Police has foundwhat ’s probably the expectant hoard of steal art ever : 1,500 house painting valued at some $ 1.35 billion enshroud by 80 - yr - sure-enough Cornelius Gurlitt in his Munich flat . Of course , the art was stolen by the damn Nazis during the 30 and 40s .
Cornelius inherit the paintings — which include works from Pablo Picasso , Henri Matisse , Marc Chagall and many others — from his founding father , a German art accumulator named Hildebrand Gurlitt . Herr Gurlitt mystify them from the Nazis , who slip them from Jewish collectors during the 1930s and 1940s . Hitler hated these artists , but these paintings were already worth a luck back then .
Nobody eff about them . The police was n’t enquire the whereabout of the paintings . They did n’t have a undivided clue about this gem . They discovered it when they kick the bucket into Cornelius ’ star sign because they suspect he may have been evade taxation .
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