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The Faustian Bargain: The Art World of Nazi Germany
Jonathan Petropoulos
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Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
Publication Date: 2000
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Nazi art looting has been the subject of enormous international attention in recent years, and the subject of two history bestsetters, Hector Feliciano's The Lost Museum and Lynn Nicholas's The Rape of Europa. But such books leave us wondering: What made thoughtful, educated, artistic men and women decide to put their talents in the service of a brutal and inhuman regime? This question is the starting point for The Faustian Bargain, Jonathan Petropoulos's study of five key figure in the art world of Nazi Germany. Petropoulos follows the careers of these prominent individuals who like Faust, that German archetype, chose to pursue artistic ends through collaboration with diabolical forces. Readers meet Ernst Buchner, the distinguished museum director and expert on Old Master paintings who "repatriated" Van Eyck's Ghent altarpiece to Germany, and Karl Haberstock, an art dealer who fitted German museums with works bought virtually at gunpoint from Jewish collectors. Robert Scholz, an art critic in the Third Reich, became an officer in the chief art looting unit in France and Kajetan Muhlmann -- a leading art historian -- headed tooting agencies in Poland and the Netherlands. Finally, there is Arno Breker, a gifted artist who exchanged his modernist style for monumental realism and became Hitler's favorite sculptor. If it is striking that these educated men became part of the Nazi machine, it equally is striking that most of them lived comfortably after the war. Based on previously unreleased information and recently declassified documents, The Faustian Bargain is a gripping read about the art world during this period, and a fascinating examination of the intense relationship betweenculture and poetics in the Third Reich.
Review:
"A consistently startling and intellectually rich account that throws light on the largely obscured players in the art world of Nazi Germany...."
Kirkus, 4/15/2000
Review:"THE FAUSTIAN BARGAIN provides us with remarkable insight into the surprisingly long careers of the 'ordinary men' of the Nazi art world. With its wealth of new detail, including excellent footnotes and bibliography, it adds considerable depth to the very hot topic of Nazi art looting in the Second World War."
Lynn H. Nicholas, Literary Review, May 2000
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