Cornelius Gurlitt in Munich
ARTinvestment.RU   11 ноября 2013

Journalists of the newspaper Paris Match tracked Cornelius Gurlitt - Owner 1406 works of art - not far from his Munich apartment

After the sensational information about discovery in Munich colossal in size and quality of the collection spread all over the world , a major issue was the location of his owner. Cornelius Gurlitt , whose apartment was found by Picasso , Matisse, Durer and Marc Chagall , like evaporate . At the press conference, the authorities have not informed where the old collector . There were even rumors about his possible death . Now they fortunately dispelled . Journalists of the newspaper Paris Match tracked Cornelius Gurlitt - Owner 1406 works of art - not far from his Munich apartment .

As it turned out , all the while an elderly gentleman Gurlitt not leave the Schwabing district of Munich, where his apartment . Collector, dressed in an elegant gray coat , tracked down the local supermarket. Cornelius refused to answer reporters' questions , he said only "a little shaky " voice that "approval , running with a bad hand, this is the worst of what could be ." In the words of Paris Match, at this point, his blue eyes were " fear and anger ." Rather, Cornelius Gurlitt still lives in the same apartment on the fifth floor , where the customs police during a raid in February 2012 were withdrawn in 1406 works of art - paintings, drawings and Draw graphics . On the contrary doorbell still bore the name of Cornelius Gurlitt , but it does not open the door when he called .

This weekend there were reports in the German edition Focus and Bild am Sonntag , citing the customs police that there were 315 works "exclusively from the state and city museums or museums in the German federal states ", which now can not lay claim to them .

prepared by Mary Onuchina , AI

Sources : parismatch.com , bloomberg.com , spiegel.de , artinvestment.ru