Gurlitt Collection to Be Exhibited at Israel Museum, Highlighting Nazi-Looted Art
In May 2019, Alessia Panella, an art lawyer, hosted a conference at Gallerie d'Italia in Milan to unveil the exhibition 'Fateful Choices: Art from the Gurlitt Trove,' set to open at the Israel Museum in September 2019. This exhibition will feature approximately 100 pieces from the Gurlitt collection, which contains 1,600 artworks discovered in 2013 and previously owned by Hildebrand Gurlitt, an art dealer during the Nazi regime. The Kunstmuseum Bern received the collection and presented it for the first time in 2017. To address provenance issues, the German government has initiated shows and formed a task force. The event will discuss restitution, with speakers like Ido Bruno and UNESCO’s Ana Luiza M. Thompson-Flores, while Panella emphasized the legal challenges surrounding restitution, referencing Jan van Huysum's 'Vaso di Fiori.'
Key facts
- The conference was held in May 2019 at Gallerie d'Italia in Milan.
- Exhibition 'Fateful Choices: Art from the Gurlitt Trove' opens September 2019 at Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
- Ido Bruno is the new director of the Israel Museum and curator of the exhibition.
- The exhibition will display about 100 artworks and 30 documents from the Gurlitt collection.
- The Gurlitt collection was discovered in 2013 in Cornelius Gurlitt's Munich apartment.
- Hildebrand Gurlitt was a Nazi-era art dealer involved in confiscating 'degenerate art' and acquiring works from Jewish families.
- The Kunstmuseum Bern received the collection via Cornelius Gurlitt's will and first exhibited it in 2017.
- The German government has organized exhibitions in Bonn and Berlin and set up a task force for provenance research.
- Alessia Panella stated that millions of artworks were confiscated from Jewish families between 1935 and 1944.
- The restitution of Jan van Huysum's 'Vaso di Fiori' is cited as an example of legal and moral complexities.
Entities
Artists
- Hildebrand Gurlitt
- Cornelius Gurlitt
- Jean Honoré Fragonard
- Jan van Huysum
- Paul Cézanne
- Albrecht Dürer
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder
- François Boucher
- Francesco Guardi
- Eugène Delacroix
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
- Gustave Courbet
- Eugène Boudin
- Edvard Munch
- Max Beckmann
- Otto Dix
- Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
- Louis Gurlitt
- Cornelia Gurlitt
Institutions
- Gallerie d'Italia
- Israel Museum
- UNESCO
- AIMIG
- Kunstmuseum Bern
- German government
- Uffizi
- Musée Granet
- Artribune
Locations
- Milan
- Italy
- Jerusalem
- Israel
- Munich
- Germany
- Bonn
- Berlin
- Aix-en-Provence
- France
- Linz
- Austria