Thematic day on the spoliation of works of art and restitution investigations

As part of the thematic day on the spoliation of works of art and restitution surveys, Sunday, March 14, the Shoah Memorial offers you two exceptional conferences.

14:30 – Conference Looting and artistic spoliations

One year after the exhibition at the Shoah Memorial, The Art Market under the Occupation, what conclusions can we draw from research into the provenance of looted works of art, which have 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 who belonged to her grandfather, will allow us to address the difficulties that Jewish families still face today 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.

16h – Preview broadcast of the film

A collection of art and blood, the Goering catalog by Laurence Thiriat

Written by Laurence Thiriat and Jean-Marc Dreyfus

France, documentary, 90 min, 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 artworks belonging to thousands of Jewish families. These looting are conscientiously noted in a catalog, archive released from 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 story that does not pass.

18h – Conference around the film

In the presence of the director and Jean-Marc Dreyfus, historian, co-author of the film and author of Le Catalogue Goering (Flammarion, 2015).

Moderated by Philippe Sprang, journalist, specialist in the spoliation of Jewish property.

With the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.