Projektnummer

0059501

Zusammenfassung

In Moscow in November 1942, a state special commission was authorized to compile a list of art and cultural objects that could be proffered as equivalents to Russian art treasures that had been lost as a consequence of the German attack. A special committee of the USSR Council of Ministers, composed of art historians and museum specialists, based on the division of labor with a so-named Red Army "Prize Task Force" during the western advance, acquired art objects that would be suitable for compensating for Russian art losses. After the end of the war, the Soviet Military Administration ...