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(Q530599)

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Miriam Cahn

Swiss contemporary artist

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Statements

given name
Miriam
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family name
Cahn
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significant event
protest
point in time
2021
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stated in
The Ugly Provenance of Kunsthaus Zürich's Collection
reference URL
https://lootedart.com/news.php?r=VASM33521121
quotation
At the end of December last year, Swiss painter Miriam Cahn made headlines by announcing that she intended to withdraw her work from Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland’s largest art museum. In an open letter to the Swiss-Jewish journal Tacheles, Cahn accused the museum of historical whitewashing, and in an interview with Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) stated: ‘I’ve had enough! I’m a Jew and that’s why I want to withdraw my works from the Kunsthaus.’ The latest chapter in what looks set to grow into Switzerland’s largest museological scandal to date, Cahn’s protest is directed against the Kuntshaus’s revisionist handling of the art collection of industrialist Emil Bührle, a German emigre to Switzerland who is known to have sold weapons to the Nazis, to have acquired art works stolen from Jewish owners, and whose company profited from forced labour by Prisoners of a women's concentration camp in Nazi-Germany. (English)

Identifiers

FAST ID
81101
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NUKAT ID
n2019009076
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abART person ID
48362
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AWARE ID
miriam-cahn
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CLARA-ID
6987
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Discogs artist ID
4091120
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DUC ID
miriam-cahn
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Europeana entity
agent/base/46499
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retrieved
12 December 2019
Freebase ID
/m/02q3p6y
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RKDartists ID
127197
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SIKART ID
4000291
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Tabakalera ID
51815
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Tate artist ID
846
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