A Berlin court found three men guilty of having stolen a massive 100-kilogram gold coin from the city's Bode Museum in an audacious inside job in 2017. The coin, valued at millions, has not been seen again since.
A year after priceless 18th-century jewelry sets were stolen from Dresden's Grünes Gewölbe museum, here's a look back at how the spectacular theft unfolded.
Stolen art is not alien to Düsseldorf professor Ulli Seegers, who used to run the German branch of the Art Loss Register. How does she assess the chances of recovering the stolen jewels from Dresden's Green Vault?
Fahndungserfolg nach dreistem Kunstraub
Mehr als neun Jahre nach ihrem Raub in Athen sind zwei Kunstwerke von Picasso und Mondrian wieder aufgetaucht. Die Polizei entdeckte die Gemälde in einem Lagerhaus in der Nähe der griechischen Hauptstadt.
Picassos Frauenkopf kurz vor dem Raub im Januar 2012: Schätzwert von rund 16,5 Millionen Euro
Tatort Athener Pinakothek vor neuneinhalb Jahren: Räuber dringen in das bedeutende Museum in der griechischen Haupstadt ein, reißen mehrere Kunstwerke aus ihren Rahmen und fliehen unerkannt. Nun wurden die gestohlenen Bilder aufgespürt. Die griechische Polizei konnte Pablo Picassos Frauenkopf sicherstellen, ebenso wie Piet Mondrians Mühle .
Dutch police arrest suspect in theft of Van Gogh, Hals paintings
A man has been accused of stealing two paintings, worth millions, from museums shut down during the pandemic. Neither of the famous artworks has been recovered.
Van Gogh was living with his parents when he painted the gardens of the parsonage in Neunen, where his father was pastor
Dutch police arrested a 58-year-old man on Tuesday on suspicion of stealing paintings by Vincent Van Gogh and Frans Hals from museums in the Netherlands last year.
Police said the man was held at his home in the central town of Baarn on suspicion of stealing Van Gogh s 1884 painting Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring from the Singer Laren Museum near Amsterdam where it was on loan from the Groninger Museum in March 2020; and Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer, painted by Hals in 1626, from the Museum Hofje Van Aerden in Leerdam in August of last year.