Son associated with the Nazi art-дилера vain hung all the sins?
ARTinvestment.RU   28 декабря 2015

So far only about 5 of 1 500 works of the collection Gurlitt we can say that they are of criminal origin. Observers are disappointed with the results of a two-year investigation

After two years of intense activity, the consequence of working on the case Gurlitt, could install only 5 works from one thousand five hundred meetings that clearly had been previously illegally seized by the Nazis and can be returned to the heirs of the former owners. Figure discouraging. It used to be that if not all, so the half works from "the Gurlitt trove" has a criminal origin. It was seized from Jewish families, or bought from them violently and at bargain prices.

About "the Gurlitt trove" readers ARTinvestment.RU most likely heard, we have wrote about the case. I will remind in a few words. In 2011, in Munich, in the apartment of an ordinary apartment building, in cluttered areas, on the shelves were found around 1,500 paintings and drawings, including some by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Emil Nolde, Franz Marc, max Beckmann, Paul Klee, Oscar Kokoschka, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, max Liebermann, Albrecht dürer and others. The owner was a quiet 80-летний old man — Cornelius Gurlitt, which came to the attention of authorities from resolved, but a suspiciously large sum of cash.

Where are the pictures? Most likely, most of — from the father, Hildebrand Gurlitt, whom the press called "art-дилером Hitler." Gurlitt-папа collected modernists, "degenerate art", and with the advent to power of the Nazis has brokered the sale of confiscated Jewish works abroad. Myself too that-то not forget to buy. Interestingly, my grandmother Hildebrand was Jewish, but it is clear to Goebbels thus needed professionals with connections, which is of non-Aryan origin, he sometimes turned a blind eye. After winning Gurlitt convinced the allies that his collection was killed in the bombing of Dresden, and in 1956, died in a car accident.

And the wife, and later his son kept the secret, periodically privately selling that-то with shelving. When the "Gurlitt hoard" was found, the press hung on the heir of all dogs. How does all this look from — is clear: once concealed, so all this bloody pictures of the Holocaust. Any excuse son not worked. Moreover, some-что of the charges even proved. For example, the canvas by max Liebermann was returned to the nephew of the pre-war owner and the painting immediately sold at Sotheby's. And this was to be only the first swallow. Offhand called the figure, that not less than 500 artworks subject to restitution. And suddenly such a strange result. Only five proven cases of criminal origin to 1500 in two years of investigation. Unexpectedly.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Source: thelocal.de

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