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Siegfried Blumenthal. Life In and Outside Reality

The monograph study entitled Siegfried Blumenthal. Life In and Outside Reality is focused on the fate of the collector Siegfried Blumenthal of Brno. The story of Blumenthal´s life is followed by a provenance study and the catalogue of the fragments of the original collection of silver objects today in the care of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Brno. Provenance research of the Blumenthal collection resulted not only in the present publication but, more importantly, led to a successful restitution of the several pieces from the original collection to the descendants of the original owner.

Foreword by Tomáš Kraus

The book is published in a bilingual Czech–English version.

Siegfried Blumenthal. Life In and Outside Reality. Anti-Jewish measures in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: The looting of Siegfried Blumenthal´s property and part of his silver collection at the Museum of Applied Arts in Brno. Prague, Documentation Centre for Property Transfers of the Cultural Assets of WWII Victims, Institute of Contemporary History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. 2010. 222 p.

ISBN 978-80-7285-130-0

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