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...Held at Schloss Leopoldskron just outside the Austrian city of Salzburg, the Seminar has about 100 European graduate students and 10 faculty members each summer and offers courses in American government, history, economics, sociology, anthropology, literature, music...
...your June 6 issue you describe the strange fate of the Schloss collection, which was seized by the Nazis and which in part is now being sold at auction in Paris...
When Adolphe Schloss got rich in the export business in Paris, he started buying Dutch and Flemish old masters. By the time he died in 1910 he had one of the world's largest and finest private collections of them. They hung in the gallery of his mansion on the Avenue Henri Martin until the outbreak of World War II, when they were stuffed into crates and spirited away to the chateau of a friend at Tulle, in the south of France...
Last week part of the Schloss collection was on the move again. It was up for auction at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris, in the biggest art sale held in Europe since the war. Nearly an hour before the auctioning began, every little gilt chair in the great, red-velvet-draped gallery had been occupied. Bearded boulevardiers and ladies in fox furs vied for seats with dapper, sharp-eyed dealers from, far & near...
...prices were right: the market in Dutch and Flemish old masters has stayed fairly steady for the last 20 years. But something was missing. Only 70 paintings, less than half of the once-great Schloss collection, had been recovered. The best of the collection, more than 100 canvases including a Frans Hals, a Pieter Bruegel and four Rembrandts were still missing...