Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel, leader of the newly formed federal “Schwabing Art Find” taskforce, announced plans to release information about 590 additional works found in the apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt, after the posting earlier this week of 25 works at www.lostart.de. Meanwhile, the heirs of Max Ernst have publicly disclosed (through their attorney Jürgen Wilhelm in Cologne) their claim to certain of the works in the Gurlitt find. The federal authorities appear to be gaining the upper hand for disclosure against the tax investigators in Bavaria who initially seized the collection, which was not a foregone conclusion.
Read More
Topics:
Cologne,
veschollene Kunst,
the Lion Tamer,
Lempertz,
Cornelius Gurlitt,
Schwabinger Kunstfund. Kunstfund München,
Max Liebermann,
Köln,
Gurlitt Collection,
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act,
Hildebrand Gurlit,
Entartete Kunst,
Nazis,
Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel,
Hermann Goring,
Michael Hulton,
FSIA,
Gurlitt,
Restitution,
conversion,
Looted Art,
World War II,
degenerate art,
Altmann v. Republic of Austria,
Löwenbändiger,
Raubkunst,
Alfred Flechteim,
Jürgen Wilhelm,
Max Ernst
The Bavarian prosecutor held a press conference today to discuss the revelation this weekend in Focus that nearly 1,400 paintings had been found in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt two years ago, after he aroused suspicion by bringing a large amount of cash back into Germany from Switzerland in 2010. This continues to shape up as the biggest restitution story in decades, perhaps ever. Among the key updates provided today by Sigfried Köble and Reinhard Nemetz, the customs official and prosecutor in charge, respectively:
Read More
Topics:
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
unbekannte Meisterwerke,
Focus,
Hildebrand Gurlitt,
Alfred Flechtheim,
the Lion Tamer,
Cornelius Gurlitt,
Reinhard Nemetz,
Anne Weber,
Gurlitt Collection,
Max Beckmann,
Bloomberg,
Otto Dix,
Commission for Looted Art in Europe,
Art Market Monitor,
Auktionshaus Lempertz,
Entartete Kunst,
Meike Hoffmann,
Marc Chagall,
Entdeckung verschollener Kunst,
beschlagnahmte Bilder,
Kunsthistorikerin,
Sigfried Köble,
Restitution,
Der Spiegel,
World War II,
Süddeutsche Zeitung,
Erben,
Raubkunst-Bildern,
Löwenbändiger,
München,
Nazi Raubkunst
