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Claude Monet
A visitor watches the paintings "Melancholisches Maedchen", left, and Nackte Frau im Walde" of German painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, in the exhibition 'Status Report Gurlitt. degenerate art - confiscated and sold' in the Kunstmuseum in Bern, Switzerland, Wednesday, November 1, 2017. (Peter Klaunzer/Keystone via AP)
November 1, 2017, 8:53 pm
Hundreds of Nazi-looted artworks go on display in twin exhibitions
450 pieces from Gurlitt collection displayed in Switzerland and Germany to shed light on systematic theft from Jewish collectors
By Madeleine SCHWARTZ
Illustrative: A combination of photos released by prosecutors in Augsburg, Germany on November 12, 2013 show five of the more than 1,500 paintings believed looted by the Nazis, seized from a Munich flat of Cornelius Gurlitt. (Lostart.de/Augsburg prosecutors/AFP/File)
April 4, 2016, 10:32 pm
Swiss, German museums to show Nazi-era art hoard
Vast collection belonged to Cornelius Gurlitt, whose father was tasked by Hitler to help plunder great works from Jewish collectors
By AFP
A pastel on paper drawing of the lighthouse and jetty at Le Havre, by Claude Monet, c. 1868. The piece lay hidden inside the frame of another pastel by Monet. (Courtesy Richard Green Gallery)
June 25, 2015, 7:21 pm
To the lighthouse: How a very lucky art dealer found a hidden Monet
London-based Jonathan Green buys two small pastels at Paris auction, discovers previously unknown third treasure painted on the back of one of them
By Jonathan Beck
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