During World War II, untold numbers of artworks and cultural property were stolen by Nazi forces.
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January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
After the war, an estimated one million artworks and 2.5 million books were recovered. This program will chronicle the stories of the objects looted from Jewish families during the war including works by such renowned artists such as Marc Chagall, Paul Cézanne, Franz Marc, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Camille Pissarro.
Presenter: Sylvia Laudien-Meo is an art historian and has been involved in the art community of NYC for over 25 years, working at MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum and the Jewish Museum as gallery educator, conducting art and architecture focused tours throughout the city as well as teaching at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She came to New York from her native Germany the year the Wall came down with a DAAD scholarship for Columbia Univ. and fell in love with the city, its creative energy and art collections ...so she stayed in the US and remains most passionate about the arts and sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm.
At the conclusion of the program please feel free to take a brief online survey here:
https://www.projectoutcome.org/responses/65494
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