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No ART WORLD observers will recollect doubt innocent Syrians and Iraqis are the media hysteria that erupted after an being robbed of their treasures and being elderly Munich resident was stopped on cruelly debased by uniformed criminals a Swiss train with copious amounts of even as you read this. But the Gurlitt case cash in his pocket. The resulting tax epitomised the underlying greed and investigation exposed Cornelius Gurlitt’s avarice – masquerading as cultural ED SYKES stash of 1,500 items of middling integrity – that pervade the art world Marcus Harvey 2016 modern art, which also contained a today. From the off, it was the monetary London Studio tranche of remarkable gems. The Gurlitt value of these artworks that grabbed name was famous in recent German headlines. The declarations of a love 3 Goldsmiths graduate, Marcus Harvey, shot to prominence with art history. His father, Hildebrand, for art by the countless claimants to his much misunderstood depiction of Moors murderer Myra Hindley, an established pre-war dealer, had the Gurlitt collection (hundreds of created from handprints taken from a plaster cast of a child’s hand, ‘collaborated’ with the Third Reich to ‘misguided’ applications were rejected) and shown in the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1997. Born in 1963, Harvey grew up in Moortown, a suburb of Leeds (he broker the sale of ‘degenerate’ art for “...the corrupt have a hollow ring. After much sugary attended Leeds College of Art), an area of Yorkshire where the Moors the regime, mostly acquired from the press coverage about the return of the Murders and the Yorkshire Ripper remain omnipresent. Aside from beleaguered Jewish community. A alliance between Two Riders on a Beach to Friedmann’s his own art, Harvey is now recognised for Turps Banana magazine – review concluded he had siphoned off numerous heirs (David Toren, new writing about art by contemporary practising painters – which he launched with Peter Ashton Jones in 2005. many of these acquisitions for himself dealer Joseph Duveen Friedmann’s great nephew, emotionally and this is what his son inherited. remembered seeing the painting hanging Gurlitt Jnr had been born in 1932 and critic in his great uncle’s collection before it (was thus 13 when the war ended) and was seized by the Nazis in 1938), it was came from a family heavily involved Bernard Berenson promptly put into auction (sold at £1.9 in the arts – coincidentally with Jewish million). Which brings us to the recent ancestry, a fact glossed over in this demonstrated you Knoedler débâcle, whereby very rich HOT & COOL ART modern day morality tale. After his collectors were sold outright fakes by father's 1956 death in a car accident, also needed a Ann Freedman at the historic gallery. The Cornelius lived with his mother in of the cri de coeur was of probity, culture, the EDITOR Lyle Owerko Munich until she died in 1968. He provenance veracity of great art – and justice being Mike von Joel NEW YORK survived by trickling moderately valu- provenance before metered out to the miscreants. In fact, a [email protected] Anne Chabrol able artworks into the auction system – handful of plaintiffs has already accepted PUBLISHERS PARIS notably Kornfeld (Bern) and Lempertz parting with large private cash settlements, and as one case David Tidball (Cologne) – who themselves seemed finally got to court – and with Knoedler Karl Skogland BERLIN little interested in ‘provenance’ – or the amounts of cash.” on the ropes after a devastating [email protected] client’s insistence on cash transactions! performance by expert witness Jack Flam Elizabeth Crompton – just two weeks into the trial the De MELBOURNE Jeremy Levison When this previously unknown ‘hoard’ Jewish groups have reacted with fury Sole’s have withdrawn, after accepting [email protected] was exposed, carelessly stacked up in at the news, claiming – of course – a a secret cash deal from Freedman and DEPUTY EDITOR ADMINISTRATION two separate locations (Salzburg and political whitewash (© Mr Lauder). Knoedler Gallery. The art trade is now Anna McNay Julie Milne Munich), the art world went into To assuage the predictable outcry, the betting there will never be a court [email protected] [email protected] overdrive and the Jewish community head of the investigation, Ingeborg judgement against the Knoedler began baying for blood. Because – Berggreen-Merkel, added that 499 defendants. So much for principle. PRODUCTION PUBLISHED BY of course – this material had to have works were ‘determined to have a MANAGER State Media Ltd. Alice Cox been stolen from the victims of the questionable history’. In fact, a large LONDON UP THE WORKERS [email protected] Holocaust. Leading the verbal assault number of middling art works currently [email protected] was the World Jewish Congress, its sleeping in museums and institutions PUBLICATIONS THAT strike a CORRESPONDENTS president, cosmetics mogul and noted across Europe would fit this description, particular political pose are always Clare Henry PRINTED BY collector, Ronald Lauder. While the acquired as they were in times when amusing, whichever direction they lean. Ian McKay Garnett Dickinson paparazzi snapped an ailing Gurlitt greed and investment were not the The Guardian – famous for its arts William Varley Rotherham S63 5DL wandering around a dingy supermarket cornerstones of art collecting, but coverage and support of Arts Council in Munich, the headlines screamed intellectual appreciation was. And as for style tosh – was always an anomaly. about $1 billion worth of unregistered major works of art, the corrupt alliance Fervently left wing and socialist, the art and the authorities were landed with between dealer Joseph Duveen and Guardian group (GNM) survives purely STATE MAGAZINE is available through selected a political hot potato. They responded critic Bernard Berenson demonstrated thanks to capitalist financial engineering. galleries, libraries, art schools, museums and by setting up a Task Force1 to examine you also needed a provenance of the A bastion of champagne socialism (for- other art venues across the UK. each and every artwork. This group of provenance before parting with large mer editor Alan Rusbridger received experts, museum professionals and art amounts of cash. £471,000 in pay and benefits in 2008/9), Totally free, STATE is about new historians also included a contingent GNM was slated to lose more than £50 Confessional 2015 oil on canvas manoeuvres in painting and the from Israel. Gurlitt’s last laugh was to leave the million in the 12 months up to March visual arts – combined with f22, whole of his estate to a Swiss museum. 2016. In a single year the investment a supplement on developments in In January this year the results of more Initially protesting they would reject fund has reportedly been depleted by the fusion of art & photography. than three years’ investigation revealed this tainted collection, now the Task £100 million, down to £735 million. 18 May - 26 June 2016 just FIVE of the works to have been Force rulings are official, the Museum Over the last decade, the group has It is not a review magazine – it categorically looted by the Nazis from of Fine Arts (Bern) intends to accept lost over £300 million and GNM now is about PEOPLE worth serious unfortunate Jewish owners. Of these, the Gurlitt estate – less the 499 indicates it intends to save £53.6 million consideration; PLACES that are Henri Matisse’s Femme Assise will be ‘questionable history’ items, which this year and reduce the workforce by hot and happening; and PROJECTS returned to the descendants of the will remain in Germany to see if any 20%. It’s tragic, but we at State Magazine Art Bermondsey Project Space developing in the international Jewish art dealer Paul Rosenberg; more evidence of malpractice can be cannot afford to be socialists! 183-185 Bermondsey Street art world. Max Liebermann’s Two Riders on the dredged up. Mike von Joel Editor (adjacent to White Cube) Beach went to the great-nephew of the industrialist and art collector David And the point of the text above? London SE1 3UW To apply to stock STATE Magazine, please mail NOTES Julie Milne: [email protected] Friedmann; and Carl Spitzweg’s Certainly not to belittle in any way 1.