The New York Times reports on the private life of German collector Cornelius Gurlitt, whose huge trove of Nazi-looted art, including works by Otto Dix and Pablo Picasso, left him leading a secluded existence in his Munich flat.  “There is nothing I have loved more in my life than my pictures,” he said. (more…)

The story behind the collection of Nazi-looted artworks discovered in a Munich flat this week has taken a new twist, with the discovery that the works had toured the U.S. after World War II, the Wall Street Journal reports.  Part of the collection of Nazi propaganda director Hildebrand Gurlitt traveled to the United States as part of a larger show in 1956, reports illustrate, showing the increasingly difficult challenges of locating the artworks’ original owners. (more…)