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THE NAZIS’ CAMPAIGN AGAINST “DEGENERATE” ART AND QUESTIONS OF RESTITUTION On July 18, 1937, the Degenerate Art Exhibition opened in Munich. It was a triumphant platform for Adolf Hitler who was working to purge modern art and its ‘ruinous and fatal’ influences from German society and he had a full gallery dedicated to mocking and berating the art and artists who were responsible. In the two years that followed, over 23,000 artworks were removed from German state collections by the regime, many of which were sold to American collectors and institutions. After the war, the U.S. government made a controversial decision not to return the looted art to German museums. As is evident from the current discourse around the subject, this policy remains both controversial and relevant today. In this lecture, world-renowned author and leading expert Jonathan Petropoulos will tell the story of the Nazis’ theft of European art and provide insights about the current restitution landscape. The lecture will be immediately followed by a book signing. PROGRAM INFO DATE: Thursday, April 20, 2023 TIME: 7:00 p.m. LOCATION: Jewish Museum Milwaukee COST: Museum Members $8 | Nonmembers $15 BUNDLE AND SAVE: Museum Members $20 | Nonmembers $35 Register Here BUY THE BOOK - GÖRING’S MAN IN PARIS GÖRING’S MAN IN PARIS: THE STORY OF A NAZI ART PLUNDERER AND HIS WORLD $37.50 by Jonathan Petropoulos (Author) 2021 Hardcover A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world 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. Buy Now PROGRAM SPONSORS Linda and Eli Frank Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center (HERC) ABOUT JONATHAN PETROPOULOS Jonathan Petropoulos is the John V. Croul Professor of European History at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California. Previously, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University (1990), where he began working on the subject of Nazi art looting and restitution in 1983. He is the author of Art as Politics in the Third Reich (1996); The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany (2000); Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (2006); Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany (2014); and Göring’s Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and his World (2021), and has helped edit a number of other volumes. From 1998 to 2000, Dr. Petropoulos served as Research Director for Art and Cultural Property on the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, where he helped draft the report, Restitution and Plunder: The U.S. and Holocaust Victims’ Assets (2001). Jonathan Petropoulos has served as an expert witness in a number of cases where Holocaust victims have tried to recover lost artworks. This includes Austria v. Altmann, which involved six paintings by Gustav Klimt claimed by Maria Altmann and other family members (five were returned). He is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. IMAGE DETAILS Works of confiscated art—including those by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Vincent van Gogh—line the walls of the Schloss Niederschoenhausen storage depot. The Nazi regime confiscated the works as “degenerate” art. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of bpk-Bildagentur. UPCOMING EVENTS * CENSOR, CANCEL, CONDEMN: ON THE FRONT LINES OF THE BOOK BAN WARS * 4/14 MEMBERSHIP SWAP DAY * RACE, DEGENERACY AND EUGENICS IN THE LATE 19TH/ EARLY 20TH CENTURIES GET IN TOUCH 1360 N Prospect Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53202 (414) 390-5730 Email Us GET UPDATES FROM THE MUSEUM First Name(Required) Last Name(Required) Email Address(Required) Δ HOURS OF OPERATION Mon - Thurs 10AM - 5PM Friday 10AM - 3PM Saturday CLOSED Sunday 12PM - 4PM FOLLOW US! 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