Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Exhibition in Jerusalem of stolen art in the Second World War by the nazis


there is a exhibition in the Israel' museum about art that was steal for the Second World War by the nazis in France and taked it to Germany.
In this exhibition show 53 paintings that was found of tens of thousands.
After the end of the war, 60.000 of these artworks were get back by the French. 45.000 of them were returned to their owners, but 2.000 of them had been delivered to museums of French, or there wasn't information enough about their owners.
In the exhibition there are paintings of Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Delacroix...
In the picture of this article is " Snow of sunset", an painting of Monet.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009