Broken, rusted, scratched: The loot that was seized from the Green Vault is in worse condition than expected. This also affects the deal that the alleged thieves negotiated with the prosecutors.from Iris Mayer and Verena Mayer, DresdenWhen it became known in December that the jewels had emerged from the Green Vault, there was talk of a "Christmas miracle". A good three years earlier, thieves had broken into the Dresden Residential Palace and stolen numerous sets of jewels from a display...
According to MDR information, the deal also includes four defendants making confessions. In return, a small prison sentence could have been promised. The Dresden public prosecutor did not comment on MDR inquiries and referred to the ongoing proceedings. After breaking into the Green Vault: The most valuable pieces are still missing On the first and second day of Christmas, divers searched the bottom of a canal in Berlin's Neukölln district. According to the police, this search was related to the...
According to MDR information, the deal also includes four defendants making confessions. In return, a small prison sentence could have been promised. The Dresden public prosecutor did not comment on MDR inquiries and referred to the ongoing proceedings. After breaking into the Green Vault: The most valuable pieces are still missing On the first and second day of Christmas, divers searched the bottom of a canal in Berlin's Neukölln district. According to the police, this search was related to the...
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
Most of the jewels stolen from the Green Vault in 2019 are back in Dresden. The clues probably came from the alleged thieves themselves - who expect advantages in their process.Of Verena MayerFor Saxony, Christmas presents took place this year on the fourth weekend in Advent. The country received 31 pieces of jewelry set with diamonds, including a breast star and hat ornaments. More precisely: It got the jewels back. Because these had been stolen from the Green Vault in...
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...
A man has been arrested in the Netherlands in connection with the 2019 burglary in the Green Vault. The 54-year-old is suspected of having defrauded the Dresden State Art Collections of 40,000 euros. mdr source site
A podcast in five parts about the burglary of the Green Vault in Dresden and other spectacular art crimes. Hear the first episode for free - all others weekly with SZ Plus.Of Verena Mayer and Antonie Rietzschel source site
The fair "The European Fine Art Fair" (Tefaf) is something like the luxury boutique of the art world. Particularly valuable old paintings and works of art are exhibited here, and museums and collectors like to shop at Tefaf to complete their collections. There were years when two-thirds of all old master paintings for sale worldwide were at Tefaf, and this year the organizers in Maastricht, Netherlands, proudly presented their highlights. A painting by the Italian painter Luca Giordano, for example,...
