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This poster advertises the Exhibition of German-Owned Works of Art, held at the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point, February–March, 1946. It is lent by Margaret Farmer Planton. 

The poster is approximately 17 by 11 inches, and displays a straightforward design of black text on brown paper. The upper half is in English, the lower half a German translation. The English text reads: 

“Exhibition of German-owned works of art of international importance 

At the Wiesbaden Collecting Point Landesmuseum, Rheinstrasse / Kaiserstrasse (entrance through the rear of the museum) 

Hours 1400 to 1630 Daily 

Dates 11 February to 25 March 1946”

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This poster advertises the Exhibition of German-Owned Works of Art, held at the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point, February–March, 1946. It is lent by Margaret Farmer Planton. 

After the departure of the “Berlin 202,” wrote Farmer, morale was low at the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point. To show the German people the care that was being taken with their collections, Farmer decided to organize exhibitions drawing from the many works of art still housed in the CCP. 

The first show, Exhibition of German-Owned Works of Art, was an enormous success, drawing thousands of visitors, German citizens and American GIs alike, during the months it was open to the public. One of the most popular objects on view was the famous bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti (ca. 1345 BCE) from Berlin’s Pergamon Museum. Like the “202,” the sculpture was recovered from the salt mine at Merkers. The CCP exhibitions continued after Farmer’s departure from Wiesbaden and were an important step in building relations between occupying American forces and the German citizenry during the period of denazification and the early days of Germany’s recovery.

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