In the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt — collector-recluse, who for dozens of years has secretly been meeting his father who collaborated with the Nazi art dealer Hildebrandt Gurlitt, — recently discovered and sculpture. One of the sculptures are supposed to be the work of Edgar Degas, and the second, marble, attributed to Auguste Rodin. When the authorship and origin of the works will be explained, will publish them on the web www.lostart.de to them could handle the heirs of the former vladelcev@

Sculpture attributed to Degas and Rodin, were found after the death of Cornelius Gurlitt in may this year. Shortly before his death he agreed to cooperate with the German authorities for the return of works from the collection of his father's rightful owners. By will Gurlitt, all long-suffering congregation he was sent to the Art Museum of the city of Bern. According to the German government, from about 970 1406 works found in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt, could be confiscated by the Nazis from private and public collections. Of these, approximately 590 works were allegedly taken away from private collectors, but also about 380 — withdrawn from public museums. The collection includes works by Picasso, Claude Monet and many others; especially a lot of works by authors whose legacy was called the Nazi "degenerate" and confiscated from museums and private collections. The entire the entire collection can cost up to 1 billion Euro@

Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: artdaily.com, artinvestment.ru