Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Monika Grutters returns three artworks to a descendant of a Jewish French collector who owned the pieces until his death in 1941 after the Nazis occupied France, at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany January 22, 2020. A watercolour entitled "Lady in an Evening Dress" and an oil painting "Portrait of a Lady" are by Jean-Louis Forain, the third work, "Amazonian on Rearing Horse", was a drawing by Constantin Guys which had been in private ownership. REUTERS/Madeline Chambers
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany on Wednesday returned three art works to a descendant of a Jewish French collector who owned them until his death in 1941 in Nazi-occupied France.
Two of the pictures came from a trove of works held by Cornelius Gurlitt, which was discovered in 2012 by German tax inspectors in Munich. His father had been an art dealer and sold what the Nazis dismissed as "degenerate" art.
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