Raphael’s Portrait of a Young Man that was looted by the Nazis from the Czartoryski Museum is regarded by many historians as the most important painting missing since World War II. Please check your inbox to activate your subscription Thank you! Goering Was A Man of Expensive Pursuits Portrait of a Young Man by Raphael, 1514, via Web Gallery of Art Its chief purpose was the cultural appropriation of property – innumerable works of art were either irretrievably lost or burnt in public, though the Allies were able to return many of these pieces to their rightful owners. The ERR (as it was abbreviated in German) operated in much of Western Europe, Poland, and the Baltic States. In 1940, under the aegis of Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering, the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce was formed, headed by Alfred Rosenberg, a chief ideologue of the Nazi Party.Īn American soldier at Hermann Goering’s hidden cave at Konigsee, admiring a 15th century statue of Eve, one of the pieces recovered by the Allied forces in 1945, via The New Yorker Degenerate art was the term used by the Nazis to describe many artworks created by modern artists. He viciously attacked modern art and its dominant trends of the time – Cubism, Dadaism and Futurism, in his book Mein Kampf.
It is known that Hitler himself was denied admission to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts early in his life, but saw himself as a connoisseur of the arts. Hermann Goering – a Nazi Plunder? Hermann Goering Division soldiers posing with Panini’s ‘Coffee House of Quirinale’ outside the Palazzo Venezia, 1944, via Wikipedia
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