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The Museum of Fine Arts Bern in Switzerland will retain ownership of a Paul Cezanne painting found in a Nazi treasure in 2014, confirmed the heirs of the artist on Tuesday. They also stated that the museum had agreed to regularly exhibit the work in the hometown of Cezanne, Aix-en-Provence, France
"This solution in the spirit of the friendship and Franco-Swiss partnership allows two great museums, the Bern Museum Fine Art and the Granet Museum in Aix-en-Provence, to show a masterpiece of our grandfather Paul Cezanne to the benefit from a general public, "said Philippe Cézanne (pictured above), great-grandson of the master painter. 19659002] The painting was found in the now famous Gurlitt collection, originally ambaded by the German art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt under the leadership of the Nazis to sell or get rid of "degenerate" art seized from museums
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Gurlitt Collection shown in Bern
August Macke: Landscape with Sailboats
"From all of us, he gave the stamp the most It's clear and purest to color, "says Franz Marc after his friend artist August Macke fell into the First World War in 1914. Macke painted his sailboat pictures at Lake Tegernsee in Bavaria. Otto Mueller: Female Nude Lying at Waterside (Photo: Bundeskunsthalle) “/>
The Gurlitt Collection in Berne
Otto Mueller: Female Nymph Lying at Waterside [1] 19659007] Thin women are a characteristic motif of the influential German Expressionist artistic movement . This model lies undressed on a rock surrounded by water.
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Gurlitt Collection shown in Berne
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: "Melancholy Girl"
A wary and depressed man, Kirchner created this wooden cup in 1922 The Nazis removed many of his works from German museums and defamed them as "degenerate". Born in the German region of Franconia, Kirchner was buried in Switzerland
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Gurlitt Collection presented in Berne
Otto Dix: Leonie
The artist had the reputation of social criticism even as a young man. "I can not go ahead, my paintings can not be sold, I become famous or infamous," he says in 1920, shortly before finishing this painting.
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The Gurlitt collection shown in Bern
Emil Nolde: Wide landscape with clouds
" My homeland was like a fairy tale, my parents' house in the countryside, thousands of larks I marvel from one ocean to the other, "enthused the North German painter Maler Emil Nolde: Large expanses and fuzzy transitions between sky, earth and water were his motives
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Gurlitt Collection shown in Berne
Franz Marc: Sitting horse
No motive or animal fascinated Marc more than horse, a metaphor for purity and innocence in the eyes of this expressionist painter.His bold experimentation with color led to to a group of horse paintings to the blues in 1910. This image, also in the collection of Gurlitt, was a predecessor.
Author: Stefan Dege (rf)
But Gurlitt kept many paintings and his son Cornelius Gurlitt stored the collection in his Munich apartment until his death at the age of 81 in 2014. In his will, he left the works at the Bern Museum
How the painting, the landscape of 1897 "The Mountain Sainte-Victoire," ended up in Gurlitt's possession remains a mystery. It was owned by the Cézanne family until 1940, but the family said the Nazis had not stolen them.
"When and under what circumstances Hildebrand Gurlitt acquired the work remains obscure," said the Bern Museum.
The painting is currently part of the exhibition of the Bern Museum "Gurlitt: State Report Part 2: Theft of Nazi Art and its Consequences."
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