German and Swiss galleries to display Gurlitt's Nazi-era treasure trove

[BlueMTexpat]

Cornelius Gurlitt’s Nazi-era art hoard to be exhibited simultaneously this winter in Bern and Bonn

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/05/german-and-swiss-art-galleries-display-cornelius-gurlitt-nazi-art

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.

Experts are still trying to determine the provenance of several items. But of 500 works suspected of being looted, only five have been identified as stolen so far.

[haikugal]

1. Most of which , if not ALL of which, were looted from murdered families!

Disgusting fucking people!

[BlueMTexpat]

2. Experts are still determining the

provenance of around 500 works. Yes, it is disgusting. That whole era is disgusting and dehumanizing. As such, it should never be forgotten.

But these artworks have only recently been discovered/ Perhaps the exhibitions will end up providing information that can lead to at least some more being restored to relatives of families who were violated like this even before paying the ultimate price.

[Sunlei]

3. ALL looted Art taken by hitlers main commissioned looter. disgusting of Germany & Swiss to keep it.

probably never 'find' most 'owners' as they are dead. That art should ALL go to a Holocaust museum for display.

[haikugal]

4. Totally. It's looted from murdered families...what's not understood about that?

Where's the Nazi gold? It just never ends.

[Behind the Aegis]

5. This was the first episode of a Netfilx series "Raiders of the Lost Art."

It was a bit dry, but very informative!

There was so much stolen from the Jews and never returned. It is also the same for many gay people, most of whom, after being liberated from the camps, were sent to prison because they were still considered "criminals."

Seventy years later and the past still reaches out to remind us of the horrors and injustice reigned down on people for simply being who they were.

[bemildred]

6. +1 nt