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Benita Gurlitt

daughter of Hildebrand Gurlitt, sister of Cornelius Gurlitt

  • Nicoline Benita Renate Gurlitt

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Nicoline Benita Renate Gurlitt received 18 works from her father’s trove of stolen art, and four of these works were just returned to their rightful owners (English)
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In a 1964 letter addressed to her older brother Cornelius, she wrote, “I sometimes think his most personal and most valuable legacy has turned into the darkest burden. What we have is locked away in the graphics cabinet or kept behind pinned-up curtains. … I tremble with fear every time I even think about it.” The “burden” Benita refers to—a trove of roughly 1,500 modern art masterpieces largely confiscated from their Jewish owners by representatives of the Third Reich—remained the Gurlitt family secret for nearly 50 years (English)
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According to an inventory of her estate, Benita, who died just months after the 2012 raid, possessed 18 pieces from her father’s collection. Now, four of these works of art—two drawings by Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen, Augustin de Saint Aubin’s “Portrait of a Lady in Profile” and a self-portrait by Anne Vallayer-Coster—have been traced back to their original Jewish owner, a French industrialist named Henri Deutsch de la Meur­the. (English)
 
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