Report: Art treasures in Gurlitt’s Austrian house

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VIENNA (AP) — Austrian state television says experts have found 180 artworks — including a long-lost painting by Claude Monet — in the Salzburg house of the German art collector who hoarded art in his Munich apartment for decades.

ORF says the works were discovered last month among the “household belongings” of Cornelius Gurlitt, in addition to 60 pieces of art discovered separately in the house.

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