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Artwork from Adolf Hitler's infamous Linz collection is now on display online, in hopes that all of the missing pieces may be found and returned.Artwork from Adolf Hitler's infamous Linz collection is now on display online, in... more
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A musuem in Berlin has put the legendary Linz Collection, Hitler’s private collection of art, online. Just think how different world history would be if Hitler had just been accepted to art school.A musuem in Berlin has put the legendary Linz Collection, Hitler’s private... more
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A musuem in Berlin has put the legendary Linz Collection, Hitler's private collection of art, online. It may be the first time since World War II that the all the pieces have been assembled in one place.
Adolf Hitler's notorious "Linz Collection" -- a private collection of art displayed in Linz and then stashed in salt mines at the end of World War II -- has now been put online in digital form by the German Historical Musem, not for casual viewing but to help track the provenance of some pieces.
The Führer's taste ran to bucolic idylls and precious German Romanticism, in particular 19th century painters from Vienna and Munich. He ignored, famously, "degenerate" art by realistic or socially biting artists -- among them the mightiest names of the 20th century -- but he managed to assemble a large and not insignificant private collection.
He wanted to use the art as the kernel of a large "Führermuseum," which he hoped to build in Linz, Austria, by 1950. For two years before 1945 some art was displayed in Linz, where the Austrian-born Hitler spent part of his youth. Hitler's foundation to support the museum was called the Sonderauftrag Linz, or "Special Project: Linz," and financed by proceeds from his book, Mein Kampf.
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