Artworks looted under Nazi rule handed over by German authorities

People visit the 2017 exhibition Gurlitt : Status Report at the Bundeskunsthalle museum in Bonn, Germany (Martin Meissner/AP)

German authorities have now handed over all 14 works from the art trove accumulated by late collector Cornelius Gurlitt that so far were proven to have been looted under Nazi rule, the government said.

Piano Playing, a drawing by Carl Spitzweg, was handed over to Christie’s auction house on Tuesday at the request of the heirs of its rightful owner, Henri Hinrichsen, the government said.