02498cam a2200349 i 4500 on1230528211 OCoLC ta 210511s2021 ctuaf e b 001 0beng d 2020939645 9780300251920 (hbk.) 0300251920 (OCoLC)1230528211 (OCoLC)1146576778 N8795.5.L64 P48 2021 Petropoulos, Jonathan. Göring's man in Paris : the story of a Nazi art plunderer and his world / Jonathan Petropoulos. Goering's man in Paris : the story of a Nazi art plunderer and his world Story of a Nazi art plunderer and his world New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021 xiv, 408 p., 30 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. Prologue : Kaffee und Kuchen with Bruno -- Introduction -- Art historian, art dealer, member of the SS -- The "King of Paris" -- Darker hues and war's end -- Called to account -- The amnesia years -- Lohse in North America -- War stories, war secrets -- Restitution -- Bruno Lohse and the Wildensteins -- Epilogue : On the trail of the Nazi plunderers. Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler's art looting agency in Paris, he went on to help supervise the systematic theft and distribution of more than thirty thousand artworks, taken largely from French Jews, and to assist Göring in amassing an enormous private art collection. By the 1950s Lohse was officially denazified but was back in the art dealing world, offering masterpieces of dubious origin to American museums. After his death, dozens of paintings by Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro, among others, were found in his Zurich bank vault and adorning the walls of his Munich home. Jonathan Petropoulos spent nearly a decade interviewing Lohse and continues to serve as an expert witness for Holocaust restitution cases. Here he tells the story of Lohse's life, offering a critical examination of the postwar art world.-- Lohse, Bruno, 1911-2007. Art dealers Germany Biography. Art thefts. Art Corrupt practices. World War, 1939-1945 Confiscations and contributions France Paris. World War, 1939-1945 Destruction and pillage. Art treasures in war. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 N8795.5.L64 P48 2021 PNLIB21061853 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 2040 2040