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