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Rothschild collection to be sold
LONDON (AP) — The gilded objects,
seized by the Nazis during World War II
and only recently returned to the illus
trious Rothschild family, transformed
the shabby auction showroom into a
lavish drawing room of fin-de-siecle Vi
enna.
The collection amassed by barons
Nathaniel and Albert von Rothschild is
expected to fetch more than $40 million
when it goes on sale Thursday.
“There are very few names as big as
Rothschild,” Alex Hope, who organized
the sale for Christie’s, said. “There will
be very few collections that will rival this
in importance.”
The 250 paintings, pieces of furniture
and decorative objects evoke another era
— a time when the Rothschilds, scions
of the Austrian arm of the 250-year-old
banking dynasty, were the foremost col
lectors in Europe.
“There will be very few
collections that will rival
this in importance/'
— Alex Hope
Sale organizer
Their descendants are selling the trea
sures because they no longer have opu
lent homes in which to display the
pieces. While the Nazis protected the
family’s art collection, they ruined the
Rothschild’s financially^ destroying their
factories and investments.
Photographs of Nathaniel Roth
schild’s home in Vienna, included in the
auction catalog, demonstrate the dra
matic change in the family s fortunes
since the first half of the century.
One photo shows a painting by the
Dutch master Franz Hals, Portrait of
Rieleman Roosterman,’ valued by
Christie’s at $4 million to $5.5 million.
It was just one of many precious objects
in the room, competing for attention with
lavish furniture and Oriental carpets.
After the Nazis seized the Roth
schilds’ property in 1938, the art re
mained hidden, mostly in salt mines, un
til it was recovered by American soldiers
after the war.
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Serb Cabinet minister was charged Wednesday by the U.N.
war crimes tribunal with allegedly helping orchestrate an
ethnic purge of non-Serbs from parts of Bosnia in 1992.
Radislav Brdjanin, 51, is the most senior Bosnian Serb
civilian official yet to be brought to the Yugoslav tribunal
for trial. A lawmaker in the Bosnian Serb parliament, he
was charged with persecution — a crime against hu
manity. He was arrested Thesday in the northern Bosn
ian city of Banja Luka.
Prosecutors say Brdjanin led a campaign aimed at dri
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Sanski Most in northwest Bosnia. The plan involved first
pressuring non-Serbs to flee by creating "impossible con
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP)
— Raising fears of street violence.
Northern Ireland’s conservative
Protestant brotherhood announced
surprise plans Wednesday to pa
rade 20,000 members near a hos
tile Catholic part of Belfast.
The Orange Order said members
of its Belfast lodges would march
in solidarity Monday to the spot
where British authorities have al
ready barred a much smaller group
of Orangemen from parading past
the hostile Catholic enclave of Low
er Ormeau. Orange leaders insisted
that their mass rally — just across
Belfast’s narrow Lagan River from
the Catholic area — would avoid
confrontation with police lines.
The area’s Catholic protest leader,
Gerard Rice, denounced as “absolute
madness” a plan he said would “in
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this community.” He said Orange
leaders could not control such a
large group on what is already
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