An Inheritance Without Equal  ( Eine Erbschaft Sondergleichen) addresses a complex, tragic, and troubling event in the history of 20th-century art. In 1937, the Nazi government seized artwork from the Kaesbach Foundation at the Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach (now the Abteiberg Museum). The 72 works seized were officially auctioned off by the German government in Switzerland. Their ultimate goel was to remove from German society art they considered degenerate. This action resulted in the loss of a vital part of contemporary art collections from German museums. This exhibition is an attempt to reclaim the lost artwork as well as deal with its history of demise from a post world war II perspective through a collaborative project between the Abteiberg Museum and the German/ American artist Rainer Gross. The catalog is contains two parts. Part one describes the history of the Kaesbach collection researched and written by Sabine Fehlemann a former director at the Abteiberg Museum in Mönchengladbach, later the director of the Von der Heydt Museum in Wupperthal. Part two by S.D. Sauerbier, a professor of art history at the art academy of Berlin tries to put Rainer Gross' contribution into context.Gross worked from black-and-white reproductions appropriating images from the original seized artwork combining them with Nazi approved and cotemporary and contemporaneous imagery drawn from cosumer-based culture. The works were executed from 1985-87 with some additions in 90 and 91 The project has been exhibited at the old museum in Mönchengladbach and at the Anderson Gallery School of the Arts , Virginia Commonwealth University.