Catherine Hickley sits down with Nancy Yeide to discuss Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection
Quantity took priority over quality in Hermann Goering’s sprawling art collection, much of it plundered from Jews.
His gluttony for oil canvases becomes clear in Nancy Yeide’s Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection, the first comprehensive catalog of as many as 1,800 works that the Reichsmarschall stashed away at his country estate Carinhall, built as a hunting lodge in a nature reserve outside Berlin.
Adolf Hitler’s right-hand man in the Nazi party and a morphine addict with opulent tastes, Goering liked portraits of German generals and political heroes, Dutch Old Masters and paintings of women, preferably unclothed. He amassed some 50 works by Lucas Cranach the Elder and 30 by Peter Paul Rubens. (…more at Bloomberg website…)