As part of the Thematic Day on Spoliation of Works of Art and Restitution Investigations, Sunday 14 March, the Shoah Memorial offers two exceptional conferences.
A year after the Shoah Memorial exhibition The Art Market under the Occupation, what conclusions can we draw from the provenance research of looted works of art, which has become a crucial issue for museums? The dialogue between a specialist in these questions and an heiress, giving us her investigation to find works by famous artists that belonged to her grandfather, will allow us to address the difficulties still encountered today by Jewish families in this quest.
In the presence of Pauline Baer de Perignon, author of La Collection perdue (Stock, 2020) and Emmanuelle Polack, art historian, Musée du Louvre, author of Le Marché de l'art sous l'Occupation, (Tallandier, 2019).
Hosted by Emmanuelle Lequeux, journalist and art critic.
A collection of art and blood, the Goering catalogue by Laurence Thiriat
Written by Laurence Thiriat and Jean-Marc Dreyfus
France, documentary, 90 mn, Schuch Productions, Flair Productions, Kaos Film/Arte, Kaos Films, ARTE GEIE,RTBF, 2020.
Synopsis: During the war, Hermann Goering, the second strong man of the Nazi regime, sets up for personal purposes a gigantic enterprise of spoliation of works of art belonging to thousands of Jewish families. These looting are carefully noted in a catalog, an archive that came out of oblivion in 2015. Conducted as a real police investigation, the film takes us to the four corners of the world in order to search for witnesses, archives and traces of a history that does not pass.
In the presence of the director and Jean-Marc Dreyfus, historian, co-author of the film, and author of Le Catalogue Goering (Flammarion, 2015).
Led by Philippe Sprang, journalist and specialist in the dispossession of Jewish property.
With the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
