Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Two images of Buchenwald



"Buchenwald" by Klimt, looted from the home of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer by the Nazis in 1938 and stolen by the Austrian government in 1945. Returned to its heirs in 2006.


"Buchenwald" by Hitler, never looted but stolen from European memory. It cannot be returned to its heirs, they all perished there.

Quite a different idea about art, no?




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