Stories of Jewish owners of art collections and the search for their confiscated property
Stories of Jewish Owners of Art Collections and the Search for Their Confiscated Property Wednesday, June 4 at 6 p.m. The lecture will include the stories of three prominent Jewish businessmen who had art collections in pre-war Czechoslovakia. One of them was the Brno textile industrialist Johann Bloch. When he wanted to travel abroad with his wife, he had to donate part of his art collection to the state. He lost paintings, sculptures, furniture, textiles and antiques. The lecturer will explain how the search for the confiscated property was carried out and will explain what helped to return at least part of the art collection to Johann Bloch's descendants. The lecture by art historian Lucie Němečková and historian Vojtěch Řapek from the Centre for Documentation of Property Transfers of Cultural Property of World War II Victims, o.p.s. is thematically related to the lecture "What happened to confiscated Jewish property during and after the war?" held in Malý Mehrin in March this year.
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