Gurlitt task force wraps up with ‘meager’ results

The German task force assigned to investigate the provenance of almost 1,500 works found in Cornelius Gurlitt’s Munich apartment and his Salzburg home said research conducted on 162 works in the collection indicates that they were looted by the Nazis, though just five of them have been definitively identified as stolen fr om Jewish families and recommended for restitution.
In its final report, published on 14 January, the task force led by Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel said the provenance of