Cornelius Gurlitt
How about that guy? Dead at 81. Go figure.
He, for you not in the loop, was the guy who the German authorities caught with a cache of thousands of WW2-era paintings and drawings in his Munich apartment, a great many of which were snatched during the Holocaust. We're talking Picasso, Chagall (who, honestly, doesn't blow me away -- but that's just a personal thing), Matisse, Beckmann. So we're talking real stuff.
There's a school of thought that says Beckmann, Caravaggio and me are the three greatest painters of black in history.
This is my boy Cornelius. He had a bad heart to start with. Being the center of one of the most sensational art uproars of the century didn't help.
He, for you not in the loop, was the guy who the German authorities caught with a cache of thousands of WW2-era paintings and drawings in his Munich apartment, a great many of which were snatched during the Holocaust. We're talking Picasso, Chagall (who, honestly, doesn't blow me away -- but that's just a personal thing), Matisse, Beckmann. So we're talking real stuff.
There's a school of thought that says Beckmann, Caravaggio and me are the three greatest painters of black in history.
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