瑞士一博物馆同意接受争议艺术品

A Swiss museum has agreed to accept the controversial bequest of a collection of art masterPieces discovered in the home of the son of a Nazi-era art dealer.

一家瑞士博物馆同意接受一批存争议的遗产。这批遗产是在一名纳粹时期艺术品交易商的儿子家中发现的大量名作。

Cornelius Gurlitt, who died aged 81 in May, kept more than 1,200 artworks – including pieces by Picasso, Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec – hidden for decades.

科尼利厄斯•古利特(Cornelius Gurlitt)于今年5月去世，终年81岁。几十年来，他悄悄收藏着逾1200件艺术品，其中包括毕加索(Picasso)、雷诺阿(Renoir)和图鲁兹•劳特累克(Toulouse Lautrec)的画作。

The Kunstmuseum Bern, which Mr Gurlitt named as his sole heir, yesterday accepted the bequest, but said works suspected of being looted by the Nazis would stay in Germany while researchers attempted to identify their owners.

昨日，被古利特指定为唯一继承人的伯尔尼艺术博物馆(Kunstmuseum Bern)接受了这笔遗产，但表示，疑似纳粹赃物的作品将留在德国，由调查人员试图确定其主人。

The hoard includes works expropriated from Jewish owners, as well as “degenerate art” confiscated from German museums by the Nazis and legally acquired by Mr Gurlitt’s art-dealer father Hildebrand.

这批藏品包括从犹太物主那里搜刮的作品，以及被纳粹作为“堕落的艺术”(Degenerate Art)从一些德国博物馆没收的、后被古利特的父亲——艺术品交易商希尔德布兰德(Hildebrand)合法收购的艺术品。

The trove of modernist and renaissance art was seized from Mr Gurlitt’s Munich apartment when it was raided in 2012 by German authorities pursuing a tax investigation.

2012年，德国当局因税务调查突击检查了古利特的慕尼黑公寓，查扣了这批现代主义和文艺复兴时期的艺术作品。

More than 200 works were subsequently found at his second home in Salzburg, Austria. The discovery of the Munich hoard, disclosed by Focus magazine last year, prompted claims for restitution from the heirs of Jewish owners.

随后，在古利特位于奥地利萨尔茨堡的第二处住所也发现了逾200件作品。德国《焦点》杂志(Focus)去年披露了慕尼黑公寓藏品的发现，引起犹太物主的继承人的归还要求。

Monika Grütters, Germany’s culture minister, said yesterday three expropriated works – by Max Liebermann, Henri Matisse and Carl Spitzweg – would immediately be returned to heirs of the owners.

德国文化部长莫妮卡•格吕特斯(Monika Grütters)昨日表示，出自马克斯•利伯曼(Max Liebermann)、亨利•马蒂斯(Henri Matisse)和卡尔•施皮茨韦格(Carl Spitzweg)之手的三件被没收作品，将立即归还其物主的继承人。

Matthias Frehner, director of the Kunstmuseum Bern, said 400-500 works were suspected of being looted by the Nazis. They will remain in Germany, and Berlin will pay for research into their provenance. The Bern museum will accept works seized from museums as “degenerate art” by the Nazis.

伯尔尼艺术博物馆馆长马赛厄斯•弗雷纳(Matthias Frehner)表示，400至500件作品被怀疑是纳粹赃物。它们将留在德国，由德国政府出资调查它们的来源。伯尔尼艺术博物馆将接受被纳粹作为“堕落的艺术”从博物馆夺取的这些艺术品。