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035 $a(NNC)15523766
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020 $a9781911282631$qhardback
020 $a1911282638$qhardback
050 4 $aND450$b.B45 2020
049 $aHULL
100 1 $aBell, Peter Jonathan,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe Berlin masterpieces in America :$bpaintings, politics, and the Monuments Men /$cPeter Jonathan Bell and Kristi A. Nelson ; with contributions by Tanja Bernsau, Kathryn Griffith, Neville Rowley, and Nancy Yeide.
264 1 $aCincinnati :$bCincinnati Art Museum ;$aLewes, UK :$bin association with D Giles Limited,$c2020.
300 $a224 pages :$billustrations (chiefly color) ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"This catalog accompanies the exhibition Paintings, Politics, and the Monuments Men: The Berlin Masterpieces in America on display at Cincinnati Art Museum, June 26, 2020-September 6, 2020"--Colophon.
504 $aIncludes bibliography (pages 215-219) and index.
505 0 $aSold and stolen : the use and abuse of paintings in Nazi Germany and during World War II / Peter Jonathan Bell -- Map : the movements of the "202" -- Walter Farmer and the Central Collecting Point in Wiesbaden / Tanja Bernsau -- Making art history : the masterpieces' postwar tour / Kristi A. Nelson -- The road (back) to Berlin : the endless journey of the "202" / Neville Rowley -- Walter Ings Farmer : memories of a life -- What's past is prologue : provenance research in American museums / Nancy Yeide -- Catalogue -- Appendix : paintings from the Berlin museums.
520 $aThis exhibition catalogue focuses on the transfer of 202 paintings from the Berlin State Museums-including many of the greatest 15th to 18th-century works in the Gemäldegalerie-to the United States in the aftermath of World War II. In November 1945, the U.S. military government in Germany ordered that "at least 200 German works of art of greatest importance" be sent to Washington for safekeeping. After two years in storage, they were exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., and in thirteen other cities across the country in 1948-49, before returning to Germany. The essays in the catalogue explore the controversy that surrounded this transfer of patrimony, as well as the reception of the paintings themselves in the United States. At the heart of the book is Walter I. Farmer, who served in the US Army as a Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives officer-a 'Monuments Man'-and as Director of the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point (1945-46), which housed thousands of artworks recovered at the end of the war. Farmer is responsible for the Wiesbaden Manifesto, which protested the shipment of paintings to the United States and was signed by two-thirds of the Monuments officers active in Europe. Following the war, he was a resident of Cincinnati and stalwart supporter of the arts in the region for almost fifty years.
650 0 $aPainting, European$vExhibitions.
611 20 $aMasterpieces from the Berlin Museums (Exhibition)$d(1948-1949 :$cUnited States)
650 0 $aTraveling exhibitions$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aCultural property$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aCultural property$xRepatriation.
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650 7 $aPainting, European.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01050808
610 27 $aAlliierte Streitkräfte$bAlliiertes Oberkommando$bMonuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section$2gnd$0(DE-588)7726366-2
610 27 $aGemäldegalerie$gBerlin$2gnd$0(DE-588)806975-X
650 7 $aMalerei$2gnd$0(DE-588)4037220-0
650 7 $aRückerstattung$2gnd$0(DE-588)4178639-7
650 7 $aWanderausstellung$2gnd$0(DE-588)4671740-7
610 27 $aUniversity of South Alabama$2gnd$0(DE-588)5241550-8
648 7 $a1900-1999$2fast
655 7 $aExhibition catalogs.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01424028
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
700 1 $aNelson, Kristi$q(Kristi A.),$eauthor.
710 2 $aCincinnati Art Museum,$eorganizer,$ehost institution.
852 00 $bfaxlc$hND450$i.B45 2020g