The Berlin museum of German history (Deutsches Historisches Museum) was opened on its website a database of paintings and objects of decorative art owned by Adolf Hitler, known as Lintsskaya Collection

Berlin museum of German history (Deutsches Historisches Museum) was opened on the site Database paintings and objects of decorative art owned by Adolf Hitler, known as Lintsskaya collection. On completion of a large research reports Spiegel Online.

4 731 exhibits (paintings, tapestries, furniture, porcelain) «Lintsskoy collections» should become the core of Hitler conceived Fuhrermuseum, «Museum Fuhrer». Within two years - from 1942 to 1944 - part of the collection exhibited in Linz, the Austrian city where Hitler spent childhood and adolescence. The exhibition was funded through a special fund Führer Sonderauftrag Linz ( «Special Project Linz»), where the royalties for his book «Mein Kampf».

After the war, photographed a collection of allies, of objects and paintings could be identified and returned to former owners, a number of proven lost about 1 700 are scattered in the German state museums.

On the comparison of photos and catalog collections Lintsskoy take years. In 2005 the art historian Hans Christian Lor the basic volume Das Braune Haus der Kunst ( «brown house art»), which showed that the portion of the work came in Lintsskuyu collection by lawful means. This book is the basis for Internet-project the Museum of German history.

Now, when the database is a collection available to the network, the researchers hope to obtain from the public new information on the origin of works of art in the collection of the Fuhrer.

Source: www.lenta.ru