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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 ...
Altaussee, May 1945 after the removal of the eight 500 kg bombs at the Nazi stolen art repository. Between 1943 and 1945, the extensive complex of salt mines in Altaussee served as a huge repository for art stolen by the Nazis. It also contained holdings from Austrian collections.
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 ...
For Claire, a now-70-year-old Jewish French woman living in Paris, it was the beginning of a 13-year battle to track down her grandfather’s stolen art, including precious paintings by 19th ...
Missing for 80 years and thought lost, a painting banned by the Nazis has sold for almost £6m (€7m) at auction. Only seen before in black-and-white photos taken by the artist themself, Tanz im ...
From 1940 onwards, Nazi art dealers repeatedly invaded the Gutmann residence, ultimately coercing Friedrich in 1942 to send his father's collection to Munich. Friedrich and his wife Louise were deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1943, where they were murdered.
The Degenerate Art exhibition (German: Die Ausstellung "Entartete Kunst") was an art exhibition organized by Adolf Ziegler and the Nazi Party in Munich from 19 July to 30 November 1937. The exhibition presented 650 works of art, confiscated from German museums, and was staged in counterpoint to the concurrent Great German Art Exhibition . [ 1 ]