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13 July 1883Gregorian
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Robert (von) Hirsch
9 October 2017
1 November 1977
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Robert (von) Hirsch
9 October 2017
Robert von Hirsch
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The name of Cranach runs as a leitmotif through the study by Lynn H Nicholas of Nazi looting of art, The Rape of Europa (1994). If he was Goering's favourite artist, he was also high on Hitler's list. When Hitler visited the Uffizi with Mussolini, their guide tried to hurry him round in case he asked for their great Cranachs. ("Tutti questi quadri ..." Mussolini muttered: All these pictures ...) The great collector Robert von Hirsch bought exit from Germany for himself and his collection with a Cranach. Georges Braque, though an Aryan and supposedly immune to confiscation, was obliged to sell a Cranach in order to secure the safety of his collection. What had been worth an exit visa under the Third Reich became, with the liberation, equivalent to a pair of nylons. (English)
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