Works of art stolen by Nazis to go on show in Germany

By Ayhan Simsek

BERLIN (AA) - Dozens of famous works of art stolen by the Nazis will be on display for the very first time on Friday at the national art museum in Bonn.

Around 250 works, including Claude Monet's Waterloo Bridge and Auguste Rodin's marble sculpture Crouching Woman will be shown at the Bundeskunsthalle, as part of an exhibition called Dossier Gurlitt: Nazi Art Theft and its Consequences.

The famous works of art were part of a collection of Cornelius Gurlitt, son of Adolf Hitler's art dealer, Hildebrand Gurlitt.

The collection was discovered in 2012, after German authorities searched Gurlitt's apartment in Munich.

Many famous works of art are believed to have been looted by the Nazi regime from Jewish owners, and some of them were taken from museums between 1933 and 1945.