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  • A visitor walks in the Museum of Fine Arts Bern (Kunstmuseum Bern) in Bern, Switzerland, May 8, 2014.
    A visitor walks in the Museum of Fine Arts Bern (Kunstmuseum Bern) in Bern, Switzerland, May 8, 2014.
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    Museums Plan to Exhibit Art from Gurlitt’s Nazi-Era Trove

    The museums in Germany and Switzerland intend to display portions of the collection—1,500 works worth an estimated $1 billion—to find clues about their unknown provenance

    byRose Kaplan
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    The Mystery of the Missing Jewish Books of Rome

    Tracing the fate of 25,000 volumes lost to the Holocaust

    byMichael Frank
  • 'Rides At The Beach' by Max Liebermann, photographed on November 18, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. The work is among the nearly 1,400 works German authorities confiscated from the Munich residence of Cornelius Gurlitt, son of Hildebrand Gurlitt, an art dealer who worked for the Nazis. (Lost Art Koordinierungsstelle Magdeburg via Getty Images)
    'Rides At The Beach' by Max Liebermann, photographed on November 18, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. The work is among the nearly 1,400 works German authorities confiscated from the Munich residence of Cornelius Gurlitt, son of Hildebrand Gurlitt, an art dealer who worked for the Nazis. (Lost Art Koordinierungsstelle Magdeburg via Getty Images)
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    Germany Orders Nazi-Looted Painting Returned to Jewish Heirs

    Max Liebermann painting part of massive Munich trove discovered in 2012

    byIsabel Fattal
  • (Photograph of the painting "Sitting Woman," by Henri Matisse)
    (Photograph of the painting "Sitting Woman," by Henri Matisse)
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    Germany Rules Matisse Belongs to Jewish Heirs

    The 1921 work, ‘Woman Sitting in an Armchair,’ was found in Munich in 2011

    byIsabel Fattal
  • The house of Cornelius Gurlitt in the Aigen district of Salzburg, Austria, where the German recluse stored part of his art collection.(Joerg Koch/Getty Images)
    The house of Cornelius Gurlitt in the Aigen district of Salzburg, Austria, where the German recluse stored part of his art collection.(Joerg Koch/Getty Images)
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    Second Will Found For Collector of Disputed Art

    But his agreement to return the art to original owners remains legally binding

    byStephanie Butnick
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    (Kunstmuseum Bern)
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    Nazi-Looted Art Trove Willed to Swiss Museum

    Cornelius Gurlitt, who died Tuesday, leaves massive collection of contested art

    byStephanie Butnick
  • The house of Cornelius Gurlitt in the Aigen district of Salzburg, Austria, where the German recluse stored part of his art collection. (Joerg Koch/Getty Images)
    The house of Cornelius Gurlitt in the Aigen district of Salzburg, Austria, where the German recluse stored part of his art collection. (Joerg Koch/Getty Images)
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    Center of Nazi-Looted Art Dispute Dies at 81

    German recluse Cornelius Gurlitt leaves art trove worth $1.4 billion and no will

    byHannah Dreyfus
  • (Photograph of the painting "Sitting Woman," by Henri Matisse)
    (Photograph of the painting "Sitting Woman," by Henri Matisse)
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    Major Nazi-Looted Art Collection to be Returned

    Germany recluse’s hidden stash includes work by Monet, Renoir, and Matisse

    byHannah Dreyfus
  • A self portrait by Otto Dix is seen on screen at a press conference on Nov. 5, 2013, in Augsburg, Germany, on the discovery of nearly 1,500 paintings, including works by Picasso and Matisse, looted by the Nazis.(Johannes Simon/Getty Images)
    A self portrait by Otto Dix is seen on screen at a press conference on Nov. 5, 2013, in Augsburg, Germany, on the discovery of nearly 1,500 paintings, including works by Picasso and Matisse, looted by the Nazis.(Johannes Simon/Getty Images)
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    Why the Germans Haven’t Returned $1 Billion Worth of Nazi-Looted Paintings

    Munich authorities seem more interested in protecting an art dealer than in returning stolen works to their rightful heirs

    bySaul Austerlitz
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