The decision’s official – the Kunstmuseum Bern takes on the difficult Gurlitt heritage. This was confirmed by the President of the Board of the Museum, Christoph Schäublin. However, the dispute over the inheritance is not over yet. Also Gurlitt’s cousin Uta Werner lays claim to the estate
The Kunstmuseum Bern has the controversial legacy of art dealers -Sohns Cornelius Gurlitt accepted. With the acceptance of the inheritance of the Foundation Council President signed the museum, Christoph Schäublin, the culture commissioner of the federal government, Monika Grütters (CDU) and the Bavarian Justice Minister Winfried construction back in Berlin on Monday an agreement on how to deal with the estate Gurlitt. This stipulates that remain Nazi-looted art or is under suspicion of stolen art works from the collection in Germany. The goal is that all plants will clarify the origin.
More than 1200 works in Schwabing apartment
The deceased in May Cornelius Gurlitt had his collection of paintings bequeathed to the Kunstmuseum Bern. The pictures are from the legacy of his father, which died in 1956, art collector and former museum director Hildebrand Gurlitt, who had acquired a huge collection during the Nazi era, partly from the possession of Jewish citizens.
His son had the Artworks long hidden from the public, only in February 2012, investigators discovered in his apartment Schwabinger more than 1,200 paintings, including works by Chagall and Matisse. Hundreds more pictures were in his Salzburg home
dispute Gurlitt heritage. District Court confirmed inheritance application
The district court in Munich has confirmed the application of Cornelius Gurlitt’s cousin on a certificate of inheritance. He was received on Friday evening informally by fax, a spokeswoman said on Monday. Details how the probate court wanted to deal with it, it is not called. During the day, there should be a press release.
Gurlitt’s cousin Uta Werner lays claim to the heritage of the art collector. It is supported according to their speaker of their children as well as individual children and grandchildren of her brother Dietrich. The elderly siblings Uta and Dietrich would have been the legal heirs.
Dietrich Gurlitt has not raised any claims and always advocated that the last will of his cousin Cornelius is to be fulfilled. He had bequeathed his controversial multimillion-dollar art collection in his will the Kunstmuseum Bern. Now, however, a Uta Werner commissioned report has doubts about his testamentary
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