Some 1,500 pictures have come to light after being discovered in the Munich apartment of an old man named Cornelius Curlitt. His father, Hildebrand, was a dealer during the Nazi era and had assembled an impressive stash of the Modernist art that Hitler deemed "degenerate."
It is believed that these paintings include artist Matisse and Courbet, Franz Marc and Max Liebermann, Marc Chagall, Max Beckmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and many more. The first goal of the Nazis was to purge and either destroy or sell abroad, in exchange for currency, stockpiles of modern art to purify Germany.
However, art has continued to refuse to be eliminated by history. These precious works of arts survived and its' fight against time and the purge shows us just how impactful art has on this world. Every piece was a statement against Hitler and it won in the end.
"Landscape With Horses" by Franz Marc (1880-1916), a painter who died a hero in World War I but was banned by the Nazis.
Gustave Courbet's "Village Girl With Goat," one of some 1,500 paintings, missing for decades, discovered in a Munich home.
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