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Goodman, Simon

 
9781925228243: The Orpheus Clock: the search for my family’s art treasures stolen by the Nazis
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ISBN 10 : 192522824X ISBN 13 : 9781925228243
Editeur : Scribe Publications, 2015

Synopsis

Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German-Jewish banking dynasties and died in concentration camps. Originally he knew little about them - his father never spoke of their history or heritage. But when Goodman received his late father's old papers, a story began to emerge. From a Bohemian hamlet the Gutmanns has risen to become one of Germany's most powerful banking families. They had also built a magnificent art collection. When Hitler took power in March 1933, they became prime targets, and eventually everything they had worked to build was taken from them: their art, their wealth, their standing, and their lives. While their son secretly worked to find and recover their prized possessions, their grandson, Simon Goodman, was living in London without any knowledge of it. Once Goodman learned about his family's stolen legacy, he began to track the art across two continents, learning that much of the collection had gone to top Nazis, including Hitler; other works had been smuggled through Switzerland, and some were now in famous museums. The first of the Goodman family paintings found was by Edgar Degas, in the collection of a Chicago billionaire. The ensuing legal case became the first of its kind in the US. Since then, the Goodman family has uncovered not only hundreds of lost pieces, but also an invaluable sense of their ancestry.

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À propos de l'auteur

Born in London shortly after WWII and educated at the French Lycee in London, then at Munich University, Simon Goodman entered the music business in the late 1960s. Goodman is married to actress May Quigley and has one son and three daughters. He lives in Los Angeles, where his search for his family's treasures continues.

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Éditeur
Scribe Publications
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
192522824X
ISBN 13 
9781925228243
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
368
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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