From the Island Owner to the King

On the other side of the wall, there are some large boxes stacked.

Chen Rui opened one of the big boxes.

In the box is a framed oil painting.

Chen Rui picked up the oil painting and glanced at it.

Seeing this, Chen Rui was instantly stunned, his mouth opened wide, his eyes widened, and an incredible expression appeared on his face.

"This is..."Portrait of a Young Man." Chen Rui almost exclaimed.

Chen Rui was very shocked when he saw this painting, showing an incredible expression.

It is because of a Hollywood movie "Allied Treasure Team", which Chen Rui has seen. In the movie, this famous painting of Italian painter Raphael has appeared in the movie screen many times. It was written by a group of historians. , The Allied Treasure Team composed of museum personnel and the Nazi SS fought fiercely around this painting. A very famous painting, in the movie, was finally burned by the Nazis.

Although in the plot of the movie, this famous painting was burnt down by the Nazis, many people believe that this painting is still "alive", but like many artworks taken away by the Nazis, its hiding place is still unknown.

It turned out that this famous painting was not burned, but it was actually a treasure here.

It is conceivable that once this painting is published, it will shock the art world all over the world.

Because the author of the painting is Raphael. Along with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he is also known as the Three Masters of the Renaissance.

Chen Rui carefully put "Portrait of a Young Man" back into the box.

Then open the other boxes and do a rough inventory.

The boxes are paintings, drawings, watercolors and prints.

Among these works are Claude Monet, the French painter, representative of Impressionism and one of the founders, and the genius Austrian painter Egon Schiele. Cezanne, Matisse, Otto Dix, the masters of Van Gogh, and some considered 'degenerate art' by the Nazis. Famous paintings by modern masters such as Reno, Picasso and Chagall.

The number is very large.

There are about 3000 pictures.

However, compared with a German official secret report, as of July 1944, a total of 137 railway wagons were loaded with cultural relics from Western Europe to Germany.

A total of 4174 boxes. 20,973 pieces, 10,890 paintings,  …

Goering has a collection of 5,000 world famous paintings, and the huge Carlin Palace still cannot hold the famous paintings that Goering plundered. Since the walls of the Karlin Palace are full of famous paintings and there is no room for extra space, some paintings can only be hung in front of others.

The artworks that Hitler hid in the Ortosee Salt Mine on the outskirts of Linz in preparation for the Super Museum include about 6,577 masterpieces.

The Nazis conquered France, and thousands of works of art were collected by the Nazis in the National Gallery in Paris.

3,000 famous paintings are only a small fraction of the famous paintings that the Nazis looted across Europe.

Many of these paintings have been featured in more than 40 albums held in the National Archives.

These photo albums are photos of artworks looted by German troops in the occupied countries during World War II. These albums are specially for Hitler to read, and he selects the artworks and transports them back to German museums for collection.

Some paintings have also appeared in the "Falling Art Exhibition" under the label of "Falling Art".

Falling artwork refers to Impressionism. Cubist, Modernist paintings, among them, Kandinsky. Otto Dix, Reno, Van Gogh, Picasso, Chagall and other masters' paintings.

The reason for the label "falling art" is related to Hitler's personal aesthetic orientation.

Hitler had hoped to become a painter, and in middle school, Hitler was only good at "free painting". He failed in mathematics and natural history, which prevented him from graduating. When he was young, he applied for the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts twice and failed.

After Hitler came to power, what Hitler could not tolerate the most was Post-Impressionist Modernist art. Calling modernist artists "crazy and decadent", proof of brain confusion, anyone who paints the sky green and the fields blue should be castrated, their works are "deformed scribbles", yes "Degenerate" art style.

A catalogue called 'kunst' was compiled in 1941-1942, and 'kunst' was translated as fall art.

Some of these paintings have appeared in museums and art galleries in various countries such as the German National Museum, the Berlin Art Museum, the Paris National Gallery, and the Jode Palmet Museum in France during and before World War II.

Even, many famous paintings here are the treasures of some famous museums in Europe.

For example, Raphael's "Portrait of a Young Man", which I just saw.

There are also Da Vinci's "Last Supper (study), man profile and two riders study, apostle head and buildings, study, Vitruvian man proportion study, star lily and other plants, figure skull study, ...etc. Sketch drawings, drafts, paintings of Mona Lisa (part 3).

There is also an oil painting "Worship of the Three Dynasties", which is based on the story of the Three Magi who came to worship when Jesus was born in the Bible.

The painting depicts three sages visiting the newborn Christ and his mother Mary.

There are 36 people and 11 animals on the painting, one of which is a shepherd standing alone at the right end of the painting, and the Virgin, the Holy Child and the three Doctors form a stable composition of triangles.

However, the surrounding crowd circled around with excited gestures, like a vortex of crowds. On the background, a building relic was drawn with precise perspective and the galloping horse team formed a strong contrast.

This is Leonardo da Vinci's "Worship of the Three Dynasties". It is a work in which Leonardo da Vinci's artistic style has reached a mature stage. It is the most important painting in his life and a treasure among the 15 existing works.

Regardless of artistic value, artistic style, artistic innovation in painting, etc., it is enough to match the famous painting "Mona Lisa", which is collected in the Louvre Museum in Paris, one of the three treasures of the Louvre Museum. A comparable painting.

This "Three Dynasties" is the finished draft of Leonardo da Vinci.

There is also an unfinished draft of "Three Dynasties", which is collected by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and is a treasure of the museum.

It is conceivable that Da Vinci's sketches, drafts, and Mona Lisa (part 3), "Three Dynasties", will shock the global art world and cause madness in the international art world.

With these, it is more than enough to open a Da Vinci art museum.

In addition to the paintings of the Renaissance three Geraphael, Leonardo da Vinci.

There are also places where the "Ghent Altarpiece" of St. John's Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium, the 'father of Impressionism' Manet, the pioneer of post-impressionism Van Gogh, the father of modern art Paul Cezanne, Picasso, Chagall and other masters painting. (To be continued)