Ww1 and American Art Oil Painting Madonna and Child

Art theft and looting occurred on a massive scale during World War II. It all started with Adolf Hitler's unsuccessful career as an artist. He was denied admission to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Withal, he idea of himself equally a connoisseur of the arts and when became Führer, he had a dream to create the European Fine art Museum in Linz, which would collect all the greatest masterpieces in the earth. The hunt for masterpieces kept in conquered countries began.

lost artworks world war, German loot stored at Schlosskirche Ellingen, Bavaria (April 1945)
German loot stored at Schlosskirche Ellingen, Bavaria (Apr 1945). Wikimedia Commons (public domain).

Luckily, most of these items were recovered by agents of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program (MFAA), affectionately referred to as the Monuments Men – yous know the movie and the volume about them? Unfortunately, many of these masterpieces are notwithstanding missing. There is an international endeavour underway to identify Nazi plunder that still remains unaccounted for, with the aim of ultimately returning the items to the rightful owners, their families or their corresponding countries. Here is the listing of the ten most important artworks that were lost or destroyed during Ii World War.

Warning: the stories written here are heart-breaking. I nearly cried when I compiled this list.

1. Raphael, Portrait of a Young Man

lost artworks world war, Raphael, Portrait Of A Young Man, 1513-1514
Raphael, Portrait Of A Young Homo, 1513-1514. Artificially colored, whereabouts unknown since 1945, formerly exhibited at The Princes Czartoryski Museum, Krakow, Poland.

Information technology'due south Poland's most famous fine art loss from WWII. Portrait of a Swain was taken from the Czartoryski family collection in Krakow to be placed in Hitler's Führer museum in 1939. Information technology went missing at the end of the war, but every couple of months unverified rumors advise information technology was found somewhere – lately in a Swiss bank vault.

2. Vincent van Gogh, Painter on His Way to Work

lost artworks world war Vincent van Gogh, Painter on His Way to Work, 1886, destroyed
Vincent van Gogh, Painter on His Way to Work, 1888. Wikimedia Commons (public domain).

This Van Gogh was stolen by the Nazis and and then lost in fire under an Allied bomb assail on the town of Magdeburg, Germany. Luckily, the lost piece of work has survived through print reproductions.

three. Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers

lost artworks world war, Gustave Courbet, the-stonebreakers
Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849. Wikimedia Commons (public domain).

The Stone Breakers were destroyed during World State of war II, along with 154 other pictures, when a transport vehicle moving the pictures to the castle of Königstein, near Dresden, was bombed by Allied forces in February 1945.

iv. Gustav Klimt, Philosophy

lost artworks world war, Gustav Klimt, Philosophy, ceiling panel for the Great Hall of Vienna University, 1899-1907, Vienna, Austria.
Gustav Klimt, Philosophy, ceiling console for the Great Hall of Vienna University, 1899-1907, Vienna, Austria. Gustav Klimt.

Upon presenting his paintings commissioned by the University of Vienna entitled Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence, Gustav Klimt came under attack for "pornography" and "perverted excess" in the paintings. In the end, none of the paintings would become on display at the University. In the very very end, in May 1945 all three paintings were destroyed by retreating SS forces.

In 1911 Medicine and Jurisprudence were bought past Klimt's friend and boyfriend creative person, Koloman Moser.Medicine eventually came into the possession of a Jewish family unit, and in 1938 the painting was seized by Deutschland. In 1943, after a last exhibition, they were moved to Schloss Immendorf, a castle in Lower Austria, for protection. In May 1945 the paintings were destroyed every bit retreating German SS forces prepare fire to the castle to prevent it from falling into enemy easily. All that remains at present are preparatory sketches and a few photographs. Only one photograph remains of the complete painting of Medicine, taken simply before it was destroyed.

5.Andreas Schlüter, The Amber Room

Hand-coloured photograph of the original Amber Room, 1931
Paw-colored photograph of the original Bister Room, 1931. Wikimedia Commons (public domain).

The Amber Room is a earth-famous chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors, located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo almost Saint Petersburg. Originally constructed in the 18th century in Prussia, the Amber Room disappeared during World War Ii and was recreated in 2003.

The Amber Room was looted during World State of war II by Army Group Due north of Nazi Deutschland and brought to Königsberg for reconstruction and display. Its current whereabouts remain a mystery.

half dozen.Giovanni Bellini, Madonna with Kid

Bellini's Madonna and Child (Photo Courtesy of Art Loss Register)It is said that his masterpiece was moved from a Berlin museum to a Berlin-Friedrichshain flak tower which was located in an surface area nether Russian control in the early on 1940s. However, nigh of the objects in that said tower were either stolen or believed to be destroyed, including this particular Giovanni Bellini piece. Unfortunately nosotros cannot provide a reproduction of this painting…

seven.Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Trude Steiner

lost artworks world war, Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Trude Steiner, 1900
Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Trude Steiner, 1900. Wikimedia Commons (public domain).

This is a portrait of the daughter of Viennese collector Jenny Steiner. It was taken by the Nazis afterward Steiner's escape from Austria in 1938. It was consequently sold to an unknown person in 1941 and was never seen since then.

viii. Rembrandt van Rijn, An Affections with Titus' Features

lost artworks world war, Rembrandt van Rijn, An Angel with Titus' Features
Rembrandt van Rijn, An Angel with Titus' Features, 1650s. Wikimedia Commons (public domain).

This masterpiece was stored in a French countryside chateau earlier the Nazis took it with them to Paris in 1943. There, it was fix aside to exist installed in Hitler's museum along with 332 other artworks. 162 of those pieces were found but no leads for this ane.

9.Canaletto, Piazza Santa Margherita

lost artworks world war, Canaletto, Piazza Santa Margherita
Canaletto, Piazza Santa Margherita. Pinterest.

This landscape painting past Canaletto was part of Jacques Goudstikker's private collection which the Nazis seized and purged after he fled to holland in 1940. Some of the artworks from that collection had been returned to Goudstikker'due south heir, art investigators are still looking for this one.

10.Edgar Degas, V Dancing Women (Ballerinas)

lost artworks world war, Edgar Degas, Five Dancing Women (Ballerinas)
Edgar Degas, 5 Dancing Women (Ballerinas). Time.

The Nazis got hold of this pastel work by Edgard Degas when they took Baron Mór Lipót Herzog's collection, a Jewish-Hungarian art collector. Baron Herzog's heirs have filed a lawsuit against Republic of hungary which seeks the return of his collection, though, this work seems to be lost.

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Source: https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/10-important-masterpieces-lost-ii-world-war/

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