List of Famous people with last name Gurlitt

Cornelius Gurlitt

Rolf Nikolaus Cornelius Gurlitt
First Name Cornelius
Last Name Gurlitt
Born on December 28, 1932
Died on May 6, 2014 (aged 81)
Born in Germany

Rolf Nikolaus Cornelius Gurlitt, son of Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Third Reich dealer of Nazi-looted art, grandson and great-grandnephew of his namesakes Cornelius Gurlitt and Cornelius Gurlitt (composer), is known for the stash of artworks discovered in his apartment some of which was proven to be looted art from the Nazi era. The collection was confiscated by German tax authorities in 2012 on dubious grounds but eventually agreed to be returned to Gurlitt's possession in 2014, although this never happened in his lifetime. After the collection came to public attention in 2013, Gurlitt agreed that any items which could be identified as looted should be returned to surviving relatives of the persons from whom the items were originally stolen. In his will he bequeathed all his property, including the art collection, to the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern, Switzerland, which agreed to accept them minus any items of suspect provenance, which remain in Germany pending further investigation.

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Hildebrand Gurlitt

First Name Hildebrand
Last Name Gurlitt
Born on September 15, 1895
Died on November 9, 1956 (aged 61)
Born in Germany, Saxony

Hildebrand Gurlitt was a Nazi German art historian, art gallery director and subsequently, Nazi-associated art dealer, and war profiteer, who traded in "degenerate art" during the Nazi era, and purchased paintings in Nazi-occupied France, many of them stolen from their original owners, for Hitler's planned Führermuseum and for himself. He also inherited family artworks from both his father and his sister, an accomplished artist in her own right. Following World War II and the denazification process he became Director of the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, until his death in a car accident at the age of 61. His personal collection of over 1,500 items, including works by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Eugène Delacroix, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Franz Marc, Marc Chagall, Édouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Rodin, Otto Dix, Edvard Munch, Gustave Courbet, Max Liebermann, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, among many others, remained virtually unknown until it was brought to public attention in 2013 following its confiscation from the possession of his son, Cornelius Gurlitt, who, although never reunited with the collection, bequeathed it upon his death in 2014 to the Museum of Fine Arts Bern in Switzerland.

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Louis Gurlitt

Heinrich Louis Theodor Gurlitt
First Name Louis
Last Name Gurlitt
Born on March 8, 1812
Died on September 19, 1897 (aged 85)
Born in Germany, Hamburg

Heinrich Louis Theodor Gurlitt, also called Louis Gurlitt, was a Danish-German painter of landscapes. His brother was the composer Cornelius Gurlitt, and his son was the architect and art historian also called Cornelius Gurlitt.

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Cornelius Gurlitt

Cornelius Gustav Gurlitt
First Name Cornelius
Last Name Gurlitt
Born on January 1, 1850
Died on March 25, 1938 (aged 88)
Born in Germany, Saxony

Cornelius Gustav Gurlitt was a German architect and art historian.

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Fritz Gurlitt

Friedrich Louis Moritz Anton Gurlitt
First Name Fritz
Last Name Gurlitt
Born on October 3, 1854
Died on February 8, 1893 (aged 38)
Born in Austria

Friedrich "Fritz" Gurlitt, originally from Vienna, was a Berlin based art dealer and collector, specialising, in particular, in contemporary art. After his early death the art gallery he had established in central Berlin was taken on by his son, the dealer Wolfgang Gurlitt (1888-1965).

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Wilhelm Gurlitt

August Franz Christian Wilhelm Gurlitt
First Name Wilhelm
Last Name Gurlitt
Born on March 7, 1844
Died on February 13, 1905 (aged 60)
Born in Italy, Lazio
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Ludwig Gurlitt

Georg Remi Ernst Ludwig Gurlitt
First Name Ludwig
Last Name Gurlitt
Born on May 31, 1855
Died on July 12, 1931 (aged 76)
Born in Austria
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Cornelius Gurlitt

Gustav Cornelius Gurlitt
First Name Cornelius
Last Name Gurlitt
Born on February 10, 1820
Died on June 17, 1901 (aged 81)
Born in Germany, Hamburg

Cornelius Gurlitt was a German composer. He was a classmate of Carl Reinecke, whose father was head of the famous Leipzig Conservatory. Gurlitt studied with Reinecke's father for six years. His first public appearance at the age of seventeen was well received, and he decided to go to Copenhagen to continue his studies. There he studied organ, piano, and composition under Curlander and Weyse. While in Copenhagen he became acquainted with the Danish composer Niels Gade, and they remained friends until Gade's death.

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Wilibald Gurlitt

Wilibald Ludwig Ferdinand Gurlitt
First Name Wilibald
Born on March 1, 1889
Died on December 15, 1963 (aged 74)
Born in Germany, Saxony

Wilibald Gurlitt was a German musicologist.

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Manfred Gurlitt

First Name Manfred
Last Name Gurlitt
Born on September 6, 1890
Died on April 29, 1973 (aged 82)
Born in Germany

Manfred Gurlitt was a German opera composer and conductor. He studied composition with Engelbert Humperdinck and conducting with Karl Muck. He spent most of his career in Japan.

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