Wu Tianyuan carefully put "Portrait of a Youth" back in the box, then opened the other boxes and took a cursory inventory, and the rest of the boxes were oil paintings, drawings, watercolors, and prints. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

These works include Monet, a French painter and one of the representatives and founders of Impressionism, Schiller, Cézanne, Matisse, Otto, Van Gogh and other Austrian genius painters, as well as some Nazi considered degenerate art, Renault, Picasso, Chagall and other modernist masters of famous paintings.

That's a lot, about 1,600 of them!

In contrast to a secret German official report, by July 1944, 137 railway wagons had been loaded on antiquities transported from Western Europe to Germany. There are 4,174 boxes, 20,973 pieces, and 10,890 paintings.

At that time, Goering collected 5,000 of the world's famous paintings, and the huge Carlin Palace still could not contain the famous paintings plundered by Goering, because the walls of the Carlin Palace were full of famous paintings, there was no space left, so some paintings could only be hung behind others.

Hitler's stash in the Otto Sei salt mine on the outskirts of Linz for the Supermuseum includes around 6,577 masterpieces. The 1,600 paintings are a small fraction of the famous paintings that the Nazis plundered all of Europe.

Many of these paintings have been featured in more than 40 albums in the National Archives of the United States, which are photographs of works of art looted by German forces in occupied countries during World War II, which were exclusively for Hitler's perusal. He selected the artworks and shipped them back to museums in Germany.

Falling artworks refer to Impressionist, Cubist, and Modernist paintings, including paintings by Kandinsky, Otto, Renault, Van Gogh, Picasso, Chagall and other masters. The reason for the label 'falling art' is related to Hitler's personal aesthetic orientation.

Hitler had hoped to become a painter, but in middle school, Hitler was only good at free painting, and failed mathematics and natural history, which prevented him from graduating, and when he was young, he failed to apply for the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts twice.

After Hitler came to power, Hitler tolerated the most post-impressionist modernist art, calling modernist artists "madmen and decadents", proof of brain confusion, anyone who painted the sky green and the field blue should be castrated, and their works were "deformed scribbles", a degenerate art style.

A catalogue called 'entartetekunst' was compiled in 1941-1942 and 'entartetekunst' was translated as Falling Art.

Some of these paintings were exhibited in museums and galleries in Germany, the Kunsthalle Berlin, the National Gallery in Paris, and the Musée de Jodepámé in France during and before World War II.

Even many of the famous paintings here are treasures of some famous museums in Europe, such as Raphael's "Portrait of a Youth" that I just saw.

There are also sketches, drafts, and 2 oil paintings of the Mona Lisa in detail by Leonardo da Vinci, study of the last supper of Leonardo da Vinci, study of the side figure and two riders, apostolic head and buildings, study of the proportions of the Vitruvian man, star lilies and other plants, study of the skulls of the characters, etc.

There is also an oil painting of "Worship of the Three Sages", which is based on the story of the three wise men of the East who came to worship when Jesus was born in the Bible. The painting depicts three sages visiting the newborn Christ and his mother Mary.

There are 36 people and 11 animals in the painting, one of which is a shepherd standing alone at the right end of the painting, with the Madonna, the Holy Child and the Three Wise Men forming a stable composition of a triangle.

The surrounding crowd is surrounded by excited gestures, like a whirlpool of people, and the background is drawn in precise perspective to create a strong contrast with the galloping horse caravan.

This is the work of Leonardo da Vinci's artistic style, the most important painting of his life, and the treasure of the 15 works in existence.

Regardless of its artistic value, artistic style, and artistic innovation, the artistic innovation expressed in the painting is comparable to the famous painting "Mona Lisa" in the Louvre Museum in Paris, one of the three treasures of the Louvre.

Here is the finished manuscript of Leonardo da Vinci's "Pilgrimage of the Three Sages", and there is an unfinished manuscript, which is in the collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, which is a treasure of the town.

It is conceivable that Leonardo da Vinci's sketches, drafts, and Mona Lisa Part 2 will shock the global art world and trigger a frenzy in the international art world.

"Yes, it's more than enough for the art center to run a da Vinci art museum!"

Wu Tianyuan nodded with satisfaction, each of the more than 1,600 paintings is a famous painting, a fine European painting artwork, and the artistic value is very high. If you take it to the auction house and go to the auction, you can easily auction hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions of dollars.

Even the paintings of masters such as Van Gogh, Manet, Cézanne, Picasso, Chagall and so on can be sold for more than hundreds of millions of dollars, as for Leonardo da Vinci's sketches, drafts, and Mona Lisa partial paintings, "The Pilgrimage of the Three Sages", Raphael's "Portrait of a Youth", can no longer be measured by ordinary value, priceless treasures, priceless and priceless.

These paintings are part of the finest selection of the millions looted by Hitler, Goering, and the Nazi elite from museums and art galleries in European cities.

Among the plundered European artworks, the Germans divided them into several categories: first, for the choice of the leaders, second, for those that could be used to complete the collection of the Reichmarshal, third, for the anti-Semitic think tanks of Nazi thinkers, and fourth, for works of art left for German museums. The rest can be left for French museums to sell on the market.

Obviously, these more than 1,600 paintings belong to the first, second, and fourth categories, and those selected by the leaders to complete the objects in the Marshal's collection and leave them for the German Museum.

"And the box?"

Wu Tianyuan found some boxes stacked in the corner, about only a few dozen, stacked in the corner, very inconspicuous.

I opened the box and checked it, and the box contained some paper documents, many of which were marked "top secret". Labels for 'confidential', 'secret'.

This is a design drawing of the rocket, drawn with a pencil. Next to some data, annotations, lines, and at the top there is a string of German letters.

Wu Tianyuan then opened other boxes, jet fighter design drawings, technical data, super combat vehicle design drawings and technical data, long-range artillery design drawings and technical data, infrared night vision, etc.

Although these technologies, V1, V2 missiles, rocket technology, super tanks, are now obsolete, they were very, very ahead of the Soviet Union and the Allies at that time in the late stages of World War II.

As soon as World War II ended, both the United States and the Soviet Union were anxious to master Germany's V1 and V2 missiles and rocket technology. After a fierce contest, the United States formed a commando team and launched a very famous project in world history code-named 'Paperclip'.

This set of drawings at the end of World War II will definitely make the United States and the Soviet Union. Britain, France and other victorious countries are in a bloody battle, even if they send troops to fight a big battle, the hundreds of tons of gold in the treasure room may not be as valuable as this set of drawings.

However, now this set of drawings, the technical data is of no use at all, and these technologies are very backward and can only be displayed in museums. (To be continued.) )