In 1979, five paintings were stolen from Schloss Friedenstein in Gotha, Germany. The works did not re-emerge for 40 years, and the event became communist East Germany’s biggest ever art heist. In 2019, however, the paintings were returned to Friedenstein, and new scientific analysis and research indicates that one of the portraits, previously attributed to seventeenth-century artist Ferdinand Bol, might be a lost masterpiece by Rembrandt.
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An extremely rare artwork by French Baroque painter Georges de La Tour (1593–1652) has sold for a whopping €3.6 million (£3.2 million), €4.3 million with fees (£3.9 million) at Lempertz auction house in Cologne. Its sale on 8 December 2020 broke records, becoming the most expensive work ever sold at auction in Germany.
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2017 may provide an opportunity to see the Gurlitt hoard in its entirety. The artistic director of Documenta 14, one of the world’s most hotly anticipated contemporary art events, has told a German newspaper that he hopes to exhibit all of the works of art in the collection of the late Cornelius Gurlitt in the next edition of the fair. Continue reading
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