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| Born | 28 December 1932 Hamburg, Germany |
| Died | 6 May 2014 (aged 81) Munich, Germany |
| Occupation | Art collector |
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Rolf Nikolaus Cornelius Gurlitt (28 December 1932 – 6 May 2014) was a German art collection owner. The son of Hildebrand Gurlitt, an art gallery director and Nazi-era dealer of looted art who worked for Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring,[1] Gurlitt inherited from his father a collection of over 1,400 artworks known as the Gurlitt trove or Gurlitt Collection, a small number (less than 20) of which were subsequently demonstrated to have been looted from Jews by Nazis.[2][3][4][5] Upon its public discovery, the collection was impounded by the Augsburg Prosecutor's Office as evidence in a possible case for tax evasion that was never mounted; the works were not returned to Gurlitt's estate until after his death. In his will, Gurlitt left the entire collection, minus any works that turned out to be looted, to a lesser known gallery in Switzerland, the Museum of Fine Arts Bern (German: Kunstmuseum Bern), apparently in reaction over his perceived poor treatment by the German authorities.
- ^ "Hildebrand Gurlitt and His Dubious Dealings with Nazi Looted Art". Der Spiegel. 23 December 2013. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
- ^ Oltermann, Philip (4 November 2013). "The mysterious Munich recluse who hoarded €1bn of Nazis' stolen art". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
- ^ Rea, Naomi (22 January 2020). "Less Than a Month After the Louvre Hired a Nazi Loot Expert to Investigate Its Collection, She Found 10 Ill-Gotten Works Hiding in Plain Sight". Artnet News. Archived from the original on 13 June 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
Today, January 22, Germany is handing over three works from the collection to Dorville's heirs after they submitted a claim for their return. Two paintings by Jean-Louis Forain, a watercolor titled Lady in an Evening Gown and the oil painting Portrait of a Lady in Profile, were located within the hoard of Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of Nazi-era art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt
- ^ Oelze, Sabine; Wojcik, Nadine (24 November 2021). "Gurlitt Collection: Last of 14 Nazi-looted artworks auctioned". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
Among the some 1,500 artworks found in Cornelius Gurlitt's hoard, 14 were proven to have been looted under the Nazis.
- ^ "Jewish art dealer's family to recover Matisse painting looted by Nazis". the Guardian. 14 May 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
Seated Woman, painted in 1921, was taken from Paul Rosenberg as he fled Germany, but was discovered in Cornelius Gurlitt's Munich flat