Handling masterpieces with a troubled past

Switzerland has been at the centre of many key controversies and decisions over how to handle stolen and looted art from the Nazi era.

Following the art’s trail

An exhibition now open in Bern puts on show works of art forcefully taken from museums in Germany by the Nazis and classified as ‘degenerate art’.

By Jo Fahy

The Museum of Fine Arts in Bern offered the Swiss media its first opportunity to look over some of the Cornelius Gurlitt collection.

By swissinfo.ch and agencies

Two ancient Egyptian mummy portraits – stolen by the Nazis in the 1930s and later stored at the University of Zurich – have been returned to the ...

The heirs to a painting by John Constable hanging in a museum in western Switzerland have filed a lawsuit in a regional court to get the artwork ...

By Veronica DeVore

A Munich court has heard that deceased art collector Cornelius Gurlitt was of sound mind when he bequeathed his controversial collection to a ...

A German task force must figure out which works were stolen by Nazis.

By Petra Krimphove in Berlin

Cornelius Gurlitt's collection of artworks was discovered by chance in his Munich apartment in 2012. Pieces had been piled from floor to ceiling, ...

What makes Switzerland a good place for art. Switzerland is a popular place for trading expensive art. Apart from offering discretion and ...

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