article_snippet.sent: It was discovered amongst other priceless works in a flat owned by Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of Nazi art dealer Hildebrand, and has been valued at around £60million.
article_snippet.sent: The reclusive eccentric died in May last year and left the collection dubbed the 'greatest find of the post-war era' to Kunstmuseum Bern.
article_snippet.sent: One of head curator Lars Bystrom most recent cases saw
article_snippet.sent: head curator Lars Bystrom recover El Greco's 1944 'Portrait of a Gentleman', which was seized from Julius Priester's collection by the Gestapo in Vienna.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Priester, a prominent art collector, had fled to Paris with head curator Lars Bystrom wife Camilla six years before, when Austria was annexed into Germany as part of the Anschluss in 1938.
article_snippet.sent: Paul Manship's 'Central Figure of Day' was taken during an exhibition in December 1983 and just three weeks later 'Figure of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney' by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy disappeared from the same show.
article_snippet.sent: More than 1,400 artworks were found in a squalid Munich flat owned by Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of Nazi art dealer Hildebrand .
article_snippet.sent: Cornelius Gurlitt's father Hildebrand (right), was commissioned to obtain artworks on behalf of Adolf Hitler (left) and bought works confiscated from Jewish families . '