The house in Munich's Schwabing district, where art masterpieces stolen by the Nazis
were discovered in a flat, pictured on November 4, 2013. Nearly 1,500 priceless paintings
including works by Picasso and Matisse that were stolen by the Nazis have been discovered
in the flat, a news report said on November 3, 2013.
The German weekly Focus said police came upon the paintings during a 2011 search
in the apartment belonging to the octogenarian son of art collector Hildebrand Gurlitt,
who had bought them during the 1930s and 1940s. The report said the works were thought
to be worth around one billion euros ($1.3 billion dollars) on today's market.
AFP PHOTO / Christof Stache
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