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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
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| "Place de la Concorde", by Edgar Degas was believed to have been destroyed during World War II until it showed up in 1996 in a display at the Hermitage Museum in which country? | Steal This Quiz!
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Russia. In 1996, "Place de la Concorde", was put on display in the famous Russian Hermitage Museum. While it took a bit of negotiation, the museum finally acknowledged that provenance of the painting could not be ascertained. It should be noted that many of the world's most famous museums have been known to display artwork that is believed to have been stolen from the rightful owners by the Third Reich. Some has never been reclaimed as the families who owned them had been slaughtered, and other artwork cannot be proven to have been stolen or the rightful owners are unable to prove ownership.
| Who is the author of "The Rape of Europa" a book and subsequent 2006 movie on the plunder of artwork by the Third Reich? | Steal This Quiz!
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Lynn H. Nicholas. Lynn H. Nicholas wrote" The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War" in 1994. That same year, the book won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the general non-fiction category. In 2006, the book was made into a documentary movie where upon it was named by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to the shortlist as a nominee for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It deals with the philosophically intriguing questions that arise as to the ownership of these lost artworks as they are slowly being discovered in museums, estate sales, garage sales and private collections.
| Which highly venerated Renaissance sculptor and painter created the marble statue "Madonna of Bruges", which was smuggled out of Belgium by German soldiers in 1944? | Steal This Quiz!
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Michelangelo. The "Madonna of Bruges" was one of Michelangelo's many masterpieces. This beautiful marble statue depicts the Madonna and child. Retreating German soldiers confiscated the sculpture and smuggled it out of the country enveloped in bed mattresses. It was recovered undamaged in 1948 and moved to the Church of Our Lady in Bruges, Belgium, where it can be viewed by the public behind bullet proof class.
| Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" was confiscated from the Städtische Galerie in Frankfurt by the Third Reich's Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and then sold to an art dealer by which member of Hitler's inner circle? | Steal This Quiz!
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Hermann Göring. Hermann Göring saved this masterpiece when he secretly sold it to an Amsterdam art dealer. Germany's Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda had declared the painting to be 'degenerate art' and had intended to destroy the painting. It is believed to be in the private collection of Ryoei Saito, the honorary chairman of Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Company. Göring is thought to have amassed hundreds, if not thousands, of works of art for a personal collection. Many were recovered.
| What kind of unusual wood was used for the statues contained in "The Altarpiece of Veit Stoss" was the largest Gothic altarpiece when it was stolen from Poland, in 1941? | Steal This Quiz!
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Lime wood. "The Altarpiece of Veit Stoss", also known St. Mary's Altar, is a multiple panel altarpiece carved by Bavarian sculptor Veit Stoss between 1477 and 1489. Different kinds of wood were used for different parts of this triptych. The background is constructed of larch wood, the 12ft. tall individual sculptures were each carved from a tree trunk of lime wood and oak wood was used for other decorative parts. This work of art was recovered in 1946 after being hidden by the Nazi's in the basement of the Nuremberg Castle. It was turned back over to the Polish people who consider it a national treasure. Hitler claimed because the artist was born in Nuremberg, that this piece of art belonged to Germany despite the fact it had been paid for by the private citizens of Krakow, Poland for their own church.
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