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Cornelius Gurlitt

"A Woman Sitting In A Chair" by Henri Matisse. The painting is one of the 1,400 works confiscated from the late German collector Cornelius Gurlitt, the son an Nazi era art dealer. The painting was allegedly looted from a Jewish family by the Nazis.

A Swiss musem accepts a ‘Nazi art’ collection — and vows to return stolen works

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The Kunstmuseum of Bern, Switzerland, has agreed to accept a collection of priceless art hoarded by the son of Hitler’s art dealer. The museum, along with the German government, has also pledged to investigate and return pieces stolen from Jews during World War II, a potential watershed moment.

The Kunstmuseum Bern art museum in the Swiss capital of Bern was named as the sole heir of Cornelius Gurlitt.

German recluse has left his Nazi-era hoard of art to a Swiss museum

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This Matisse painting is the object of competing claims in Germany.

An amazing collection of stolen German art may go back to the man who has been hiding it for decades

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Rwandan President Paul Kagame (R) and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni follow the proceedings of the 20th anniversary commemoration of the Rwandan genocide, in Kigali April 7, 2014. An estimated 800,000 people were killed in 100 days during the gen

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U.S. soldiers examine the painting, "Wintergarden," by French Impressionist painter Edouard Manet, stolen by the Nazi regime and hidden in a salt mine in Merkers, Germany April 15, 1945.

German police find masterpieces by Picasso and others thought lost in World War II

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