In pictures: Cornelius Gurlitt Nazi-era art trove on display
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A hoard of Nazi-era artwork collected by a recluse whose father was an art dealer in Hitler's Germany has gone on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern, Switzerland.
The museum previewed nearly 200 items, collected by Cornelius Gurlitt, that will be publicly displayed in November. Among them were pieces by key German painters Otto Dix, Franz Marc and Otto Mueller.
Works by German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner were also featured. Some of the artworks Gurlitt possessed were believed to have been stolen from Jews. The collector hid hundreds of paintings, drawings and sketches in his Munich and Salzburg homes for decades before they were discovered.
The items previewed on Friday will be on display to the public from 2 November in an exhibition entitled Degenerate Art, Confiscated and Sold.
Most of the artwork is on paper, including important works from the Symbolism, Expressionism, Constructivism and New Objectivity movements.
Much of the artwork was discovered in 2012 at Gurlitt's flat in Munich.
He died in May 2014 and left his collection to the Bern museum. But the museum only received it after a claim from a relative who contested his will was rejected by a court.
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