Legal Opinion: Cornelius Gurlitt testierfähig – Tagesspiegel

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The Collector Cornlius Gurlitt was compos mentis, as he sat his will. For the Kunstmuseum Bern inheritance advances reach.

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Cornelius Gurlitt bequeathed his art treasures in full possession of his mental faculties to the Kunstmuseum Bern , This is the conclusion one reaches is a medical report, which was requested by the Munich Higher Regional Court again after the cousin of the collector had challenged the inheritance. Then Gurlitt was 9 January 1914 in which he wrote at the hospital the testament, testierfähig – not least because he was under medical supervision. Part of the 146 pages long expert report had reached already in the past week in the public, on Tuesday gave the Munich Higher Regional Court officially announced the result.

The son of the Nazi art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt had died in 2014 at the age of 81 years and had his entire inheritance bequeathed to the museum. But his cousin Uta Werner drew his sanity into question and challenged the will. After a defeat in front of the Munich District Court she appealed. The stakeholders have now expressed until February 1 time for advice. When the court decides on the legality of the will, it is still unclear

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The spectacular images Schwabinger Fund had to developed one of the biggest art scandals of the postwar period. At that time it became known that as early as 2012 around 1280 works of art in Gurlitt’s Munich apartment had been confiscated by the prosecution. Two years later appeared another 238 paintings in his dilapidated house in Salzburg. With hundreds of them was suspected Nazi looted art. A Task Force should clarify the origin of the images. At the end she sets her work. In five cases, experts were able to confirm the robbery Art suspect hundreds of cases are still open.

Culture Minister Monika Grütters showed positively delighted with the result. This would be the especially for the victims of Nazi art theft is a big relief, “because education, provenance research and especially the restitution of the works in question may then be made much easier and quicker.” Once the Erbscheinverfahren completed, the works to the public should be made available. Already planning to Bonners Kunsthalle for the end of 2016 a major exhibition. The under-suspicion looted art images remain in the Federal Republic until its origin can be clarified zweifelsftrei. In parallel, the Kunstmuseum Bern will be showing his collection of parts that do not qualify for Restitutierung in question. (with AP)

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