Sigmund Freud’s chinese collection goes on display
In 1938 a collection of Chinese Jade carvings was taken out of Nazi-occupied Austria and brought to the UK, and now they are on display at the Freud Museum.
They are in fact part of the Sigmund Freud collection, as the famous psychoanalyst was a modest collector of antiquities for his home in Vienna.
Following the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938, it became increasingly obvious the Freud family was in danger, and Sigmund along with some of his family was able to negotiate escape from Vienna la
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