The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder.
Since the late 1990s, the fate of Nazi-stolen art has become a cause célèbre. In Belonging and Betrayal, Charles Dellheim turns this story on its head by revealing how certain Jewish outsiders came to acquire so many old and modern masterpieces in the first place-and what this reveals about Jews, art, and modernity. This book tells the epic story of the fortunes and misfortunes of a small number of eminent art dealers and collectors who, against the odds, played a pivotal role in the migration of works of art from Europe to the United States and in the triumph of modern art.
Beautifully written and compellingly told, this story spans both sides of the Atlantic from the late nineteenth century to the present. It is set against the backdrop of critical transformations, among them the gradual opening of European high culture, the ambiguities of Jewish acculturation, the massive sell-off of aristocratic family art collections, the emergence of different schools of modern art, the cultural impact of World War I, and the Nazi war against the Jews.
| ISBN: | 9781684580569 |
| Publication date: | 21st September 2021 |
| Author: | Charles Dellheim, Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry |
| Publisher: | Brandeis University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 672 pages |
| Series: | The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry |
| Genres: |
European history Social and cultural history |
The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder.
Since the late 1990s, the fate of Nazi-stolen art has become a cause célèbre. In Belonging and Betrayal, Charles Dellheim turns this story on its head by revealing how certain Jewish outsiders came to acquire so many old and modern masterpieces in the first place-and what this reveals about Jews, art, and modernity. This book tells the epic story of the fortunes and misfortunes of a small number of eminent art dealers and collectors who, against the odds, played a pivotal role in the migration of works of art from Europe to the United States and in the triumph of modern art.
Beautifully written and compellingly told, this story spans both sides of the Atlantic from the late nineteenth century to the present. It is set against the backdrop of critical transformations, among them the gradual opening of European high culture, the ambiguities of Jewish acculturation, the massive sell-off of aristocratic family art collections, the emergence of different schools of modern art, the cultural impact of World War I, and the Nazi war against the Jews.
Belonging and Betrayal features in the following genres: European history, Social and cultural history
Belonging and Betrayal is available in Hardback
Belonging and Betrayal was written by Charles Dellheim, Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry and published by Brandeis University Press
Belonging and Betrayal has 672 pages
Yes it is part of The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry series
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