Mansion in Munich contained trove of Nazi-looted art

[steve58]

Authorities in the German city of Munich have reportedly chanced upon a vast trove of priceless art that vanished during the Nazi regime and is today valued at about $1 billion.

The BBC cites the German magazine Focus in reporting German tax authorities found the store of 1,500 artworks, including those by masters like Matisse, Picasso and Chagall, hidden in the home of Cornelius Gurlitt, the reclusive son of a Munich art dealer.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/11/04/authorities-in-germany-reportedly-find-trove-nazi-looted-art/

Meanwhile, Cornelius Gurlitt's famous father, Hildebrandt Gurlitt, was well-known in international art circles for having reportedly been tasked with none other than Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, with monetizing the seized artworks deemed "degenerate."

But the elder Gurlitt apparently kept much of the art, and after the war, claimed the collection had been destroyed in the 1945 bombing of Dresden, where he had a home.

Hildebrandt must've had quite the set of steel balls to be screwing over Goebbels and the Nazis  :o

[endfire79]

Sounds like it was a long time coming (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/looted-by-the-nazis-found-in-a-squalid-apartment-1bn-cache-of-degenerate-art-8919958.html

Heh, looking at the residence photo, I think it's a real stretch to call it a 'Mansion in Munich'; it's an apt complex.  Sounds like he was really slumming it as well (picasso works wedged between cans...).

[Centurion40]

Hildebrandt must've had quite the set of steel balls to be screwing over Goebbels and the Nazis  :o

Krupp balls.