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ZURICH (Reuters) – A Swiss museum will retain ownership of a painting by Paul Cezanne in a Nazi-era collection, after agreeing to regularly exhibit it in a museum in his city natal, Aix-en-Provence. said Tuesday, July 3
Mount St. Victory, a landscape from 1897, is among the works amassed by the German art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt after he was enlisted by the Nazis to sell Modern art says "degenerate"
His son, Cornelius Gurlitt, kept the treasure in his Munich apartment for decades, before leaving it at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern when he died at the age of 81 in 2014.
In a statement, Cezanne The heirs acknowledged that the painting had not been stolen by the Nazis, at least according to the information available, but indicated that 39, there was a gap in its provenance before being part of the collection Gurlitt after 1940.
Swiss capital t "This solution, in the spirit of Franco-Swiss friendship, allows two large museums, the Museum of Fine Arts Bern and the Granet Museum of Aix-en-Provence, from Philippe Cézanne said in the statement: "It is a work that, until 1940, belonged to the Cézanne family," said the Bern Museum. "When and under what circumstances Hildebrand Gurlitt acquired the work remains unclear."
The painting is part of the exhibition Gurlitt Museum: Status Report; Part 2 The theft of Nazi art and its consequences up to July 15
At a later unspecified date, it will be loaned to the Granet Museum.
The Berne Museum states that the agreement was concluded without changing money.
"Instead, the agreement was driven by mutual trust and the spirit of partnership and cooperation."
The painting is part of more than 80 works painted by Cézanne of Montagne Sainte-Victoire. La France.
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