When more than one thousand lost artworks by artists such as Paul Cezanne, Emil Nolde, Claude Monet, and Wassily Kandinsky turned up in the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012, the find was celebrated as a sensation.
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Now, for the first time, the works from the Gurlitt estate on view in Bonn and Bern are introduced in a comprehensive book that unfolds their turbulent history.
But the accusation that the collection was the product of wartime looting also hovered, unspoken, in the air.
When more than one thousand lost artworks by artists such as Paul Cezanne, Emil Nolde, Claude Monet, and Wassily Kandinsky turned up in the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012, the find was celebrated as a sensation