1,400 Nazi-Looted Artworks Found In One German Apartment AUGSBURG, Germany -- AUGSBURG, Germany (AP) — A hoard of more than 1,400 artworks found by tax investigators in a German apartment includes a previously unknown piece by Marc Chagall and works by some of the masters of the 20th century, authorities said Tuesday. Some of the works are believed to have been missing since they were seized by the Nazis. Investigators searched the apartment in an upscale Munich district in February 2012, as part of a tax investigation that started with a routine check on a Zurich-Munich train in late 2010. Authorities said they found 121 framed and 1,285 unframed works — including by 20th-century masters such as Pablo Picasso, Max Liebermann and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and earlier works by artists including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Gustave Courbet, Auguste Renoir and Canaletto. The oldest work dates back to the 16th century. Prosecutor Reinhard Nemetz told reporters in the Bavarian city of Augsburg that investigators have turned up concrete evidence that at least some of the works were seized by the Nazis from their owners or classed by them as degenerate art and seized from German museums in 1937 or shortly after. huffingtonpost/2013/11/05/chagall-painting_n_4218316.html?utm_hp_ref=arts
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 02:11:53 +0000
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