The Ultimate Trophy: How The Impressionist Painting Conquered The World by Philip Hook

Author:Philip Hook [Hook, Philip]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Prestel Verlag
Published: 2012-12-17T05:00:00+00:00

40 Presumed destroyed in World War II: a typical post-war reference to Degas’s Place de la Concorde.

As Berlin found itself increasingly under aerial attack, art collections had to be moved to places of greater safety. Most of the Gerstenberg/Scharf collection was found refuge, together with various treasures from the Berlin museums including the Trojan gold from the Schliemann collection, in a fortress-like anti-aircraft tower at the Berlin zoo. Its walls, constructed of reinforced concrete two metres thick, were understood to be bomb-proof. It was a measure of how far Impressionism had come: 75 years earlier Prussian soldiers had been cleaning their boots with Pissarro landscapes. Now room was eagerly being found in the ultimate repository of German national art treasures at a time of acute emergency for works by Renoir and Degas.

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