LC control no. | n 98108509 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Valland, Rose |
Birth date | 18981101 |
Death date | 19800918 |
Place of birth | Saint-Etienne-de-Saint-Geoirs (France) |
Place of death | Saint-Etienne-de-Saint-Geoirs (France) |
Affiliation | Jeu de paume (Gallery : France) |
Profession or occupation | Art museum curators |
Found in | Le front de l'art, c1997: t.p. (Rose Valland) WIkipedia, July 22, 2014 (Rose Antonia Maria Valland; born 1 November 1898 in Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, Isère, France; died 18 September 1980; art historian, a member of the French Resistance, a captain in the French military, and one of the most decorated women in French history. She secretly recorded details of the Nazi plundering of National French and private Jewish-owned art from France, and working with the French Resistance, saved thousands of works of art. Valland was assistant curator at the Jeu de Paume Museum; she died and is buried in her hometown of Saint-Etienne-de-Saint-Geoirs. The Association de la Mémoire de Rose Valland is now based in her hometown in her memory.) |
Associated language | fre |