COMING SOON:
PLUNDER & SURVIVAL
A new book from award-winning author Suzanne Loebl on how World War II changed the art world forever.
In Plunder & Survival, Suzanne Loebl tells the story of the Nazi looting of art in World War II Europe by looking at the human side: the people who lost the art, those who stole and monetized it for Hitler, and those who helped save it. Plunder & Survival has a particular focus on art that escaped to America. Loebl, who grew up in Nazi Germany and hid as a teenager in wartime Belgium, interweaves this history with stories of her and her family’s own survival, as well as their art. Plunder & Survival is written by the author of the acclaimed America’s Medicis: The Rockefellers and Their Astonishing Cultural Legacy and includes biographies and photographs of approximately 100 works of looted art that can be seen in museums throughout the United States.
Suzanne Loebl is the author of fourteen books, most recently America’s Medicis: The Rockefellers and Their Astonishing Cultural Legacy. Her next book, Plunder & Survival, on the migration of Nazi looted art to America, is forthcoming from Rowman and Littlefield. In 2012, Loebl received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She and her poodle, Viva, split their time between New York and Maine.
About Suzanne Loebl
“In this rich history, veteran art writer Suzanne Loebl reveals the stories behind a trove of art that had to travel across an ocean in order to survive… Plunder & Survival is a must-read and will undoubtedly change the way we look at art looted by the Nazi regime.”
—June Beallor, Founding Executive Director, USC Shoah Foundation; Oscar, Emmy, and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker
“Loebl blends an art connosseur’s passion with a sleuth’s dedication to the truth. She does us all a huge art-historical favor in this compelling and brilliant book.”
—Carl Little, author of Edward Hopper’s New England and The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent