But they were all arrested, their work confiscated, and thus "the Public Security Bureau destroyed a vibrant underground literary community in Sichuan".
The Musée Centrale des Arts opened in 1793, displaying works confiscated from the king and the church.
The legal situation in Germany around looted art and works confiscated as "degenerate art" is highly complex.
Gurlitt inherited the art collection from his father, Hildebrand, who was commissioned to obtain artworks on behalf of Adolf Hitler and bought works confiscated from Jewish familes.
Among the works confiscated from the museum were paintings and sculptures by Max Beckmann, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Wilhelm Lehmbruck; in short, the Expressionist heart of the Kronprinzen's collection.
German Expressionists and European modernist artists working during the 1920's and 1930's -- including Oskar Kokoschka, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Wassily Kandinsky and Emil Nolde -- were labeled "degenerates" by Hitler, who ordered their works confiscated and banished.
She returned to Iran in 1957, but after the Islamic revolution of 1979, which saw the vast majority of her works confiscated, sold or destroyed, she spent another 10 years in New York.
The American art-loving public should not be penalized because Russia, contrary to international law and Russia's pledge to honor the Washington Conference Principles on the restitution of Holocaust art, refuses to return cultural works confiscated by the Nazis from Holocaust victims in Poland.
The question of how to return the tens of thousands of works confiscated outright by the Third Reich or seized as spoils of the Second World War has bedeviled institutions throughout Europe as the decades have slipped by and the original owners have grown infirm and died off.
It featured artists like Marc Chagall, Georg Grosz, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee--all works confiscated from museums in Nazi-held territory.
