Looted property in the Hanover City Library Not only works of art, but also individual books or entire private libraries came into the possession of archives, museums and libraries as “Nazi-confiscated cultural property” – including Hannover City Library. The latter makes intensive efforts, in accordance with the criteria of the “Washington Principles” adopted in 1998…
Stolen artefacts in the Museum August Kestner The Museum August Kestner is the oldest museum in Hanover. In 1884, Hermann Kestner donated the sizeable collection of Ancient Egyptian antiquities and art belonging to his uncle August Kestner, his own private art collection and that of his father Georg Kestner to the city of Hanover…
Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover [Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum] In the 1920s, Hanover was a modern industrial city, yet at the same time in terms of general artistic tastes it was a “stiff and starchy provincial backwater” (Sophie Lissitzky-Küppers). Nevertheless, there did exist a few pockets of avant-garde art in the form of the Kestner Society…
Tour 4: Financial theft and art theft Mit dem Laden der Karte akzeptieren Sie die Datenschutzerklärung von OpenStreetMap Foundation.Mehr erfahren Karte laden OpenStreetMaps immer entsperren Duration: 01:05Distance: 4,22 km Financial theft and art theft The robbing first of those who emigrated, then of the Jews and Sinti who were deported to their deaths was a…