THE ARCHIVE BY COUNTRY
Published reports from our archive, newest first.
A country may refer to the theft, recovery, return or legal proceedings. A case can be linked to more than one country.
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Case diagram by ArtTraceX · Julius Kien collection · Flowers in a Stoneware Vase · Brueghel workshop. Image source ↗
The Bavarian State Painting Collections returned Flowers in a Stoneware Vase, from the workshop of Jan Brueghel the Elder, to the heirs of Julius Kien.
Paintings illustrated in the contemporary Beltracchi forgery report. Photograph: DPA. Image source ↗
A Cologne court sentenced Wolfgang Beltracchi to six years in prison in a scheme involving 14 forged works attributed to artists including Max Ernst and Heinrich Campendonk. Three accomplices also received sentences after confessions in the proceedings.
The Odesa Taking of Christ, attributed to Caravaggio; attribution disputed. Image source ↗
The Taking of Christ, stolen in Odesa in 2008 and recovered in Berlin in June 2010, was handed to Ukrainian authorities on 30 August. The painting is attributed to Caravaggio; its attribution has been disputed.
Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon (1952), reproduced in black and white at the artist’s request. © Tate, via The Art Newspaper. Image source ↗
A 2001 poster campaign offered up to DM300,000 for Lucian Freud’s Francis Bacon, stolen in Berlin in 1988. Current reward validity is unconfirmed.
Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain. Image source ↗
Nazi authorities seized the painting from Georg Simon Hirschland’s collection in Essen in 1939. It was returned to his heirs in New York in 1950.
