Emmanuelle Polack
Emmanuelle Polack (born 1965 in Paris ) is a French art historian and author.
Life
Emmanuelle Polack studied art history in Paris and Montreal. She worked as an assistant at the Musée des Monuments français and has been with the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA) in Paris since 2012 . She researches the German art theft in France during the German occupation from 1940 to 1944 and opened up Rose Valland's archived diaries. In 2017 she curated an exhibition in Paris on the art trade in France during the Vichy regime .
Polack also writes books for children and young people and wrote the historical scenario for an illustrated book about Sophie Scholl .
Fonts (selection)
- with ORT-France: Artisans et paysans du Yiddishland, 1921-1938 . Exhibition at the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme . Paris: Somogy, 2005
- with Catel Muller ; Claire Bouilhac: Rose Valland: Capitaine beaux-arts . Comic. Editions Dupuis, 2009
- with Emmanuel Cerisier: Rose Valland, l'espionne du musée du Jeu de Paume . Gulf Stream Editeur, 2009
- with Philippe Dagen : Les carnets de Rose Valland: Le pillage des collections privées d'œuvres d'art en France durant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale . Fage Éditions, 2011
- Les fresques de l'église Saint-Martin de Vic . Lancosme Éditeur, 2012
- Le peintre, la danseuse, le nazi . In: L'Histoire, 386, 2013
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Kako le terrible: d'après un véritable fait divers qui eut lieu au Jardin des plantes de Paris en 1903 . Geneva: La Joie de lire, 2013
- with Barroux (illustrations): Kako, the terrible . Babette Blume in Romanian. Munich: mixtvision Mediengesellschaft, 2015 ISBN 978-3-95854-017-0
- with Régis Hautière ; Francis Laboutique; Pierre wax ; Domnok: Sophie Scholl . Paris: Casterman, 2014
- "Ravalage" at the Hôtel Drouot , or the art of obtaining a clean provenance for works stolen in France during the second world war , in: Looters, Smugglers, and Collectors: provenance research and the market . Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86335-853-2 , pp. 35–44
- Traces of Matisse's Odalisque au tambourin during the Second World War . In: Pia Schölnberger; Sabine Loitfellner (Ed.): Salvage of cultural property during National Socialism . Vienna, 2016
Web links
- Literature by and about Emmanuelle Polack in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Emmanuelle Polack in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Polack, Emmanuelle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French art historian and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |