"On 25 August 1939, the Louvre museum closed its doors and launched its emergency plan which had been prepared since 1932. This emergency plan was different from the one executed during the Great War. This time, the evacuation was prioritised, immediate and realised on a large scale. In less th...

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1. Verfasser:	Vannier, Zoé (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	2021
Schlagworte:	Wolff Metternich, Franz > 1893-1978 Jaujard, Jacques > 1895-1967 Musée du Louvre Geschichte 1939-1945 Evakuierung Kunstschutz Zweiter Weltkrieg Sammlung
Zusammenfassung:	"On 25 August 1939, the Louvre museum closed its doors and launched its emergency plan which had been prepared since 1932. This emergency plan was different from the one executed during the Great War. This time, the evacuation was prioritised, immediate and realised on a large scale. In less than two months, the Louvre museum put about 5,446 crates in safe places; of those 359 were from the Near Eastern Antiquities Department. By the time war was declared against the Third Reich on 3 September 1939, the administration already put beyond 75% of the Louvre collections in the new storage areas for safe keeping. Thanks to the political consensus between the French curator Jacques Jaujard and the German officer Franz Wolff-Metternich, the artefacts evacuated remained in safety at Cheverny castle throughout the war period. The good state of conservation of the collections on their return reflects the success of the emergency plan developed by the Louvre. The reactivity of administrators to trigger the emergency plan, the tacit alliance between Jaujard and Metternich and the exchange with Spain showed that collections were not protected by protection plans but by the strong commitment of the agents who ran them."
Beschreibung:	Illustrationen
ISBN:	978-0-367-27250-0