Goering's Man In Paris The Story Of A Nazi Art Plunderer And His World

Author: Jonathan Petropoulos

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  • : Yale University Press
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  • : December 2020
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A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world


 


"A well-rounded portrait of a complex figure. . . . Engrossing."--Publishers Weekly


 


"With meticulous precision Jonathan uncovers the inner workings of the Nazi looting machine, exposing a network that lasted well into the 1960s. Indeed G ring's Man still casts a long shadow."--Simon Goodman, author of The Orpheus Clock


 


Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann G ring to Hitler's art looting agency in Paris, he went on to help supervise the systematic theft and distribution of more than thirty thousand artworks, taken largely from French Jews, and to assist G ring in amassing an enormous private art collection. By the 1950s Lohse was officially denazified but was back in the art dealing world, offering masterpieces of dubious origin to American museums. After his death, dozens of paintings by Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro, among others, were found in his Zurich bank vault and adorning the walls of his Munich home. Jonathan Petropoulos spent nearly a decade interviewing Lohse and continues to serve as an expert witness for Holocaust restitution cases. Here he tells the story of Lohse's life, offering a critical examination of the postwar art world.