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The Creation of “Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection”
July 8, 2010 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location Brown Auditorium Theater, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Caroline Wiess Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet, Houston, TX 77006
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The head of the Department of Curatorial Records at The National Gallery of Art since 1990, Nancy Yeide has been involved in World War II-era provenance for the last decade. As an internationally recognized expert on the history of art collecting in the 19th and 20th centuries, she has taken a leading role in conducting provenance research on works in the gallery’s collection and has spoken and written widely on the subject. Yeide was named the prestigious Ailsa Mellon Bruce Sabbatical Curatorial Fellow for 2002-2003, during which time she researched the art collection of Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering. The results of her extensive research were recently published in the catalogue raisonné “Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection.” According to Yeide, next to Hitler, Goering was the most voracious collector of artworks plundered from Nazi-occupied lands. Goering believed himself to be a sophisticated connoisseur and, in his own mind, a Renaissance man. At his country estate, Carinhall, outside Berlin, Goering built galleries to display his growing collection. Yeide’s analysis suggests that the Goering Collection held more than 1,800 works, looted from collections, museums and galleries across Nazi-occupied Europe. Yeide holds a master of arts degree from American University and serves on a number of professional advisory panels. She is a frequent lecturer on a variety of topics at universities and museums around the world. Admission is free, but seating is limited, and advance registration is required. Visit http://www.hmh.org/RegisterEvent.aspx to RSVP online. This program has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. For their support of the Max M. Kaplan Summer Institute for Educators, Holocaust Museum Houston thanks the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany; the Max M. Kaplan Teacher Education Fund; the Chevra Kadisha Holocaust Studies Scholarship Fund; the Lea K. Weems Memorial Scholarship Fund; H-E-B, Corporate Chairman Circle Member; and Continental Airlines, the official airline of Holocaust Museum Houston. For more information, call 713-942-8000 or e-mail
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