About the Author

Dr Walter Cohen was a respected art historian and curator in Dusseldorf, Germany. As a patron of the Avant-garde and private collector, he was able to create a large collection of Expressionist art in the 1920s. Soon after, the National Socialists declared his collection "degenerate," like so many other pieces and collections of the time. In 1942, Cohen was hunted and murdered in the Dachau concentration camps due to his Jewish ancestry.Despite being hidden throughout the course of World War II, Cohen's collection was nearly completely destroyed. His wife Margarete Umbach and her second husband did their best to reconstruct the collection after the war ended.Cohen published works on subjects including August Macke and Rheinland artistry