ART TROVE IN MUNICH WORTH 1.5 BILLION EUROS

Apparently a collection of "degenerate art" was amassed by Dr Goebbels via forced sales from Jews that were allowed to emigrate from Germany prior to WWII.
A single piece of Max Beckman work was being quietly sold by a Mr Cornelius Gurlitt of Munich. It was later discovered that My Gurlitt was sitting on about 1500 works of art by Picasso, Matisse, and others . These works were seized by German authorities in 2011. How come its been 2 years since this is even disclosed and what is the German govt going to do to achieve "justice" in dealing with this collection that is reportedly worth 1.5 Billion, or about 10 million for each work.

The news showed this modest little apartment in Munich where Gurlitt apparently lived. How the hell did he get all these works in there undetected and 1500 paintings make a fairly big pile .
All these questions.
I hope that a settlement agreement is forthcoming where the descendants of the original owners are fairly compensated and that the paintings themselves should probably now go into a nationl museum associated with the Holocaust.

Any ideas?

The cyanide turned his body green,
so he must have been a fan of modern art after all.

Some say re art stolen by the Nazis that due to the immense theft of art committed by the Nazis, there could still be thousands works today that are laying around in private collections.

The fact that art was stolen is just a blip on the radar screen. A book was written by a German women, and I read it a year or so ago, about all the "goodies" (food, perfume, stockings, etc., etc.) that were sent home to the Fatherland from occupying German troops. It was almost a continual Christmas for many a German family that had a family member in occupied Europe (France had the best pilfering). I don't think the book was popular in Germany. It was a library book too.

A book was written by a German women, and I read it a year or so ago, about all the "goodies" (food, perfume, stockings, etc., etc.) that were sent home to the Fatherland from occupying German troops.

Well, there have always been some goodies sent home or taken away by soldiers: quite a bit was send "home" by US-American soldiers to the USA ... and is now auctioned on ebay.

Jesus, you're a nasty ****. It's easy to do that kind of thing to anyone.



You claim, completely without evidence, that i'm "anglophobic." Yet you never miss an opportunity to gratuitously slander Americans. You're a worthless pice of ****.

Some of the spectacular collection of paintings found by police in a Munich apartment appear to have been confiscated after the Second World War by Allied forces and returned five years later, German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported Wednesday. The newspaper based the finding on transcripts of interviews with the art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt, whose son Cornelius resides in the apartment where the paintings were discovered.

A list attached to one of these transcripts provides information about more than 100 pieces in Gurlitt's private collection, which was stored at the time at a United States collection point in the southwestern German town of Wiesbaden. The list included some of the paintings that were presented at a press conference in Augsburg on Tuesday, including a previously unknown self-portrait by Otto Dix, the painting "Two Riders on the Beach" by Max Liebermann and a painting by Marc Chagall.
According to the newspaper report, Hildebrand Gurlitt successfully lobbied the Allies to return the artworks. His private collection, minus two pieces, was allegedly returned to him in 1950.

The fact that art was stolen is just a blip on the radar screen. A book was written by a German women, and I read it a year or so ago, about all the "goodies" (food, perfume, stockings, etc., etc.) that were sent home to the Fatherland from occupying German troops. It was almost a continual Christmas for many a German family that had a family member in occupied Europe (France had the best pilfering). I don't think the book was popular in Germany. It was a library book too.

Well, there have always been some goodies sent home or taken away by soldiers:
quite a bit was send "home" by US-American soldiers to the USA ...
and is now auctioned on ebay.