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The collection attracted international interest in 2013 when it was announced as a sensational 2012 "Nazi loot discovery" by the media as a result of actions by officials of Augsburg in Cornelius Gurlitt's apartment in Schwabing, Munich, investigating Gurlitt on suspicion (later shown to be unfounded) of possible tax evasion.
Pieces of art looted by the Nazis can still be found in Russian/Soviet [49] and American institutions: the Metropolitan Museum of Art revealed a list of 393 paintings that have gaps in their provenance during the Nazi Era, the Art Institute of Chicago has posted a listing of more than 500 works "for which links in the chain of ownership for the ...
The OSS Art Looting Intelligence Unit investigated Weinmüller in 1946 and considered him to be a Red Flag Name for Nazi looting. [9] Despite evidence that Weinmüller was deeply implicated in Nazi looting of the Jews, he escaped prosecution, and was classified as only a "follower" (Mitlaufer) in the Munich denazification process in June 1948.
During his abbreviated lifetime, a cabaret performer named Fritz Grünbaum amassed a trove of artwork — more than 400 pieces, including 80 sketches and paintings by the Austrian expressionist ...
The chalk-painting "Bord de Mer," by Claude Monet, created in 1865. The painting was stolen from Adalbert Parlagi by the Nazis in 1940, and returned to his descendants by the New Orleans FBI ...
In June 2021 Bavarian officials refused to refer the dispute to the national commission created to review claims of art lost in the Nazi era. [93] Edvard Munch "A summer's night on the beach" (1902) Alma Mahler-Werfel [94] claim against sterreichische Galerie Belvedere [95] Restituted to Mahler-Werfel heirs after long battle [95] [96] [97 ...
In 1940, the Nazis seized a Claude Monet pastel and seven other works of art from Adalbert "Bela" and Hilda Parlagi, a Jewish couple forced to flee their Vienna home after Austria was annexed into ...
While this task force of art dealers and museum specialists were able to retrieve many of the stolen works of art, there are still many paintings that have yet to be found. [1] In 2013, Cornelius Gurlitt , a son of one of Hitler's art dealers, was found with an apartment full of paintings which his father had kept from both the Nazis and the ...