everybody was surprised, you know. >> safer: ekkeheart gurlitt is cornelius gurlitt's cousin, a ratherrapher now living in barcelona. >> gurlitt: his friends were his paintings, right. and for the last 60 years, he was living with his paintings, which was his... his idea of life, you know. >> safer: of the 1,400... >> gurlitt: 1,406. ( laughter ) >> safer: you've got it right down to the last one. >> gurlitt: i mean, it's different if you have 1,400 picassos or you have 1,406. >> safer: picasso was just the beginning. cornelius gurlitt's secret hoard of art included modern masters like matisse, chagall, franz marc, and otto dix. gurlitt's small world fell apart in 2010 almost by accident. traveling back from switzerland to germany, a customs inspection brought him under suspicion and triggered a tax investigation that would be his undoing. >> willi korte: they had caught him on a train with 9,000 euros in cash in his pocket, which made them suspicious. then, they tried to look him up in their files and they couldn't find him. the man didn't seem to exist. he wasn't registered, he didn'