPakistani Prime Minister Benazier Bhutto
Understandably, few German experts have much sympathy with this attitude, though most realize that direct demands for restitution will simply be rejected. "It was by no means necessary to transport the artworks to the Soviet Union for conservation," protests Werner Schmidt, general director of the Dresden State Art Collections and chairman of the joint Russo-German commission deliberating on the mutual return of art loot. In 1955, when the Russians returned paintings to the Dresden Gallery (in communist East Germany), they made a huge, face- saving fuss over the allegedly terrible state in which these treasures had been found...
...belonged, in fact, to a German museum--the Kunsthalle in Bremen--and was part of a group of some 1,700 drawings, 50 paintings and 3,000 prints that had been squirreled away for safety in Schloss Karnzow. Baldin made a careful inventory of the drawings he had taken and arranged for their transfer to his future place of work, the Shusev State Scientific Research Museum of Architecture in Moscow. And there they remained, unseen, under wraps, for 45 years. When Baldin became director of the museum in 1963, he began to petition first Leonid Brezhnev and then Mikhail Gorbachev...
Baldin's trove--whose existence was first officially revealed in 1990 and exhibited in St. Petersburg in 1993--is among the mass of art stolen from German collections that has only recently come to light in Russia. Some of the most celebrated of these works, a collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, will go on display this week at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. The exhibit comes on the heels of another display of looted art mounted a few weeks ago by the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. These exhibitions have renewed an emotional, historically charged debate over...
...Russian museums have made an essential first step in revealing what their government had previously concealed. But is it a step toward restitution? Russia signed agreements with Germany in 1990 and again in 1992 to return "unlawfully removed cultural property." But Russian negotiators now claim that the seizure of German artworks may not have been "unlawful." They point out that it was a response to Germany's attempt at cultural genocide. The Versailles Treaty, they argue, contained formal provisions for reparations from Germany to Belgium, to compensate for the enormous destruction wreaked by the Kaiser's troops on the country...