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German and Swiss galleries to display Gurlitt's Nazi-era treasure trove
Source: The Guardian
German and Swiss galleries to display Gurlitt's Nazi-era treasure trove
Cornelius Gurlitt’s Nazi-era art hoard to be exhibited simultaneously
this winter in Bern and Bonn
Kate Connolly in Berlin
Tuesday 5 April 2016 17.31 BST
Art galleries in Germany and Switzerland are due to exhibit a priceless collection of paintings and sketches discovered two years ago in the home of a German recluse.
The managers of the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, and the Kunstmuseum Bern said their exhibitions would run simultaneously and would put the prized works in a “historically and scientifically contextualised framework”, in an attempt to shed light on the origin of many of the pieces, some of which were looted from their Jewish owners by the Nazis.
The discovery between 2012 and 2014 of the 1,500 works, including paintings by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Max Liebermann, caused an international sensation. They were found in the Munich and Salzburg apartments of Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a Nazi-era art dealer who was commissioned by Adolf Hitler to help seize works from museums and Jewish collectors.
Many of the works are believed to have been looted or have belonged to owners who were forced to sell them far below their market value.
Gurlitt left his collection to the Kunstmuseum in Bern on his death in 2014, aged 81.
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Cornelius Gurlitt’s Nazi-era art hoard to be exhibited simultaneously
this winter in Bern and Bonn
Kate Connolly in Berlin
Tuesday 5 April 2016 17.31 BST
Art galleries in Germany and Switzerland are due to exhibit a priceless collection of paintings and sketches discovered two years ago in the home of a German recluse.
The managers of the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, and the Kunstmuseum Bern said their exhibitions would run simultaneously and would put the prized works in a “historically and scientifically contextualised framework”, in an attempt to shed light on the origin of many of the pieces, some of which were looted from their Jewish owners by the Nazis.
The discovery between 2012 and 2014 of the 1,500 works, including paintings by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Max Liebermann, caused an international sensation. They were found in the Munich and Salzburg apartments of Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of a Nazi-era art dealer who was commissioned by Adolf Hitler to help seize works from museums and Jewish collectors.
Many of the works are believed to have been looted or have belonged to owners who were forced to sell them far below their market value.
Gurlitt left his collection to the Kunstmuseum in Bern on his death in 2014, aged 81.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/05/german-and-swiss-art-galleries-display-cornelius-gurlitt-nazi-art