Art Hoarder Cornelius Gurlitt Leaves $1.4B Trove to Swiss Museum
A Swiss art gallery discovered on Wednesday that it had been named as the sole heir of Cornelius Gurlitt, the reclusive German owner of a hoard of masterpieces discovered accidentally in a tax probe, who died this week aged 81. The Bern Art Museum said the news “came like a bolt from the blue” as…