Swiss museum to accept Gurlitt 'Nazi art'

Gurlitt, the son of Adolf Hitler's art dealer, was estimated to have amassed a collection worth up to a billion euros, including pieces by Picasso and Monet.
Gurlitt, who died in May, made the Bern museum his "sole heir".
The discovery of the collection in his Munich flat in February 2012 led to its confiscation by the Bavarian authorities and has triggered legal disputes surrounding works taken illegally by the Nazis.
The Bern museum's president, Christoph Schaeublin, told a news conference in Berlin on Monday that the museum would accept the bequest.
But "no work suspected of being looted" would enter the museum, he said.
The museum pledged to work with German authorities to ensure that "all looted art in the collection is returned" to its rightful owners.
"The foundation council's decision was anything but easy and there certainly weren't emotions of triumph," said Mr Schaeublin.
"These would be entirely inappropriate considering the historic burden weighing heavily on this art collection."
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