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> former SS member Lohse obtained a visa to visit America in the mid-50s to ply his trade in New York’s thriving art market This surprises me. I was under the
by rendall 4y ago
> former SS member Lohse obtained a visa to visit America in the mid-50s to ply his trade in New York’s thriving art market
This surprises me. I was under the impression that New York's art market throve after WW2 largely due to refugees driven from European art markets by the war, particularly from, but not only, Paris and Berlin. New York had not previously been the art mecca it later became.
He could not have been very successful there.
- conorcleary 4y agoOr they smuggled over and introduced stolen art to sell to the elite underhandedly.
- rendall 4y agoThe New York art scene is like a small town even today. Everyone knows each other, at least in passing. People talk. I don't know how much Lohse could manage to smuggle and sell before running into someone with a serious ax to grind.
- rendall 4y agoOk, downvoters: explain.