March 21, 1918: The northern French city of Amiens was under German bombardment for a month. The works of art from the Musée de Picardie are brought to safety, including an oil painting by Jérôme-Martin Langlois. A century earlier, commissioned by the king, he had painted the fabulously beautiful Diana on a 2x3 meter canvas, floating to her golden-haired lover Endymion. 11,000 grenades and 870 aerial bombs later, large parts of the city lay in ruins, including a wing of...
Proceedings have been opened against the man who is said to have stolen a mural by the British street artist near Kyiv.The Prosecutor General's Office in Kyiv has launched a case against the alleged thief of a Banksy mural. The man was observed by local residents in early December as he and other men cut a picture of the British street artist out of a wall. The police, alerted by the residents, confiscated the picture and arrested the eight men....
Some art thefts are so spectacular that they are remembered forever as art crimes. Many of the art treasures are rediscovered and returned home, others remain lost forever. And sometimes works of art only become really famous when they are stolen. This is what happened with what is probably the most well-known of all pictures in the world today, the Mona Lisa. In 1911, an Italian craftsman working in the Louvre in Paris stole Leonardo da Vinci's painting. When he...
Of Verena MayerThe call that every museum director dreads came in the early morning of November 25, 2019. The head of security woke Marion Ackermann from her sleep and said something had happened in the Green Vault. Her first thoughts were: There was a fire, "Fire and water are the greatest threat scenarios for a museum". When the head of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) arrived in the treasury of Dresden Castle, she found out that everything was much worse:...
The jewelry from the Dresden art robbery is back in the Green Vault. But that has its price. source site
If you are interested in cultural treasures, one sentence is enough to startle you. After the Manching gold robbery, the reports on the night of the crime said: The responsible police department found out about the power and data failure in the Manching area, and the officials then went off to check - at the local banks. Apparently, the idea of checking the Celtic Museum to make sure everything was in order never came up.The culture friend thinks differently, loosely...
British street artist Banksy's work, which was removed from the wall of an apartment building in the town of Hostomel, has resurfaced. As reported by Ukrainian mediathe part of the facade with the image was seized and eight people were arrested for stealing the mural.According to Ukrainian authorities, on Friday the group removed the mural depicting a person in a bathrobe holding a gas mask and holding a fire extinguisher. The reclusive artist had attached it to a house wall...
An alleged diamond dealer from Antwerp wants to bring back looted goods from the Green Vault. But with the cash he gets for it from the museum, he runs away. Of Peter RichterA press release issued by the Dresden public prosecutor's office a few days ago does not make the State Art Collections look particularly happy. It's about the attempt to get it back after the jewel robbery in the Green Vault exactly three years ago. In parts, however, the...
Interviewed by Thomas BalbierAccording to the police, the burglary into the Manching Celtic and Roman Museum lasted only nine minutes, during which previously unknown perpetrators stole 483 gold coins on Tuesday night. It was the largest Celtic gold find of the 20th century. The spectacular case is in line with the museum burglaries in Berlin in 2017 and Dresden in 2019, in which criminals also targeted valuable exhibits. source site
Religious fanatics may have been at work: in September, unknown persons demolished a Stations of the Cross by the artist Gabriela von Habsburg at the Catholic Ludwigskirche in Maxvorstadt and stole two of the 30-kilogram sculptures. Where previously the stainless steel works of art created by the emperor's granddaughter with the titles "Jesus takes the cross" and "Jesus dies on the cross" recalled the suffering and death of Christ, stickers with the motto "Jesus lives" were emblazoned after the outrage.Pure...
