BERLIN (AP) — The task force looking into the late German collector Cornelius Gurlitt’s long-hidden art trove says officials have found a landscape by Claude Monet in a suitcase that he took to a hospital.
The task force said Friday the court-appointed administrator of Gurlitt’s estate this week received the suitcase, which had been kept at the hospital, and reported finding the light-blue landscape. It said it will check whether the work was stolen by the Nazis, as it is doing with many other works in Gurlitt’s collection.
Experts believe Monet may have painted the work around 1864. The task force says it appears very similar to the French artist’s “View of Sainte-Adresse.”
Gurlitt died in May.
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Only a small fraction of the massive theft of art by the Nazis has been recovered, The rest was either destroyed or secreted away into private collections and even museums.Gurlitt is merely a small example as the current German government drags its heels.
Now just where did I put that Vermeer? Was it in the large carry-on, or in the wheeled duffel?
I prefer to keep my monet in my wallet
Read ‘The Rape of Europa’ for a detailed account of how the Nazis destroyed and stole western civilization’s heritage. Devastating.
Being the son of a looter doesn’t really make him a “collector.”