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Germán Ossa
Thursday, July 26, "Hitler against Picbado", the Nazi obsession for art, was premiered in the halls of Colombia, a documentary that shows systematic theft great treasures. of European culture and, on 4 and 5 August, exclusively, the beautiful film Fabergé.
"Göring selected personal items for himself and for the Führer, and among my duties was to list paintings, furniture, tapestries, participate in auctions, keep work in air raid shelters until the end of the year. February 1944, when everything was delivered to Walter Hofer. "
With these statements of Gisela Limberger, personal badistant of the dreaded Hermann Göring – Reich Marshal – to the US military on August 9, 1945, begins the documentary" Hitler against Picbado: the Nazi obsession for art, which happened at theaters in the country, including ours.
With rigorous documentation and a scenario that combines with revealing information, with curious historical anecdotes and mystery, the production follows the path to more than 600,000 works of art that the Nazis stole during the Second World War World.
Seventy years later, and when many consider it's time to turn the page on the Holocaust, the story emphasizes the demonstration that there are still many injuries to close and secrets to reveal. And in this specific case of stolen art works to private Jewish collectors, to museums, to churches and to galleries, the shadow of this other atrocious act of the Nazis comes as a warning message in the 21st century
. 2010, a German of the third age, named Cornelius Gurlitt, travels on a train from Zurich to Munich. At an occasional inspection, the authorities find 9,000 euros in cash and decide to follow the track.
Upon entering his apartment in Munich, one discovers more than a thousand works of art from his father, an art dealer in the service of Hitler, whom Gurlitt keeps hiding .
"It made a great impression on us. About seventy years later, this story is not over. Therefore, we thought that talking about this looting was very timely, "says Fedeli, from his office in Italy. She worked with the screenplay of the production with Dini Gnocchi and Arianna Marelli
Although the plot begins when the Führer commits suicide, his structure makes a "throwback" to the decade of the 30s, century last, and rigorously detective begins to follow the stages of the obsession with the art
Suspense 
The richness of cinematographic archive images on the opulent life of the l 39; Nazi army in their elegant country houses and the precious testimony of the witnesses of the first hand of the excesses that they committed to convert the production, practically, into a suspense movie.
"We had hours and hours of interviews and an incredible amount of records, such as the organized catalog of Göring's works of art in France. we knew that if we had to reveal something, we had to accompany it with their respective document.The truth had to be able to keep up, "says the Italian researcher.
Fedeli points out, for example, not only the valuable contribution of the parents of Jewish descendants living in New York today, who have been able to recover many of the works of art that have been stolen from their homes. families, but also key witnesses first hand
This is the case of a Führer neighbor who appears in the production. "He wrote a book titled" I was Hitler's neighbor ", which we found during our investigations.That's how we found his author in England.He is very old but we managed to talk to him through the intermediation of one of his sons, "notes Fedeli
although Hitler and Göring are closer to works of clbadical art, making jewelry from Vermeer, Rubens, Van Eyck, Goya, Tiepolo or Titian were no strangers to modernists either.His collections were also works of Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka or Paul Klee.
"They were contradictory. They were compulsive collectors and there was a bourgeois obsession with the Nazis. They wanted to be more than themselves, to look noble. Therefore, they would like so much, for example, images related to hunting and portraits. They used art as another means of power, "says researcher
Fedeli says that they also used as narrative thread, the history and location of some of the works of art. They also reclaimed art, to tell who were their owners, to try to find the memory of these Jewish families.
Well, as noted Christopher A. Marinello, an expert in the recovery of stolen international art, in the documentary: "Beyond the art collection, being able to find Culture was another weapon of the Germans. "
Investigators report in the documentary that Picbado once told a journalist who once came to his studio in Paris a Gestapo official. The artist had a postcard of Guernica on the table. And the officer asked, "Have you done this master?" Picbado replied: "No. That's your job."
Picbado adds to the journalist in March 1945: "What do you think of an artist? A fool who, if he is a painter It's only with the eyes that, if he is a musician, he only has ears or he is a boxer, he only has muscles? An artist is a politician attentive to the heartbreaking, inflamed or soft facts of the world.How is it possible to remain indifferent to other men? The painting is not made to decorate the apartments.It is an offensive war instrument. and defensive against the enemy, "concluded Picbado, and this is recovered by the documentary.
FABERGÉ
When we talk about Fabergé, a world of luxury and wealth immediately comes to mind, a state of mind that, although correct, is a reducer in the measure where he hides many other aspects, especially those of an artistic nature.
The story will begin with a reminder of its founder Peter Carl Fabergé, born in St. Petersburg in 1846 and died in Switzerland in 1920; German father, Danish mother and established in Russia, having studied jewelry in Europe and badimilated French techniques and tastes. He settles like a goldsmith in precious jewels in St. Petersburg, where very soon his talent is discovered by the tsar of all Russia, Alexander III, married to Maria Fedorovna of Danish origin.
Exquisite cinema, so simple.
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