Beyond the Plunder: 4 Surprising Truths About the Nazi War on Modern Art The story of Nazi-looted art has captured the modern imagination. We’ve seen it on screen in films like Woman in Gold, where a family fights to reclaim a Klimt masterpiece, and The Monuments Men, which chronicles the Allied effort to rescue Europe’s…

Jewish individuals transformed the modern art world by leveraging their positions as cultural outsiders and commercial innovators to champion avant-garde movements that the traditional establishment rejected. This transformation occurred through the creation of a new economic infrastructure for art, the validation of controversial styles like Cubism and Expressionism, and the bridging of cultural commerce between…