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A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world
 
“[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators connected to Nazi looting. . . . What emerges from Petropoulos’s research is a portrait of a charismatic and nefarious figure who tainted everyone he touched.”—Nina Siegal, New York Times
 
“Readers of art history and WWII biographies will appreciate this engrossing deep dive into one of the world’s most prolific art looters.”—Publishers Weekly
 
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.

ISBN-13: 9780300274264

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Yale University Press

Publication Date: 01-09-2024

Pages: 456

Product Dimensions: 9.25h x 6.13w x 1.19d

Jonathan Petropoulos is the John V. Croul Professor of European History at Claremont McKenna College. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow at the Royal Historical Society.

Table of Contents

Dramatis Personae xi

Prologue: Kaffee und Kitchen with Bruno 1

Introduction 12

1 Art Historian, Art Dealer, Member of the SS (1911-41) 23

2 The "King of Paris" (1941-43) 33

3 Darker Hues and War's End (1943-45) 83

4 Called to Account (1945-50) 107

5 The Amnesia Years 134

6 Lohse in North America 168

7 War Stories, War Secrets 191

8 Restitution 211

9 Bruno Lohse and the Wildensteins 237

Epilogue: On the Trail of the Nazi Plunderers 276

Appendix: Artworks in the Possession of Dr. Bruno Lohse and the Schbnart Anstalt 297

Acknowledgments 299

List of Abbreviations 303

Notes 305

For Further Reading 391

Index 393

Illustration gallery follows-page 190