An extraordinary memoir of fortune, fraud, and the master of modern art
Art dealer Stan Lauryssens made millions in modern art, but he sold only one name: Salvador Dalí. The surrealist painter’s work was a hot commodity for the newly rich, investors, and shady businessmen looking to launder their black-market cash. Stan didn’t mind looking the other way; he just hoped the buyers would look the other way as well. The artworks he sold came from some very questionable sources, but he soon discovered that the shadiest source of all was Dalí himself. 
 The more successful Stan became, the closer he came to Dalí, until he found himself living next door to the aging artist, in the Catalonian hills. While hiding from Interpol’s detectives, Stan spent his time with the artists, musicians, business associates, and eccentrics who surrounded Dalí. He learned about Dalí’s secret history, the studio of artists who produced his work, and the moneymaking machine that kept Dalí’s extravagant lifestyle afloat long after his creativity began to flounder. 
 Dalí &amp; I offers a behind-the-scenes view of the commerce and conspiracy that go hand in hand in the international art world, written by a man who has been to the top only to discover that it’s not so different from the bottom.

Dali & I: The Surreal Story

Arts & Photography

Lauryssens, Stan

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Thomas Dunne Books

When Hitler and the Nazis swept to power, Van den Bruck realized Hitler had become the personification of the violent dynamism he had recommended and foresaw the horrors to come.

The Man Who Invented the Third Reich: The Life and Times of Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Sutton Pub Ltd

The man who created the concept of the Third Reich, had a great influence upon Hitler, and was horrified at what he unleashed This remarkable biography of the key figure in the formation of the political ideals behind the Third Reich charts the progress of a political activist as his theories became reality, and the repercussions that led to his suicide. Arthur Moeller van der Bruck’s seminal work Das Dritte Reich (The Third Reich) was Hitler’s main inspiration, and it was the authoritarian state hypothesized by Moeller that Hitler implemented, taking his recommendations of violent dynamism to achieve increasingly his own aims. Moeller was able to predict the atrocities to come, and racked with guilt, this recognition of the monster he had created led to his suicide. Lauryssen explores the political and artistic whirlpools of Weimar Germany in Moeller’s time and using personal interviews with contempories such as Kafka, Munch, and Dietrich he gives exceptional insight into both Moeller’s life and this fascinating period of political change.

The Man Who Invented the Third Reich

The History Press

Dali en ik (Dutch Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Van Halewyck

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