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Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Originally published on July 5, 2021 5:00 am
Gorgeous. Serene. You won t believe the rocky life this glorious young woman has led since Botticelli painted her in Italy around 1475. First off, she doesn t look her age. And with a passport that would make jet setters seem slug-a-beds, she s seen parts of Europe that Americans flock to, and ends up right now in an American city that rarely tops European s bucket lists: Cincinnati, Ohio. She s part of the Cincinnati Art Museum exhibition, Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men.
You may remember the George Clooney (be still my heart) 2014 film, about art experts, museum curators, others who volunteered to hunt down artworks confiscated by the Nazis in World War II, and hidden away for safekeeping by Hitler and his henchmen.
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1:01 Curator Peter Jonathon Bell worked with museums in Berlin and across the country in order to bring this together, says Jill Dunne, director of marketing and communications. Bell s book of the same name is the basis for the exhibition. They tell the story of this historical moment when World War II was happening and the Nazis were involved in attempting to loot artworks, and talking about specific artwork that toured America in the 1940s and became the first blockbuster art exhibition that this country has ever seen.
Claude Lorrain (French, active in Italy, 1604–1682), An Artist Studying from Nature, 1639, oil on canvas.
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.