Cousin Had Challenged His Capacity to Make a Will Shortly Before 2014 Death
After a two-year legal battle, the Oberlandesgericht in Munich has upheld the dismissal of Uta Werner’s challenge to the will made by Cornelius Gurlitt in 2014 that designated the Kunstmuseum Bern as his heir, including the bequest of his controversial painting collection. Less than six months after it was revealed in November 2013 that the Bavarian authorities had seized 1,280 objects from his Schwabing home in Munich, Gurlitt wrote a will that designated that his entire collection would go to the Swiss museum. Barring some extraordinary appeal, the bequest will now be final and the collection will go to Switzerland. While lifting considerable uncertainty about the fate of the collection as a whole, this development does not address the lack of clarity about the process by which the objects that are suspected of having been looted by the Nazis will be examined or returned.
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Bayern,
Hildebrand Gurlitt,
Cornelius Gurlitt,
Nazi-looted art in Munich,
SZ,
Uta Werner,
Nazi-looted art,
Oberlandesgericht,
Munich,
Sueddeutsche Zeitung,
Gurlitt,
NS Raubkunst,
Catrin Lorch,
Free State of Bavaria,
Kunstmuseum Bern,
Washington Principles,
Jörg Häntzschel,
Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB)
I was pleasantly surprised to learn today that Above the Law had published an article entitled “The 12 Awesome Law Blogs of 2014,” and right there at Number 1 was none other than the Art Law Report. As Colin O’Keefe and Cara McDonald wrote:
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the Auto Industry Blog,
Retail Law Advisor,
Trademarkology,
Bob Law’s Law Blog,
Stites & Harbison,
Nazi-looted art in Munich,
Walker O’Neill,
ownership intellectual property,
authentication,
the Goulston & Storrs Retail Group,
Above the Law,
Gray Reed & McGraw P.C.,
Gurlitt Collection,
BeLabor the Point,
Covington & Burling LLP,
R-T Specialty LLC,
Charles Sartain,
art,
Canna Law Blog,
Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Stit,
the Art Law Report,
Gurlitt,
Restitution,
Canna Law,
David Smyth,
Kevin LaCroix,
Colin O'Keefe,
Goulston & Storrs,
Cady Bar the Door,
First Amendment,
Hilary Bricken,
The D&O Diary,
Jim Walker,
Cruise Law News,
Harris Moure,
Foley & Lardner,
12 Awesome Law Blogs of 2014,
Brooks Pierce,
Inside Privacy,
Cara McDonald,
Energy and the Law
