Many pieces of art and treasure were lost during the time of the Holocaust. Losing art and treasure is like losing a piece to your culture. Up to 200,000 art works are thought to have gone missing during WWII. Luckily, a group called the Monuments Men saved or discovered more than five million works of art in Nazi hiding places. Without them many famous pieces of art known around the world wouldn’t be here today.
The Monuments men didn’t save every treasure or piece of art, but there are some missing that we know plenty about. Raphael, “Portrait of a Young Man” was created in 1514 and looted by Nazis in 1939. It truly is a bummer because it is considered the most important piece of missing art. Not much is known about Pissarro, “The Boulevard Montmartre, Twilight” except it was looted by the Nazis and its current location is an enigma. Dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the World”, the Amber Room was looted by Nazis in WWII, taken to the city of Königsberg, and cannot be found since. Stolen by Japanese forces during WWII, Yamashita’s Gold was on a Japanese ship when it was sunk in combat. Vincent van Gogh, “The Painter on the Road to Tarascon”, 1888 went missing after the Nazis removed it for being degenerate to their culture. It was later …show more content…
Many famous pieces of art created during the Holocaust were made by Jews. Pavel Fantl, “The Song is Over” (1941-1944), was painted in a ghetto and the supplies to paint were fetched by a Czech policeman. This painting depicts Hitler as a clown. Painted by Nelly Toll at just eight years old “Girls in the Field” (1943) was made to depict the freedom she yearned for during the Holocaust. Last of all “One Spring” (1941) painted in a concentration camp by Karl Bodek and Kurt Conrad Löw also depicts their hope for the future. One of the artists, Karl Bodek, died in Auschwitz while Kurt Conrad was able to flee. Most of all he art painted by Jews in that time period depicts their yearn for
The Monuments men didn’t save every treasure or piece of art, but there are some missing that we know plenty about. Raphael, “Portrait of a Young Man” was created in 1514 and looted by Nazis in 1939. It truly is a bummer because it is considered the most important piece of missing art. Not much is known about Pissarro, “The Boulevard Montmartre, Twilight” except it was looted by the Nazis and its current location is an enigma. Dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the World”, the Amber Room was looted by Nazis in WWII, taken to the city of Königsberg, and cannot be found since. Stolen by Japanese forces during WWII, Yamashita’s Gold was on a Japanese ship when it was sunk in combat. Vincent van Gogh, “The Painter on the Road to Tarascon”, 1888 went missing after the Nazis removed it for being degenerate to their culture. It was later …show more content…
Many famous pieces of art created during the Holocaust were made by Jews. Pavel Fantl, “The Song is Over” (1941-1944), was painted in a ghetto and the supplies to paint were fetched by a Czech policeman. This painting depicts Hitler as a clown. Painted by Nelly Toll at just eight years old “Girls in the Field” (1943) was made to depict the freedom she yearned for during the Holocaust. Last of all “One Spring” (1941) painted in a concentration camp by Karl Bodek and Kurt Conrad Löw also depicts their hope for the future. One of the artists, Karl Bodek, died in Auschwitz while Kurt Conrad was able to flee. Most of all he art painted by Jews in that time period depicts their yearn for