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An ad-hoc International Art Crime Tribunal to resolve the fate of the Munich Gurlitt pictures?
My friend and associate Judge Arthur Tompkins of New Zealand sent me the following open letter which he has written in regard to the trove of art recovered from a Munich resident, reported on in Archaeolaw here: 80-Year-Old Munich Man with Confiscated Trove of Nazi-Looted Art Breaks Silence Open Letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel: […]
80-Year-Old Munich Man with Confiscated Trove of Nazi-Looted Art Breaks Silence
November 20, 2013
An 80-year-old Munich man inherited upwards of a thousand pieces of artwork from his father, and 500 of the works are suspected to include pieces taken from Jews during the Nazi regime. During the war, Cornelius Gurlitt’s father was one of the four major art dealers for Hitler himself. The German government confiscated the trove […]
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