According to a cousin of Cornelius Gurlitt, the reclusive collector knows where the Amber Room. If he is still alive at all in doubt than its neighbors. Meanwhile, U.S. diplomats require the publication of the paintings found

house of Cornelius Gurlitt in Salzburg
Source : reuters.com

Munich matter accumulates all new mysterious details. Reporters interviewed the Ekkehart Gurlitt (Ekkeheart Gurlitt), cousin Cornelius Gurlitt , whose apartment was found over 1400 works of art worth about 1 billion euros . The fact that the 65 -year-old said Ekkehart , a photographer from Barcelona , can be even more sensational than find a thousand pictures. Unless it's really true .

According cousin , Cornelius Gurlitt has repeatedly said that he knew where the Amber Room . Yes, yes , the same one the Amber Room , presented by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I to Tsar Peter I, stolen by the Nazis from Catherine Palace and transported to Konigsberg . The fate of the Amber Room - the biggest mystery over which beat more than one generation of scientists and adventurers. Collector hermit for decades to keep secret meeting of a thousand pictures - a good candidate for a person who might know something . According Ekkehart , Cornelius repeated, " before I die, I 'll tell everyone where she is, but not before ».

But where Cornelius himself and if he is alive ? His cousin refused to answer these important questions , not wanting to expose the relative risk. Ekkehart Gurlitt mentioned that his elderly father occasionally contacted by Cornelius , congratulating him on the New Year and Merry Christmas . But if they were talking in the past two years - is unknown. The most striking thing is that all these years, Ekkehart and his father knew about the art collection of Cornelius Gurlitt , but preferred not to get involved in this business, because their relatives did not do anything bad to them personally . "We are not greedy - we do not want to send him to hell " - said Ekkehart reporters. Nevertheless, they are ashamed of what they were doing an art dealer and his son and called them dirty money .

According to descriptions Ekkehart , Cornelius , whom he had last seen 30 years ago , was extremely introverted and strange man . "The little gray man , always immaculately dressed as an English gentleman , but his mind was not right," - recalled Ekkehart .

about the same opinions on Cornelius his former neighbors . We Gurlitt , in addition to the Munich apartment was still an old house in Salzburg, Austria . Around the house is now run in circles and photograph it from all angles journalists, but inside no one has got - you need a warrant. Nearby residents are worried that their neighbor hermit died and is still inside the house. Others think that it is stored in the second part of the meeting. Cornelius saw the Salzburg house for two years. And even when he was in the house , it looked like a ghost : no one was talking , he was seen only at the wheel of an old car from which he jumped out and ran to fling himself to his house, though the hopper . His neighbor Helmut Lyudsher (Helmut Ludescher) said Cornelius lived here 50 years, but over the years he has spoken to him only once. Lyudsher asked him three years ago, whether he is the owner of the house, but Cornelius refused to answer this question, we got into the car and drove away .

Meanwhile Salzburg house keeps its secret that American diplomats asked the German authorities , demanding the publication of the list of works of art from the Munich apartment. Recall that Munich Bavarian authorities at a press conference said that as long as they are not going to hang out all the images of works on the Internet to avoid false claims of restitution . However, according to the United States, it is significantly complicate the return process works heirs of Holocaust victims. Champion of their rights , the head of the organization of Holocaust Art Restitution Project Mazurovskii Marc (Marc Masurovsky) reported that he had found in the National Archives of Maryland documents relating to the collection Gurlitt . U.S. Special Forces Monuments Men, helps in the war and seek to return stolen works of art by the Nazis , come into contact with the dealer Hildebrant Gurlitt . In the search for them has got into the hands of more than one hundred works , which was listed as the owner of an art dealer Hildebrant Gurlitt . He convinced them that is their rightful owner , and the works were returned to him . Now, however, found that at least eight of these works were confiscated by the Nazis. Determine the origin of the other impossible as long as Bayern will not publish the works .

Prepared by Mary Onuchina , AI

Sources : dailymail.co.uk , artdaily.com , nytimes.com , reuters.com , artinvestment.ru