rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Faustian bargain
    sub title: the art world in Nazi Germany
  name:
    name part: Petropoulos, Jonathan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    place:
      place term: XA-GB
    place:
      place term: XD-US
    place:
      place term: XA-DK
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 395 S. Ill. 25 cm
  abstract: Nazi art looting has been the subject of enormous international attention in recent years, and the topic of two history bestsellers, Hector Feliciano's The Lost Museum and Lynn Nicholas's The Rape of Europa. But such books leave us wondering: What made thoughtful, educated, artistic men and women decide to put their talents in the service of a brutal and inhuman regime? This question is the starting point for The Faustian Bargain, Jonathan Petropoulos's study of the key figures in the art world of Nazi Germany. Petropoulos follows the careers of these prominent individuals who like Faust, that German archetype, chose to pursue artistic ends through collaboration with diabolical forces. Readers meet Ernst Buchner, the distinguished museum director and expert on Old Master paintings who "repatriated" the Van Eyck brothers' Ghent altarpiece to Germany, and Karl Haberstock, an art dealer who filled German museums with works bought virtually at gunpoint from Jewish collectors. Robert Scholz, the leading art critic in the Third Reich, who became an officer in the chief art looting unit in France and Kajetan Muhlmann-and a leading art historian-was probably the single most prolific art plunderer in the war (and arguably in history). Finally, there is Arno Breker, a gifted artist who exchanged his modernist style for monumental realism and became Hitler's favorite sculptor. If it is striking that these educated men became part of the Nazi machine, it is more remarkable that most of them rehabilitated their careers and lived comfortably after the war. Petropoulos has discovered a network of these rehabilitated experts that flourished in the postwar period, and he argues that this is a key to the tens of thousands of looted artworks that are still "missing" today. Based on previously unreleased information and recently declassified documents, The Faustian Bargain is a gripping read about the art world during this period, and a fascinating examination of the intense relationsh…
  table of contents: Art museum directors -- Art dealers -- Art journalists -- Art historians -- Artists.
  note: Jonathan Petropoulos
  note: Bibliogr. S. 281 - 376
  subject:
    topic: National socialism and art
  subject:
    topic: Art and state
    geographic: Germany
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Art treasures in war
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    topic: Nazis
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Art collections
  subject:
    topic: Art
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Cultural policy
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: N6868.5.N37
  classification: 709/.43/09043
  classification: LK 10350
  classification: LH 60230
  classification: 20.30
  classification: 02.15
  identifier: 0195129644
  identifier: 99033372
  identifier: http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c1m4-aa
  identifier: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/99033372-b.html
  identifier: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0605/99033372-d.html
  related item:
    location:
      url: http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c1m4-aa
  related item:
    location:
      url: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/99033372-b.html
  related item:
    location:
      url: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0605/99033372-d.html
  record info:
    record content source: DE-627
    record creation date: 990721
    record change date: 20220927145057.0
    record identifier: 300131291
    language of cataloging:
      language term: ger