September 17, 2021

Glance at Culture - Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men: Dr. Peter Bell on the Weisbaden Manifesto, Berlin Masterpieces and Provenance Research

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For more information about the Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men exhibition, please visit the Cincinnati Art Museum's website.

Show Notes:

04:00 Inspiration for Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men: The Berlin Masterpieces in America

05:15 How issues surrounding post-WWII exhibition of Berlin 202 are addressed

07:50 Prizes of war or protection mission for German patrimony per Truman Administration

11:30 Reasoning for Weisbaden Manifesto

12:00 “Art & Injustice”

15:30 Design process of the exhibition

18:00 Legacy of Weisbaden Collecting Point Director Captain Walter Farmer

18:30 Red background inspired by Army tour’s exhibition catalog

19:30 Oskar Kokoshka painting in 1937 Degenerate Art Exhibition and sent to Lucerne auction

20:30 Botticelli’s Ideal Portrait of a Woman

21:45 Self-Portrait by Moravian painter Martin Quadal

22:15 Madonna and Child from Jacques Goudstikker’s collection

24:20 Reactions of visitors

26:15 Message of the exhibition

28:50 why does it matter who takes care of artwork, where they travel and how they are used?

29:30 archival material in exhibition

31:10 The Berlin Masterpieces catalog

33:00 the fundamental importance of provenance research

35:25 Advice to those interested in a career as a provenance researcher and/or curator

37:20 ‘web of connections’ in art history

37:45 Book recommendation: Rape of Europa

39:15 Worcester Museum’s current exhibition as a case study on Nazi looted art

40:00 Symposium will include keynote speaker Dr. Richard Kurin, Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture and Ambassador at large for the Smithsonian Institution

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Music by Toulme.

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