The words “inventory means responsibility” were painted in large letters on the walls of the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital, which offers an exhibition that focuses on the source rather than the artistic works themselves. The museum spent eight years clearing out the contentious history of this group that it is now presenting to the public and confronting the ethical, political, and legal dilemmas in this group’s past. Each turn is a result of the fact that it was confiscated by the Nazis.
The German authorities caused a stir when they accidentally discovered the inheritance collection of artwork Cornellius Gorllet has given to the Kunstmuseum Bern in 2014, two years after the confiscation of his enormous group – acquired by his father Hilderland Gorllet, an art dealer from the Nazi era in Germany and Gorllett Group; This sparked a general debate on how to deal with Nazi art, and the German, Swiss, and international media painted a picture of a collection of properties looted by the Nazi
More than 1,600 works in Bern arrived in the total, only a few dozen pieces of cuts were returned to their legal owners as a lumpy or Germany to confirm their source while the questions are still ongo In World War II disturbance, it has an improper approach, including a lack of documentation, information, and witnesses.
A collection of World War II-era artworks is on show in a Swiss museum.
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