(JTA) — For years after World War II, the once magnificent Goerlitz Synagogue in Germany housed a family with goats and pigs. The roof of the Art Deco building was crumbling; the government came ...
File photo of a U.S. soldier viewing art stolen by the Nazi regime and stored in church at Ellingen, Germany (credit: REUTERS) The reforms would allow the country to better meet the demands of the ...
But at the end of the war, with Nazi Germany in ruins, expert teams from the Red Army seized more than two and a half million art objects, some 12 million books and miles of archives. Among them ...
Florence Wolter explores the impact left by Art Deco on Oxford and European culture. A century on, should we be looking ...
The Weimar period had seen a flourishing of German art, much of which was abstract. Hitler saw this modern art as 'degenerate' and over 6,500 works of art were removed from display across Germany.