Michelle Young joins Hrag Vartanian to discuss her new book about World War II hero Rose Valland.
| | | Rose Valland, André Dezarrois, and a guard preparing for an Italian art exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in 1935 (image via Archives nationales, France, 20144707/289) | | When World War II broke out, museums across France took their most precious artworks off the walls and hid them away for safekeeping from bombing. But no one suspected the greatest threat to these treasures: the Nazis’ massive art looting scheme, wherein they sought to plunder museums to bolster the image of their own galleries, take modernist (or, in their words, “degenerate”) art down from view, and disenfranchise Jewish art collectors — while raking in money for themselves along the way. When Nazis began storing stolen pieces in the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris, none of them realized that the building’s petite, bookish curator understood German. Throughout their occupation of Paris, curator and art historian Rose Valland was taking detailed notes of their crimes, and in the process, saved scores of masterpieces that otherwise may have been lost forever. In this episode of the Hyperallergic Podcast, Michelle Young joins Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian to discuss her new book, The Art Spy, which uncovers astonishing findings about the World War II hero. | |
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