Berlin received a gift of a collection of art worth 120 million euros

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German collectors Ulla and Heiner Pittssh donated to museums in Berlin, his collection of art, reports Bloomberg. Collection of couples are works by such artists as Mark Rothko, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock and Max Ernst.
Ulla and Heiner Pittssh assembled his collection over 30 years, and constitute the basis for its work of surrealists and abstract artists. For a long time the pictures were not available to the general public, and only in 2009 in Berlin, the collection was exhibited for the first time entirely in the New National Gallery (Neue Nationalgalerie). During the exhibition was visited by some two hundred thousand people.
According to Heiner Pittssh, he gladly gave the collection of the city, as it will help fill a gap in the exposition of the New National Gallery. Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit, for his part thanked the family for a couple of "such a generous gift."
The cost of collection of four Pittssh estimated at 120 million euros. It is believed that this is one of the world's finest private collections of the Surrealists.
(Lenta.Ru)