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Twenty-one years later, the painting was stolen. In the early hours of 14 December 1979, one or more burglars broke into Friedenstein Palace and stole the Portrait of a Man in a Wide-Brimmed Hat as well as works by (or after) Ferdinand Bol , Jan Brueghel the Elder , Anthony van Dyck , and Hans Holbein the Elder [ 4 ] in an evidently carefully ...
The Art Loss Register is a commercial computerized international database which captures information about lost and stolen art, antiques and collectables. It is operated by a commercial company based in London. In the U.S., the FBI maintains the National Stolen Art File, "a database of stolen art and cultural property. Stolen objects are ...
Friedenstein Palace (German: Schloss Friedenstein) is an early Baroque palace built in the mid-17th century by Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha at Gotha, Thuringia, Germany. In Germany, Friedenstein was one of the largest palaces of its time and one of the first Baroque palaces ever built.
Many valuable paintings have been stolen.The paintings listed are from masters of Western art which are valued in millions of U.S. dollars.The US FBI maintains a list of "Top Ten Art Crimes"; [1] a 2006 book by Simon Houpt, [2] a 2018 book by Noah Charney, [3] and several other media outlets have profiled the most significant outstanding losses.
After a stopover in the U.S. that lasted the better part of a century, a baroque landscape painting that went missing during World War II was returned to Germany on Thursday. The FBI handed over ...
The chalk-painting "Bord de Mer," by Claude Monet, created in 1865. The painting was stolen from Adalbert Parlagi by the Nazis in 1940, and returned to his descendants by the New Orleans FBI ...
For Claire, a now-70-year-old Jewish French woman living in Paris, it was the beginning of a 13-year battle to track down her grandfather’s stolen art, including precious paintings by 19th ...
The contents of the repository included Belgian-owned treasures such as Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges stolen from the Church of Our Lady in Bruges and Jan van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece stolen from Saint Bavo Cathedral in Ghent, Vermeer’s The Astronomer and The Art of Painting, which were to be focal points of Hitler’s Führermuseum in ...