ABSTRACT
In November 2013, the so-called Schwabing Art Trove (Schwabinger Kunstfund), which is considered to be one of the largest discoveries of lost art in private possession since the Second World War, was announced to the world as being found in the possession of a Mr Cornelius Gurlitt, an elderly reclusive man living in Munich’s Schwabing district. This discovery raised attention worldwide and it became a subject of intensive discussion by museums, art experts, politicians, journalists and others.
