The archives would have resulted in national and international research. A New York lawyer had claims on the image collected. “The investigation also showed the image, especially in light of competing claims, the complexity of the issues of provenance research and how elaborate the research design,” says Task Force Director Ingeborg Berg Green Merkel. The case was closed for the Task Force. “It is now up to the heirs, to decide on the way forward.”
million dollar art collection
But that’s more than three months after Gurlitt’s death the problem: the rightful owners brings this assessment basically nothing yet, because the matter of succession Gurlitt is still not released. The Kunstmuseum Bern, the controversial, died in May art collector has left his entire fortune and therefore his multimillion-dollar art collection, do not know yet whether it will inherit the legacy. The museum is expected to exploit the full statutory period of six months to decide how a spokeswoman said Tuesday. End of November running from the period.
A law firm in Zurich and their three law firms in Vienna, Berlin and Munich are based on museum information currently dealing with the inheritance case. “The aim of the current work is to provide a reliable basis for decision regarding acceptance or waiver of the succession,” it says in the recent Communication of the museum to the case Gurlitt.
“Seated Woman” by Henri Matisse as Nazi-looted art classified
a good two months
Before you had already classified the image “Seated Woman” by Henri Matisse as Nazi-looted art the Task Force. The painting that gave a face to the famous and controversial collection of Cornelius Gurlitt, was once stolen by the Nazis. Legal owners are the heirs of the Jewish art dealer Paul Rosenberg.
As with the advice on the “Seated Woman”, the Task Force now also the expertise on the left “Two riders” the Munich District Court as the competent probate. But what happens with the images, is in the hands of Gurlitt’s heirs.
Mountain Green Merkel: “obligation binds his heirs”
Gurlitt, the son of Hitler’s art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt, had just agreed before his death to recognize the Washington Principles. That is, he wanted to return looted by the Nazis images to their rightful owners. “This obligation binds his heirs,” Task Force Head Mountain Green-Merkel stressed again and again.
If choose the museum in late November to accept the legacy that also includes other works of art, of only at the resolution Gurlitt Schwabinger apartment were found, the claimant finally have a contact. If the museum refuse the inheritance, the District Court of Munich has to make under Gurlitt relatives to look for rightful heirs. Also on the court you can currently do nothing else than to keep the rebate and wait for the decision of Bern.
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