Nazi Art Looters
Boulevard Montmartre, Matinee de Printemps painted by Camille Pissarro 1897. The above painting is among the artworks looted by the Nazis during the Third Reich regime. It was originally owned by Max Milerberg, a German Jewish Industrialist who had one of the most impressive art collections in pre-war Germany. He died in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. It will be auctioned by Sotheby's on 5 February with an estimated price of €12 million. Between the 1930s and the early forties, Hitler masterminded the biggest theft of fine art in history when countless works belonging to museums and private Jewish collections were looted by the ...
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