Showing posts with label Berlin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Berlin. Show all posts
January 22, 2023

Four confessions to a museum burglary all started with a photo of the Green Diamond

›
This month, has proved an interesting month in the ongoing trial of six burglars, believed to be responsible for the theft of 18th-century j...
December 17, 2022

Recovered: (Some) of the Jewels Stolen in the November 25, 2019 Green Vault Burglary at Dresden's Residenzschloss.

›
On 25 November 2019, burglars entered the Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe in German) museum within Dresden Castle in Saxony, Germany and smashed...
April 8, 2022

What about the well known looted vases in the Altes Museum in Berlin?

›
Left: Medici Archive Polaroid with fragments of the Crater of Persephone, attributed to the Painter of the Underworld, Right: 4th century BC...
September 3, 2021

Six members of the Remmo family are formally indicted in Dresden for connection to the 2019 Grünes Gewölbe burglary

›
Yesterday an indictment was filed at the state court in Dresden, Germany formally charging six individuals, aged 22-27 with serious gang the...
December 19, 2020

Unsolved string of incidents at multiple museums, vandalising more than 100 objects, in Germany

›
Last October the museum world was shocked by mysterious vandalism of sixty objects in four hours at three prominent German museums on Berlin...
November 17, 2020

Three suspects in the burglary theft at the Green Vault have been arrested in Berlin.

›
Image Credit: Saxony Police One year ago, on 25 November 2019, burglars entered the Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe in German) museum within Dre...
February 29, 2020

Flash Back to Restitutions: Remembering the Apulian dinos, 340-320 B.C.E. attributed to the Darius painter

›
A long time ago, in a galaxy seemingly far far away, a red-figure 340-320 B.C.E. Apulian dinos, attributed to the Darius Painter, once ...
February 25, 2020

Mild prison sentences handed down in organized crime-related theft at the Bode Museum in Berlin

›
When a giant gold coin, weighing 100 kilos was stolen from room 243 of the Bode Museum and carted off without a hitch in the early morn...
October 25, 2019

Arrested and released for health reasons, German Dealer Michael Schultz is accused of having deceived clients with false documentation.

›
For more than 30 years, Michael Schultz operated one of Berlin's most prestigious galleries, focusing on contemporary European and A...
July 22, 2018

Organised crime, museum theft and bank robbery

›
On Wednesday the Berlin public prosecutor's office and the state criminal police provisionally seized 77 properties, including apar...
January 6, 2018

Conference - “20 years of the Washington Principles: Challenges for the Future”

›
Location:  Berlin, Germany Date:  Monday-Wednesday, November 26-28, 2018. Cost: Details Forthcoming Presenters:  To be Annou...
July 14, 2017

Recipe for a museum theft: 5 seized vehicles, 4 shotguns, a six-figure sum of money, and a pinch of organized crime.

›
When a giant gold coin, weighing 100 kilos was stolen from the Bode Museum in the early morning hours of March 27, 2017 it was pretty ob...