Swiss museum shows controversial Nazi-era art collection

Looted art: Renoir's "Portrait of Irene Cahen d'Anvers" at the the Kunsthaus Zurich. ZURICH: A top Swiss museum has run into trouble showing an art collection acquired in questionable circumstances during World War II, with some saying its attempt to put it"in context" does not focus enough on the fate of the art's former Jewish owners.

Some had previously been looted from their Jewish owners, or sold cheaply and in haste as their owners fled the Nazis. But some say it has not gone far enough, with hackers attacking its website earlier this year, branding Buhrle a"Nazi sympathiser".Even before the show opened on Nov 3, an advisory committee of external experts quit in protest at the lack of space given to the former Jewish owners.

"We're aware of the fact that this collection entails a lot of discussions, and we felt that we need to show the work, but also with a context," museum director Ann Demeester told AFP. "The artwork themselves are not guilty," Demeester said,"but they are a testimony to this history of horror". One of the pieces on display is a Renoir masterpiece from 1880,"Portrait of Irene Cahen d'Anvers", which was confiscated by the Nazis and later returned by Buhrle to its Jewish owners, who then sold it back to him.

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