Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
December 3, 2023

Claiming Legacies: Italy, Germany, and the Post-WWII Ownership Battle for the Discobolus

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Image Credit: Exhibition Arte Liberata 1937-1947: Masterpieces Saved from War. This past week Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper stir...
January 22, 2023

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

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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.

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On 25 November 2019, burglars entered the Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe in German) museum within Dresden Castle in Saxony, Germany and smashed...
September 3, 2021

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

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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

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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.

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Image Credit: Saxony Police One year ago, on 25 November 2019, burglars entered the Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe in German) museum within Dre...
July 16, 2020

When a church loses its Madonna can cultural diplomacy help her find her way back home?

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On 9 July 1985 the Parish Church of San Felice Martire, located in S. Felice a Cancello, Italy suffered a horrendous loss.  Their gilded ...
February 25, 2020

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

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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...
January 21, 2020

Five Masters Paintings, representing the GDR's largest art theft are finally coming home, but where they have been for 40 years and who was responsible for stealing them remains a mystery

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With their authenticity confirmed, five old masters paintings,  "Portrait of an Old Man"  from the Rembrandt workshop (prob...

When fakes and false provenance go hand in hand.

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At the end of this month a German dentist from Neuss will answer to allegations of fraud in the Düsseldorf District Court for allegedly t...
October 25, 2019

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

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