By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com In November 1945 Bluffton resident Betty Steinman experienced a brush with history like no other person in Bluffton. It is one of several interesting brushes with history that Bluffton residents reported in The Bluffton News. Some of those account follow Betty’s. Each of the account in this feature are from the mid-1940s. ` Betty, whose
By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com In November 1945 Bluffton resident Betty Steinman experienced a brush with history like no other person in Bluffton. It is one of several interesting brushes with history that Bluffton residents reported in The Bluffton News. Some of those accounts follow Betty’s. The accounts in this feature are from the mid-1940s. Betty, whose nephew
tells the story of how and why some of the worldâs most iconic European paintings left Germany immediately after World War II and toured the United States in what became the first blockbuster art exhibition of our time. Walter Farmer, Cincinnatiâs own âMonuments Man,â played a central role in this pivotal episode in the history of art and war.
The exhibition can only be seen at the Cincinnati Art Museum from July 9âOct. 3, 2021.
During the final years of World War II, Allied forces endeavored to protect artworks, archives and monuments of historical and cultural significance across Europe, and they worked to return works looted by the Nazis to their rightful owners in the postwar period.