Pursuits
Miro, Max Ernst Collectors Await Berlin Decision on Art
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Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch are waiting for Berlin to decide whether it can house their collection of Surrealist art, with paintings by Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Yves Tanguy and Joan Miro.
Berlin’s museums currently have no space for the gift. Plans to move the Old Masters to make way for 20th-century paintings sparked online petitions and furious newspaper columns earlier this year. The city’s museum authorities were forced to reconsider. They plan to publish a report weighing the alternatives in the first half of 2013.