27 Jan 2021: CGSG & CASSIS Conversation with Pauline Baer de Perignon
ABERDEEN & BONN GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS, 27 Jan. 2020, 4 pm (GMT), 5 pm (CET), 11 am (EST), Online/MsTeams
Pauline Baer de Perignon
A Conversation on Holocaust Memorial Day about Overcoming the Silences of the Generations that Preceded us (with a response by Carolin Lange)
To register & receive the link for this event, please go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pauline-baer-de-perignon-a-conversation-on-la-collection-disparue-tickets-136471737641 or email t.weber@abdn.ac.uk
In this conversation, Pauline Baer de Perignon will share the insights from her new book ‘La Collection Disparue’ (Stock), which recovers the life of her great-grandfather Jules Strauss, whose art collection was looted in 1942 by the Nazis during the German occupation of France.
The book follows the trail of Pauline Baer’s quest to find the pieces of art stolen from her great-grandfather. It raises questions that pertain to all of us: What are we to do with looted art that has survived the chaos of history? What do pieces of art transmit to us over time, in all their grace and fragility? How are we to act as ordinary citizens when there is no adequate legislation to deal with the injustices of the past? And, finally, what can we learn from the silence of the generations that preceded us?
Carolin Lange is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Lange & Schmutz Provenienzrecherchen.