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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hickley, Catherine

Titel

Museums : Gurlitt bequest spurs new research in Switzerland : Kunstmuseum Bern appoints team to identify art looted by the Nazis

Ist Teil von

• Art newspaper (International ed.), 2017-07, Vol.26 (292), p.17-17

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Quelle

International Bibliography of Art (IBA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Cornelius Gurlitt's surprising decision to bequeath his controversial collection to the Kunstmuseum Bern has triggered a new impetus for provenance research in the Swiss capital. The elderly recluse, who hoarded Nazi-looted art for decades in his Munich apartment and Salzburg home, unexpectedly named the museum as the sole beneficiary of a will written weeks before he died in May 2014. [Abridged Publication Abstract]