My next film (coming this Friday at 8pm - UK time) looks at the work of Egon Schiele that was stolen by the Nazis in WWII, and then “disappeared” in a complicated practise designed to obscure facts and create wealth for the art market. How the true owners of these artworks, the descendants of Holocaust victims, are still fighting a system that stops at nothing to keep secrets, and protect its wealthy clientele, in Germany and Austria, Switzerland and the US.
Some of these works are in private collections and established museums right now, despite being stolen by the Nazis.
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My next film (coming this Friday at 8pm - UK time) looks at the work of Egon Schiele that was stolen by the Nazis in WWII, and then “disappeared” in a complicated practise designed to obscure facts and create wealth for the art market. How the true owners of these artworks, the descendants of Holocaust victims, are still fighting a system that stops at nothing to keep secrets, and protect its wealthy clientele, in Germany and Austria, Switzerland and the US.
Some of these works are in private collections and established museums right now, despite being stolen by the Nazis.
I think, it’s about time they were returned.
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