Swiss museum to give up more works from Gurlitt art trove

BERLIN (AP) — A Swiss museum to which the late collector Cornelius Gurlitt bequeathed an art trove he amassed at his home says it will relinquish ownership of works where no specific evidence has been found they were looted under Nazi rule but research points to “conspicuous circumstances.” The reclusive Gurlitt, who died in 2014, had squirreled away more than 1,200 works in his Munich apartment and a further 250 or so at a property in Salzburg, Austria. He inherited much of the collection from his father, an art dealer who traded in works confiscated by the Nazis. Authorities first stumbled on the art while investigating a tax case in 2012. Gurlitt’s will bequeathed roughly 1,600 works to Switzerland’s Kunstmuseum Bern.