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A Swiss Museum Will Relinquish Ownership of 29 Works From Gurlitt Trove
The vast collection, which includes pieces by Max Beckmann, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, was originally amassed by a German dealer in Nazi-looted art.
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The Last of 14 Definitively Nazi-Looted Artworks in the Gurlitt Trove Is Restituted
The remaining work was returned by the estate of Cornelius Gurlitt, son of an art dealer who built a private collection in the process of helping the Nazis sell stolen art.
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How Should We Look at Cornelius Gurlitt's Trove of Nazi-Looted Art?
Gurlitt: Status Report, An Art Dealer in Nazi Germany makes a long-hidden art collection with a dark provenance accessible to the public.
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Will Cornelius Gurlitt's Collection Turn Up at Documenta 14?
Documenta 14 director Adam Szymczyk wants to show the collection of late art hoarder Cornelius Gurlitt as part of the quinquennial exhibition's next edition in 2017.
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Criminals Love Weapons, Drugs, and … Art
Art theft is the third-highest grossing criminal trade in the world, preceded only by drugs and weapons. This claim comes from a smart, extensive Newsweek article covering a three-day conference held at New York University Law School last month called "Art Crime and Cultural Heritage: Fakes, Forgeri
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Cornelius Gurlitt, Hoarder of Nazi-Era Art, Dies [UPDATED]
Just a month after reaching an agreement with the German government, Cornelius Gurlitt, the octogenarian who was hoarding one of the biggest caches of Nazi-era art discovered since World War II, has died.
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Germany and Munich Art Hoarder Announce Agreement on Nazi-Era Trove
The German government and the octogenarian who last fall was discovered to be hiding a trove of nearly 1,500 Nazi-era artworks have reached an agreement about the future of the collection.
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Nazi-Era Munich Trove Includes 39 Toulouse-Lautrec Works
Among the 1,406 artworks discovered throughout the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt are 39 pieces by French painter and printmaker Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The works are all drawings and prints.
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See 25 Artworks from Newly Discovered Nazi-era Art Stash
In an about-face, the German government announced Monday a new, accelerated policy for the 1,406 paintings discovered in a 2011 raid on Cornelius Gurlitt's Munich apartment, promising a task force and a speedy release of information about the cache.
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1,500 Works of Nazi-Looted Art Discovered in Munich
First reported in the German media, news broke yesterday of an estimated €1bn ($1.35bn) of Nazi-seized art uncovered during a raid on an octogenarian's Munich apartment in 2011. A total of 1,500 works — paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Max Beckmann, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka