Cornelius Gurlitt inherited a massive collection of artwork from his father who was an art dealer who traded in works confiscated by the Nazis. 1,400 items were found at Gurlitt's home during a tax case investigation back in 2012. Officials are saying that 458 of those may have been seized from their owners by the Nazis. Some of the works include works by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is predicted that at least 300-350 of those works will be returned to Gurlitt. A task force has been set up in order to research each of the confiscated pieces. If, in one year, research hasn't been completed on a work, it will be turned to Gurlitt. Further research on a returned work is still able to be done after the year and any works with a pending restitution claim will be kept in trust. This article was interesting to me because of the sheer number of works that were being looked into.
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