Nazi looting: Egon Schiele's Portrait of Wally

[@timskinnercanada]

I really enjoy this channel and have learned so much thanks to your efforts. Keep up the great work.

[@Simonjose7258]

I went to see that show at the MoMA. Amazing to see in person. His pencil drawings were mesmerizing. So few lines accomplishing so much... And there, right before you enter the gallery, was Gustav Klimt's 'the kiss'. I'll never forget. So beautiful.

[@AndreaOsorto]

How is it hard to imagine Nazis collecting art when Hitler persued an art career in his early life? Great video!!!

[@supremereader7614]

Andrea Osorto cuz most people who are horrible racists aren’t very interested in art.

[@Ayelet.M]

Because he failed so badly lol And now again, with opening his shameful museum.

[@attheranch873]

They weren’t collecting it, they were stealing it.

[@ulrikjensen6841]

@@attheranch873 It is strange but lucky for the afterworld that they did not burn the "degenerate pictures" as they did with books they did not like.

[@evamarie2628]

so interesting, it must feel so unjust to the art collector and her family that she tried so hard to keep track of it then all of a sudden its in MOMA in an exhibition!

[@curiousworld7912]

I, too, wish museums would show the provenance of their collections. It would be interesting in itself to know, but more importantly, it would serve history and the work's rightful owners.

[@AndrewEdling]

I love Egon Schiele so much ❤️

[@killybilli]

I saw his work at Leopold Museum in Vienna, his lines are something else. Was an amazing experience.

[@Sasha0927]

On a side note, I love language. This is the first "Schiele" I've heard that wasn't spelled "Shiela." It's a nice name in either case, just a bit of a surprise. What a cruel twist of fate for Bondi, though! There's a Leopold born every minute - you have to watch your back! lol. I was very glad to hear that there was something akin to justice for her descendants about this painting. That was quite a tale and I agree it'd be nice to know more about art's history (of ownership). The only thing worse than not returning pieces to their owners is leaving it to rot in storage - it should be on display somewhere! At least that way there's a .000000003% chance that a conversation on ownership can begin...

[@bertrandgossart680]

Excellent. Interesting comments about 'violent collecting' in history. Irak is both a good and sad example in recent times.

[@evamaria6720]

Egon schiele died october 31th, 1918 - shortly before the end of world war 1 - of spanish flu a few days after his wife edith.

[@Kaylbee]

Excellent look at provenance!

[@garypecoraro9293]

Thank you for a true history lesson , keep up the beautiful work, and help to very impossibly correct the mistakes that other generations made and never corrected. God bless...👍👍❤ for art.

[@supremereader7614]

6:35 a very good point 😅

[@SKF358]

Very important photos of the Nazi art confiscation I have never seen. FYI, your photo on the Warsaw uprising says 1943, I believe it is 1944. Great video, again.

[@smarthistory-art-history]

Thank you for being in touch. This photo is from the report by General Jürgen Stroop for Heinrich Himmler and dates to 1943. For more on the report see: www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/warsaw_ghetto/collection_gallery.asp and the complete report see: catalog.archives.gov/id/6003996

[@oldwoman2121]

I love this portrait.

[@andreavez4840]

Thank you for the critical voice!

[@wisebee]

I loved reading Edsel's 'The Monuments Men' - you've really brought their type of work to light. Thanks!

[@johnmainwaring6556]

Thanks for highlighting this injustice. With all the footage of the holocaust out there now it is incredulous that some states still don't seek to recompense the victims of the world's, all-time, most criminal regime. Like there's any justification for such a stance. Shame on them.

[@wuaaron808]

what a story!

[@Grendelmonster8u]

Great video. Interesting information and photos, the latter being astounding. I agree that knowing more about how the art was acquired provides even more fascinating and useful history. There are just a lot of selfish people and museums. I'm glad, though, that Europeans took home objects from their foreign excavations with the purpose of putting them in museums for all to see because I think many would have been destroyed or fallen into disrepair. If museums have self-guided audio tours I always use them now. On one of them they played period music and mentioned some anecdotes which made the portraits more interesting. Those audios would be a good way to talk about the history of what happened to the art, though museums might not want to make themselves look bad, but it is what it is, and they all do it. Then there were the private collectors like William Randolph Hearst who owned a whopping amount of art and they give a tour explaining how they were acquired. An obituary estimated that Hearst alone had accounted for 25 percent of the world's art market during the 1920s and '30s. When his empire teetered near bankruptcy in 1937, the collections were divided. Half was retained by Hearst, and half became his companies' asset, much of it to be sold. The dispersal of most of this colossal hoard over the years, and Citizen Kane 's freakish image, hindered a correct assessment of Hearst's achievements as a collector, hearstcastle.org/history-behind-hearst-castle/art/ www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/hearst-collector