Switzerland’s Bern Art Museum has agreed to accept hundreds of artworks bequeathed by German Nazi-era art hoarder Cornelius Gurlitt.
Many of the works are expected to remain in Germany until their rightful owners can be identified.
Gurlitt, the son of Adolf Hitler’s art dealer, was estimated to have amassed a collection worth up to a billion euros.
The collection has been subject to a long legal dispute over works taken illegally by the Nazis.
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