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Kunsthaus Zurich: Looted art claims pose questions for Swiss museum

BBC News

By Noele Illien
Zurich, Switzerland

November 22, 2021

When Switzerland’s largest art museum, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, last month opened the golden doors of a vast new extension designed by star architect David Chipperfield, it declared it was the most important home of French and impressionist paintings outside Paris.

However, central to that leap into the top tier of art museums is a notorious private collection, linked to looted art.

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