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Pauline Baer, ​​between secrets and unspoken

2020-10-16T19:40:17.613Z


PORTRAIT - In search of works stolen by the Nazis from her great-grandfather, she recounts this intimate quest in a book.


While writing

La Collection disparue

(Stock), Pauline was afraid of disappointing her family, afraid of arrogating to herself the right to speak on behalf of others, or of

"taking the upper hand"

over a story that does not belong only to to her.

That's all Pauline Baer, ​​to ask a lot of questions.

To doubt.

Her book, a breathtaking quest recounting the fatal fate of her great-grandfather's art collection, however demonstrates something else: the young woman has achieved a feat, in more ways than one.

Until then, we knew the Baers through their famous brothers - Julien, the musician, Édouard, the actor - but Pauline has just made her own way among the siblings.

Writer and director of documentaries, Pauline was visibly in need of projects six years ago.

The Strauss affair came into her life without her noticing - at a time, no doubt, when she was able to hear it.

"Did you know there was something fishy about the Strauss sale?

" One of

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Source: lefigaro

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