The Bern Art Museum in
Switzerland will accept a German Nazi-era art collection
bequeathed by Cornelius Gurlitt, a spokesman said Monday.
Gurlitt, who died in May at age 81, named the Bern museum
as his sole heir, donating a collection of over 1,400
masterpieces he had inherited from his father Hildebrand, Adolf
Hitler's art dealer.
The collection includes pieces hidden for years, featuring
such artists as Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso.
The museum will cooperate with German investigators to give
back to the legitimate owners pieces that were looted by the
Nazis in the Second World War, the spokesman said.
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