There were reports over the weekend that the Gurlitt Task Force, currently reviewing the provenance of more than 900 of the 1,280 works of art seized from Cornelius Gurlitt’s apartment, may not complete that review within the year reportedly set out in the agreement between Bavaria and Gurlitt before he died. There is still confusion about whether the Task Force was indeed foreshadowing a missed deadline (the agreement was in April, so the notion that the review would continue “into 2015” is not necessarily inconsistent with completing its task within one year), but assuming it was, what happens then?
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Topics:
Focus,
Schwabinger Kunstfund,
Hildebrand Gurlitt,
Cornelius Gurlitt,
Gurlitt Task Force,
Nazi-looted art,
Gurlitt Collection,
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act,
Commission for Looted Art in Europe,
Entartete Kunst,
Anne Webber,
Restitution,
Der Spiegel,
World War II,
degenerate art,
Kunstmuseum Bern,
verschollene Kunst,
Münchner Kunstfund
It has now been one year since Focus magazine in Germany broke the Cornelius Gurlitt story on November 3, 2013. Looking back at the history of the case as it has unfolded since then, the overriding theme has been difficulty in obtaining accurate information about the current state of affairs. The appointed Task Force has made only two recommendations, and the status of the bequest to the Kunstmuseum Bern is still up in the air. And nobody seems remotely pleased.
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Topics:
Focus,
Schwabinger Kunstfund,
Hildebrand Gurlitt,
Cornelius Gurlitt,
Drefsden,
Gurlitt Task Force,
Nazi-looted art,
Gurlitt Collection,
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act,
Lex Gurlitt,
Entartete Kunst,
Salzburg,
Bundesrat,
Restitution,
Der Spiegel,
World War II,
Foreign Sovereign Immunities,
Switzerland,
degenerate art,
Kunstmuseum Bern,
verschollene Kunst,
Münchner Kunstfund,
Ronald Lauder
Just days after attorneys for Cornelius Gurlitt floated the idea of discussions with survivors and heirs for a possible resolution to the questions about the artworks found in his apartment two years ago that are suspected of having been stolen or sold under duress during the Nazi era (and after the prosecutor was ordered to make a full list available to journalists), the prosecutor in charge of the investigation categorically rejected the possibility of any deal with Gurlitt.
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Topics:
Erhard Göpel,
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
Stuttgart,
Wiesbaden,
FAZ,
Focus,
Hildebrand Gurlitt,
Cornelius Gurlitt,
Augsburg,
Amsterdam,
Willi Korte,
Schwabinger Kunstfund. Kunstfund München,
Marvin Fishman,
Reinhard Nemetz,
Gurlitt Task Force,
Germany,
Fall Gurlitt,
The Art Newspaper,
Gurlitt Collection,
Max Beckmann,
Karl Buchholz,
Robert Looker,
Entartete Kunst,
Bar Braun,
Beutekunst,
Schwabing,
Magdeburg,
LACMA,
Ersessene Kunst,
Harvard,
Gurlitt,
Bavaria,
Busch-Reisinger,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
degenerate art,
the Central Collecting Point,
Augsburger Staatsanwalt,
www.lostart.de,
Nazi art,
Sotheby's,
Roman Norbert Ketterer,
Raubkunst,
Verjährung,
Mayen Beckmann,
National Gallery Berlin,
verschollene Kunst,
De-Nazification,
Selbstbildnis,
Self Portrait
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit restored last week claims by heirs of Lilly Cassirer against the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection for the return of the Camille Pissarro painting Rue St. Honoré, après-midi, êffet de pluie.
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Topics:
Nuremberg laws,
Schwabinger Kunstfund,
Cornelius Gurlitt,
Lilly Cassirer,
California Code of Civil Procedure § 338(c),
Dorothy Nelson,
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection,
Julius Schoeps,
Rue St. Honoré après-midi êffet de pluie,
Claude Cassirer,
Von Saher v. Norton Simon,
de Csepel,
Jacques Goudstikker,
California Code of Civil Procedure § 354.3,
Gurlitt Collection,
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act,
Hans Sachs,
Von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasaden,
Madame Soler,
Bundesgerichtshof,
Hildebrand Gurlit,
Entartete Kunst,
Hans-Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza,
Hungarian National Gallery,
Nazis,
Munich,
Deutches Historisches Museum,
FSIA,
Preemption,
Gurlitt,
Harry Pregerson,
Restitution,
field preemption,
Marei Von Saher,
Herzog collection,
Bavaria,
Claudia Seger-Thomschitz,
Looted Art,
World War II,
Foreign Sovereign Immunities,
Pinakothek der Moderne,
degenerate art,
Altmann v. Republic of Austria,
578 F.3d 1016,
Freistaat Bayern,
beschlagnahmte Kunst,
Camille Pissarro,
Kim McLane Wardlaw,
Nürnberger Gesetze,
Raubkunst,
Museum of Fine Arts Boston,
Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection,
verschollene Kunst,
Kunstfund München
