Paintings from Nazi stash shown

The Internet platform lostart.de has revealed further exhibits from the collection of art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt - including the "Seated Woman" by Henri Matisse. Since the works were suspected of being Nazi-looted art, the paintings were confiscated from the home of Cornelius Gurlitt, Hildebrand Gurlitt's son, in February 2012.

The work "Allegorical Scene," by famous French painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was also found in Gurlitt's home. The "poet among painters" was of Russian-Jewish origin, and is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His works are often associated with Expressionism.

Wilhelm Lachnit (1899-1962) was a German painter who mainly worked in Dresden. He made a conscious effort to take on Nazism with some of his work. In 1933, some of his works were confiscated and classified as "degenerate art." Lachnit was arrested. During the air raids on Dresden in February 1945, most of his works were destroyed - but now some have resurfaced.

The works of the German painter Otto Griebel (1895-1972) were part of the New Objectivity style. After World War I, Griebel was a member of the Communist Party of Germany, and later he co-founded the Red Group in Dresden. The Nazi regime did not like Griebel's "proletarian-revolutionary art," and in 1933 he was arrested. His work was denounced as Communist art.

Painter Erich Fraass belongs to the "lost generation" of German artists, whose work was severely curtailed and prevented by Nazi propaganda. He belonged to the board of the "New Dresden Secession" artists' association, dissolved in 1934 by the Nazis.

Ludwig Godenschweg was a German sculptor and etcher. In addition to his undated print, "Male Portrait," another of Godenschweg's works was also found at Gurlitt's home, "Female Nude." Both could have been part of the looted art from the collection of Dresden lawyer Fritz Salo Glaser, the daily "Die Welt" reported. His heirs want to reclaim the works.

Little is known about the German sculptor Fritz Maskos (1896-1967). Maskos created works like the bronze sculpture "Der Führer" and is considered controversial. His work "Somnambulist" was shown in 1938 in the exhibition "Degenerate Art" in Berlin. His pastel "Late summer still life" was seen at the Great Dresden Art Exhibition in 1943.

Norwegian painter Edvard Munch is represented with several exhibits in Gurlitt's collection. Munch greatly influenced the style of expressionism and modernism. His most famous work, "The Scream," was stolen in 2004 from the Munch Museum in Oslo, but was rediscovered in 2006. The origins of this print have been dated to 1896.