Cornelius Gurlitt (Q15143412)

In a 1964 letter addressed to her older brother Cornelius, she wrote, “I sometimes think his most personal and most valuable legacy has turned into the darkest burden. What we have is locked away in the graphics cabinet or kept behind pinned-up curtains. … I tremble with fear every time I even think about it.” The “burden” Benita refers to—a trove of roughly 1,500 modern art masterpieces largely confiscated from their Jewish owners by representatives of the Third Reich—remained the Gurlitt family secret for nearly 50 years (English)

relative

Louis Gurlitt

kinship to subject

great-grandfather

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Johann August Wilhelm Gurlitt

kinship to subject

great-great-grandparent

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Gurlitt’s Swiss dealer breaks silence on his client

reference URL

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/-degenerate-art--_gurlitt-s-swiss-dealer-breaks-silence-on-his-client/43590572

languages spoken, written or signed

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1 reference

Integrated Authority File

retrieved

7 March 2015

owner of

Quai de Clichy. Temps gris

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stated in

Signac painting in Gurlitt hoard identified as Nazi loot

reference URL

https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=TJN5QU332801

Woman sitting in an armchair

1 reference

reference URL

https://www.lostart.de/de/Fund/477894

Dompteuse

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stated in

Bern Art Museum restitutes two Otto Dix to presumed owners

title

Bern Art Museum restitutes two Otto Dix to presumed owners (British English)

publication date

25 December 2021

language of work or name

British English

retrieved

1 November 2024

author name string

Catherine Hickley (text), Helen James (photo editor)

reference URL

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/bern-art-museum-restitutes-two-otto-dix-to-presumed-owners/47197012

significant event

Gurlitt hoard

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Gurlitt Status Report Part 2: Nazi Art Theft and its Consequences

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reference URL

https://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch/en/service/media/media-releases-2018/18-18-04-2018-gurlitt-status-report-part-2-1903.html

restitution of Nazi-looted art

point in time

2019

2 references

stated in

Signac painting in Gurlitt hoard identified as Nazi loot

reference URL

https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=TJN5QU332801

reference URL

https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2019/impressionist-modern-evening-sale-l20002/lot.13.html

depicted by

Three Nazi-looted works bought by Gurlitt return to Jewish collector’s heirs

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reference URL

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/three-nazi-looted-works-bought-by-gurlitt-return-to-jewish-collector-s-heirs

quotation

After Dorville’s death, the paintings were sold at auction in Nice in 1942, but his family never received the revenue. Many family members were later deported and murdered. Dorville’s heirs, represented by Antoine Djikpa and Antoine Delabre at a handover ceremony at the Chancellery on 22 January, said they were grateful for Germany’s “commitment to memory and justice.”Grütters said in a statement that the tragic family story “demonstrates very clearly how perfidiously Nazi art-looting operated. The misery and injustice suffered by the Dorville family at the hands of the Nazis cannot be compensated for. But we can and must make it visible. Every restitution counts.”Thirteen works from Gurlitt’s art trove have now been identified as looted by the Nazis and returned to the heirs. One of these, a painting by Paul Signac, is to be auctioned by Sotheby’s on 4 February. (English)