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Plundered art Mummy portraits stolen by Nazis returned to heirs

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 ...

Nazi appropriation Heirs to looted Constable painting file lawsuit

Veronica DeVore

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 ...

Nazi links Gurlitt ‘sane’ when donating art to museum

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

Looted art Art detectives mull Gurlitt treasures

Petra Krimphove in Berlin

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

Art list The hidden truths of the Gurlitt collection

Michèle Laird

Bern’s Museum of Fine Art has published a first list of artworks contained in the controversial Gurlitt collection.

Nazi loot Gurlitt art bequest a ‘win-win’ says media

Susan Misicka

The Swiss media has generally welcomed the decision by the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern to accept the controversial collection of art from ...

Secret stash Inside the Gurlitt collection

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

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Handling masterpieces with a troubled past

Following the art’s trail

Plundered art Mummy portraits stolen by Nazis returned to heirs

Nazi appropriation Heirs to looted Constable painting file lawsuit

Nazi links Gurlitt ‘sane’ when donating art to museum

Looted art Art detectives mull Gurlitt treasures

Art list The hidden truths of the Gurlitt collection

Nazi loot Gurlitt art bequest a ‘win-win’ says media

Nazi-looted art Gurlitt’s heavy legacy goes to Swiss museum

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