19
June 2024

The Art of the Steal: Nazi Looting During WW11

Welcome to The Arts Society Basingstoke
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 - 10:45
Sherfield-on-Loddon Village Hall
Reading Road Sherfield-on-Loddon RG27 0EZ
Online Event

Hitler's obsession with art and how the Monuments Men recovered stolen art after the war.

The Nazis looted over 20% of Western Art during World War 11, confiscating art from Jewish families and emptying musuems throughout europe. This lecture will provide an overview of Nazi looting by setting the scene in Nazi Germany, discussing Hitler's obsession with art and how the Monuments Men recovered art after the war. Several landmark cases will be discussed in detail, including Gustav Klimt's celebrated, 'Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer', and the stash of over1200 art works found in the possession of the son of a notorious Nazi dealer, Cornelius Gurlitt.

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Ms Shauna Isaac

Shauna Isaac has been active in World War II art restitution for several years and has worked with families and government organisations to recover Nazi looted art. She set up the Central Registry on Looted Cultural Property and served as a member of the Working Group for the Holocaust Era Assets Conference in Prague. Shauna studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art in the UK and Smith College in the USA. She is a regular lecturer at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Her publications include articles for The Art Newspaper, The Times Literary Supplement and Art Quarterly. She is a contributor to the book Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their contribution to British Visual Culture.