Carl Spitzweg's drawing Das Klavierspiel (1840)
A drawing by Carl Spitzweg that was uncovered in a secret cache of art in a Munich apartment 73 years after it was seized by the Nazis has been returned to the heirs of Henri Hinrichsen, a Jewish music publisher and philanthropist who was murdered at Auschwitz.
The drawing was seized by German customs in 2012 in the apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt, an elderly recluse, along with about 1300 other works including paintings by Henri Matisse and Max Liebermann. It is the 14th work from Gurlitt’s collection, which he bequeathed to the Bern Museum of Fine Arts, to be returned to the heirs of the original Jewish owners, the German government said in a statement.