Comments on: The Destruction of Jerome Klein http://arthistorynewsletter.com/blog/?p=1365 News for Art Historians Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:57:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Kelly Presutti http://arthistorynewsletter.com/blog/?p=1365&cpage=1#comment-138016 Kelly Presutti Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:27:53 +0000 http://arthistorynewsletter.com/blog/?p=1365#comment-138016 For a related but inverse topic, see this upcoming talk in New York on the “monuments men” – members of an Allied military service unit charged with the preservation and restitution of artworks damaged during WWII Nazi lootings, many of whom went on to become prominent art historians and museum directors: http://www.ifar.org/upcoming_event.php?docid=1270147396 And, in a serendipitous moment of overlapping historical inquiry, a conference in Munich will address the German counterpart: http://www.zikg.eu/main/2010/kunstschutz/index.htm For a related but inverse topic, see this upcoming talk in New York on the “monuments men” – members of an Allied military service unit charged with the preservation and restitution of artworks damaged during WWII Nazi lootings, many of whom went on to become prominent art historians and museum directors:

http://www.ifar.org/upcoming_event.php?docid=1270147396

And, in a serendipitous moment of overlapping historical inquiry, a conference in Munich will address the German counterpart:

http://www.zikg.eu/main/2010/kunstschutz/index.htm

]]> By: Ben http://arthistorynewsletter.com/blog/?p=1365&cpage=1#comment-137971 Ben Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:24:56 +0000 http://arthistorynewsletter.com/blog/?p=1365#comment-137971 It's striking to read how Oxford and Cambridge (unlike Harvard and Yale) rightly refused to participate in the Nazi-sponsored 550th-anniversary celebrations at Heidelberg. http://mj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/kjm013v1 It’s striking to read how Oxford and Cambridge (unlike Harvard and Yale) rightly refused to participate in the Nazi-sponsored 550th-anniversary celebrations at Heidelberg.

http://mj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/kjm013v1

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