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Cornelius Gurlitt

"A Woman Sitting In A Chair" by Henri Matisse. The painting is one of the 1,400 works confiscated from the late German collector Cornelius Gurlitt, the son an Nazi era art dealer. The painting was allegedly looted from a Jewish family by the Nazis.
Arts
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The Kunstmuseum Bern art museum in the Swiss capital of Bern was named as the sole heir of Cornelius Gurlitt.
Arts, Culture & Media
German recluse has left his Nazi-era hoard of art to a Swiss museum
This Matisse painting is the object of competing claims in Germany.
Arts, Culture & Media
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame (R) and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni follow the proceedings of the 20th anniversary commemoration of the Rwandan genocide, in Kigali April 7, 2014. An estimated 800,000 people were killed in 100 days during the gen
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Arts, Culture & Media
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