Assignment
3
Subject : Pembelajaran Bahasa
Inggris Berbantuan Komputer #
Name : Septiaji Fajar Rianto
Class : 4SA04
NPM : 16611682
The Article
Swiss museum
to accept Gurlitt 'Nazi art'
But a museum spokesman said pieces looted by the Nazis in
World War Two would not be permitted in the museum. Mr. Gurlitt, the son of
Adolf Hitler's art dealer, had for years hidden works by artists including
Picasso and Monet. Around 500 works are expected to remain in Germany until
their rightful owners can be identified.
Three pieces - by Max Liebermann, Henri Matisse and Carl
Spitzweg - will be returned immediately, German officials say. But it is
unclear how reassured other families who had their paintings looted by the
Nazis will feel about Monday's announcement, says BBC News arts editor Will
Gompertz. Neither Germany nor Switzerland has a particularly glowing track record in the field of
returning looted art, our correspondent adds.
'Historic
burden'
The Bavarian authorities seized some 1,280 artworks from Mr
Gurlitt's Munich flat as part of a tax evasion probe in February 2012. The
find, which was not made public until November last year, has triggered legal
disputes surrounding works taken
illegally by the Nazis. Mr Gurlitt died in May aged 81 having named the Bern
museum as his "sole heir".
Christoph Schaeublin, president of board of trustees of the
Bern Art Museum, told a news conference in Berlin on Monday that the museum
would accept the bequest. But "no work suspected of being looted"
would enter the museum, he said. The museum pledged to work with German
authorities to ensure that "all looted art in the collection is
returned" to its rightful owners.
A
canny compromise - by Damien McGuinness, BBC News, Berlin
What to do about this billion-euro art collection has
plagued Germany ever since news broke about the secret hoard a year ago. And
the announcement whether Bern Art Museum would take on what is being seen as a
"poisoned chalice" was a moment of high drama.
"It was the most difficult decision of my professional
life," the museum's president, Christoph Schaeublin told me. By taking in the whole collection, the
museum could have laid itself open to years of expensive legal battles over ownership,
or been tarnished with the accusation of profiting from the Nazis' crimes. That
is why a canny compromise has been made - the German state will now store the
hundreds of paintings thought to have been looted, and track down the rightful
owners. The descendants of the original owners now hope they are a step closer
to getting what is rightfully theirs.
"The foundation council's decision was anything but
easy and there certainly weren't emotions of triumph," said Mr Schaeublin."These
would be entirely inappropriate considering the historic burden weighing
heavily on this art collection." Mr Gurlitt's father, Hildebrand Gurlitt,
was ordered to deal in works that had been seized from Jews, or that the Nazis
had considered "degenerate" and removed from German museums.
The hoard is estimated to be worth up to a billion euros
(£850m; $1.35bn) and includes works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso and
Marc Chagall, Emil Nolde.
- Henri Matisse's Femme Assise [Seated Woman] was looted from Jewish art dealer Paul Rosenberg and is set to be returned to his descendants, who had been looking for the piece when Mr Gurlitt's hoard was discovered
- Max Liebermann's Two Riders on the Beach is said to have been seized from industrialist and avid art collector David Friedmann "as a consequence of the Nazi persecution of Jewish citizens". His great-nephew, David Toren, had taken legal action against Germany for its restitution
- Carl Spitzweg's Playing the Piano is to be returned to the heirs of music publisher Henri Hinrichsen, who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942
A German task force is investigating the art amid claims
from descendants of the original owners, including the family of art dealer
Paul Rosenberg. Christopher A Marinello, who is representing
the Rosenbergs in their efforts to recover Matisse's Femme Assise [Seated
Woman], said on Monday the family were "grateful" to the museum. "We
hope now for the expeditious return of all looted works in the Gurlitt bequest
to their rightful owners," he said in a statement.
Cornelius Gurlitt initially refused to give up the paintings
but then changed his position, agreeing to co-operate with the German
authorities on establishing the paintings' provenance, and then return them if
they were shown to be stolen. One of his cousins, 86-year-old Uta Werner, said
on Friday she was contesting his fitness of mind when he wrote the will naming
the Bern museum as his sole heir.
However German media quoted her brother, Dietrich Gurlitt,
saying he would not object to the will.The family has stressed its commitment
to returning any looted art and a transparent effort to clarify the origins of
the artworks.
The Questions
From
the article above, do this assignment :
1.
Find
the forming –ing which forms gerund/noun, adjective, and progressive verb!
2.
Analyze
them!
The
Answers
1.
Gerund/
noun : a. Taking Progressive Verb: a.
Looking
b. Weighing b.
Representing
c. Contesting
d. Naming
e. Investigating
Adjective
: a. Glowing
b. Surrounding
2. Gerund:
-
Taking
is gerund because it stands after
preposition “by” which has meaning Pengamatan in Indonesian.
-
Weighing
is gerund because it is a part of noun
phrase “the historic burden weighing”, and it derives from verb “weigh”
-
Contesting
is gerund because it stands after to be “was” that refers to a noun, which has
meaning Kontestan in Indonesian.
-
Naming
is also gerund because it is a part of noun phrase “the will naming”, and as
the object from the statement.
-
Investigating
is gerund for refers to the noun phrase “A german task force” is as the
investigating, that has meaning Komisi
Penyelidikan in Indonesian.
Adjective:
-
Glowing
is adjective because it modifies “Track record” which is as a noun phrase, and
it stands before the noun.
-
Surrounding
is adjective because it modifies noun “works”, and it has meaning Melingkupi
in Indonesian.
Progressive Verb:
-
Looking
is progressive verb because before it, there are words “had & been” that
refers to simple past perfect progressive form.
-
Representing
is progressive verb because it stands after auxiliary verb “is” that has meaning
in Indonesian as sedang mewakili from the sentence.
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