Echoes of Exile Moscow archives and the arts in Paris 1933-1945 : [conference Wie das zweite Exil das erste zum Sprechen bringt- Moskauer Archive und die Künste in Paris 1933-1945, DHI Moskau in June 2011

Paris - Moskau: German-speaking artists and their archives in exile Thousands of people were driven into exile by Germany's National Socialist regime from 1933 onward. For many German-speaking artists and writers Paris became a temporary capital. The archives of these exiles became "displaced objects" - scattered, stolen, confiscated, and often destroyed, but also frequently preserved. This book assesses previously unknown source material stored at the Moscow State Military Archive (RVGA) since the end of the war, and offers new insights into the activities of German-speaking exiles in the 1930s in Paris and Europe. Against the backdrop of current debates surrounding displaced cultural goods and their restitution, this work seeks to facilitate a transnational, interdisciplinary scientific dialogue. * Examines previously unknown sources related to artists, art historians, art dealers and art critics living in exile. * Offers new insights into the activities of German-speaking exiles in the 1930s in Paris. This book is the fruit of the international conference Wie das zweite Exil das erste zum Sprechen bringt--Moskauer Archive und die Künste in Paris 1933-1945 (How the second exile gives a voice to the first--Moscow Archives and the arts in Paris 1933-1945), which took place at the German Historical Institute (DHI Moskau) in Moscow, June 23-24, 2011. The aim of the conference, held in French, German and Russian, was to promote international discussion and basic research on art history during the years 1933-1945. The idea was to bring together specialists in different historical fields, with different experiences in the art world and who normally did not meet or work together--specialists in national heritage despoiled by war, specialists in provenance research, art historians, specialists in exile studies, in Russian archives--and to suggest new research prospects emanating from these newly discovered documents. The diversity of participants (from France, Germany, Russia, and the U.S.) would enable both a deeper and broader perspective concerning the years between 1933-1945, a clearer, more authentic image of cultural repression before the Nazis actually seized power in France in 1940. And Paris was all the more important as it was the intellectual and artistic refuge for the majority of those who were against the Nazi regime in Germany German-speaking Artists In Parisian Exile : Their Routes To The French Capital, Activities There, And Final Flight-a Short Introduction / Hélène Roussel -- Plunder, Restitution, Emotion And The Weight Of Archives. A Historical Approach / Bénédicte Savoy -- 'trophy' Archives In Moscow And The Art Scene In France And Germany Under The National Socialist Regime, 1933-1945: A Brief Orientation / Patricia Kennedy Grimsted -- Lifting The Veil On Moscow's Secret Archives / Kerstin Holm, Vladimir Korotayev -- The Arthur Goldschmidt File In The Archive Of The Direction De La Sûreté. French Police Archives Shed Light On Paul Graupe & Cie (paris, 1937-1939) / Isabelle Le Masne De Chermont -- Not My Most Beautiful But My Best Paintings: Oskar Kokoschka's List For London / Keith Holz -- The Art Historian Charlotte Weidler: A Lost Voice Speaks From The Moscow Special Archive / Ines Rotermund-reynard -- The Paul Cassirer Gallery (1933-1945): Berlin-amsterdam-london / Christina Feilchenfeldt -- August Liebmann Mayer (1885-1944)-success, Failure, Emigration, Deportation And Murder / Christian Fuhrmeister, Susanne Kienlechner. Editor, Ines Rotermund-reynard. Includes Bibliographical References.

Thousands of people were driven into exile by Germany's National Socialist regime from 1933 onward. For many German-speaking artists and writers Paris became a temporary capital. The archives of these exiles became "displaced objects" - scattered, stolen, confiscated, and often destroyed, but also frequently preserved. This book assesses previously unknown source material stored at the Moscow State Military Archive (RVGA) since the end of the war, and offers new insights into the activities of German-speaking exiles in the 1930s in Paris and Europe. Against the backdrop of current debates surrounding displaced cultural goods and their restitution, this work seeks to facilitate a transnational, interdisciplinary scientific dialogue.

Ab 1933 wurden Tausende von Menschen vom nationalsozialistischen Regime ins Exil getrieben. Für viele deutschsprachige Künstler und Schriftsteller wurde Paris vorübergehend zur Hauptstadt. Die Archive dieser Exilanten wurden zu "displaced objects", verstreut, geraubt, verschleppt, oft zerstört, aber auch häufig bewahrt. Im Zentrum des Buches steht die Auswertung unbekannten Quellenmaterials, das seit Kriegsende im Moskauer Sonderarchiv/RGVA lagert und das neue Einblicke in die Aktivitäten der deutschsprachigen Emigration der dreißiger Jahre in Paris und Europa erlaubt. Im Rahmen der aktuellen Debatte um deplatzierte Kulturgüter und Restitution versucht der Band damit auch einen transnationalen, interdisziplinären Wissenschaftsdialog zu eröffnen. Thousands of people were driven into exile by Germany's National Socialist. For many artists Paris became a temporary capital. The archives of these exiles were stolen, confiscated, and often destroyed, but also frequently preserved. This book assesses unknown source material stored at the Moscow State Military Archive since the end of the war, and offers new insights into the activities of German-speaking exiles in the 1930s in Paris and Europe.