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Article: Displaced art. (art seized from Nazi Germany by the Soviet Union after World War II)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- September 1, 1995
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Fifty years after the end of World War II, the art confiscated by Soviet forces from occupied territory has finally entered the public arena. On Feb. 28, with virtually no advance notice, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow unveiled "Twice Saved," an exhibition of 63 paintings ranging from the late 14th to the late 19th century, from German and Hungarian private and museum collections. A month later, following an American and European media blitz, St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum opened "Hidden Treasures Revealed," an exhibition of 74 mostly Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings by artists such as Degas, Renoir, Gauguin and van Gogh, almost entirely from private German ...