Case file #10
GURLITT
Filed under art theft, 2010s.
- Era
- 2010s (2013)
- Date
- November 2013
- Status
- Closed
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A 2010 cash check on a Zurich–Munich train put tax investigators onto Cornelius Gurlitt; the 2012 search of his Schwabing apartment (made public by Focus in November 2013) uncovered about 1,280 artworks, with 238 more later found in Salzburg, an estate of roughly 1,600 works. His father, Hildebrand Gurlitt, was one of four dealers Hitler's regime authorized to sell confiscated "degenerate art" abroad. Cornelius died in 2014, bequeathing the trove to the Kunstmuseum Bern.