Thorak’s Horses: The Story of One of Hitler’s Favorite Works, Now German Government Heritage

Two bronze horses created by the artist Josef thorak To Adolf Hitler, which adorned the entrance to the Chancellery of Berlin during his rule, were recovered by Germany. After a legal agreement reached after the iconic works of Nazism, believed to have been destroyed for years, were discovered in the property of a private collector in 2015, the sculptures are now part of the heritage of the German government.

Of enormous dimensions (three meters high), Thorak’s horses were said to have been destroyed by Russian artillery in April 1945, but thanks to an investigation by the detective Brand Arthur – they call it “the Indiana Jones of the art world” – the pieces were allegedly acquired by a private collector after being abandoned on a Soviet military base, the news agency reported. DPA.

Following a police raid in 2015, the police found the horses as well as the works of the sculptors Arno breker Yes Fritz Klimsch, also prized by the Nazis, in the depot of a person accused of trafficking in illegally obtained federal property.

At that time, Germany was claiming the works claiming that they had become its property after German reunification, while the defendant businessman claimed to have acquired them legally.

The horses, which Hitler could see from his window in the Chancellery, were last seen in the so-called German Democratic Republic before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Although for many years they believed they were lost and broken, an investigation by Brand – recounted in the book Hitler’s horses– found a clue that changed the story of what we believed.

Since then, Germany has challenged possession of the works and after the court ruling, the government said in a statement its intention to exhibit the horses to the public, as cited by Spanish media. ABC.

“There is not much left of the Reich Chancellery, which occupied a very important place in Nazi propaganda,” he said in this text. Stephan’s Blades, art historian at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich, who added: “These horses should be in a museum, not in the cellar of a private collector. It’s better that we can see it. “

Source: Telam

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