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Obituary: Richard Barancik, Monuments Man who helped to rescue artworks looted by the Nazis

Richard Barancik, who has died aged 98, was the last of the so-called Monuments Men who set out to safeguard some of Europe’s most valuable pieces of western culture plundered by the Nazis during World War II, their exploits detailed by Robert Edsel in his 2009 book, The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, which was turned into a 2014 film directed by and starring George Clooney.

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Richard Barancik, Monuments Man who helped to rescue artworks looted by the Nazis – obituary

‘He didn’t feel like a hero,’ said his daughter, but he and his colleagues tracked down between four and five million objects

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In memoriam: Richard Barancik, last of the Monuments Men

In memoriam: Richard Barancik, last of the Monuments Men
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In memoriam: Richard Barancik, artful architect and last of the Monuments Men, is dead at 98

There is a handsome high-rise on Bellevue Place in the Gold Coast that features a lobby with a colorful mural filled with flora and fauna. Two of the building’s elevators are similarly adorned and, if you look closely enough, you can see a name in each: Jill and Ellen. They are the youngest children of Richard Barancik, the man who designed and developed this building. They lived there with .

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Richard M Barancik, the last living Monuments Man, has died, aged 98

He was part of a group that saved thousands of artworks during the Second World War from destruction and seizure by the Nazis

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