Many valuable paintings have been
stolen
Stolen may refer to:
Films
* ''Stolen'' (2009 Australian film), a 2009 Australian film
* ''Stolen'' (2009 American film), a 2009 American film
* ''Stolen: The Baby Kahu Story'' (2010 film), a film based on the real life kidnapping of baby Kahu ...
. The paintings listed are from masters of
Western art
The art of Europe, also known as Western art, encompasses the history of visual art in Europe. European prehistoric art started as mobile Upper Paleolithic rock and cave painting and petroglyph art and was characteristic of the period bet ...
which are valued in millions of
U.S. dollar
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s. The US
FBI
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maintains a list of "Top Ten Art Crimes"; a 2006 book by Simon Houpt,
a 2018 book by Noah Charney,
and several other media outlets have profiled the most significant outstanding losses.
Unrecovered
Rumored to be destroyed or lost
Plundered by the Nazis
Recovered
See also
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Art Recovery Group
Art Recovery International (previously Art Recovery Group) is a private company that provides due diligence, dispute resolution and art recovery services to the international art market and cultural heritage institutions. It is headquartered in Ve ...
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Art theft
Art theft, sometimes called art napping, is the stealing of paintings, sculptures, or other forms of visual art from galleries, museums or other public and private locations. Stolen art is often resold or used by criminals as collateral to ...
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Commission for Looted Art in Europe
The Commission for Looted Art in Europe is a non-profit organization, that researches looted art, and helps formulate restitution policy, for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.
It was organized in 1999. Anne Webber, and David Lewis a ...
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Looted art
Looted art has been a consequence of looting during war, natural disaster and riot for centuries. Looting of art, archaeology and other cultural property may be an opportunistic criminal act or may be a more organized case of Crime, unlawful or u ...
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Monuments Men
The Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section Unit (MFAA) was a program established by the Allies in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II. The group of about 400 service members and civilians worked ...
— Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program
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Nazi plunder
Nazi plunder () was organized stealing of art and other items which occurred as a result of the Art theft and looting during World War II, organized looting of European countries during the time of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, Germany.
Jewi ...
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Gurlitt Collection
The Gurlitt Collection (alternatively known as the "Gurlitt Trove", "Gurlitt Hoard", "Munich Art Hoard", "Schwabing Art Trove", "Schwabing Art Find", etc.) was a collection of around 1,500 art works inherited by Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of one ...
, around 1500 works amassed by
Hildebrand Gurlitt
Hildebrand Gurlitt (15 September 1895 – 9 November 1956) was a German art historian and art gallery director who dealt in Nazi-looted art as one of Hitler's and Goering's four authorized dealers for " degenerate art".
A Nazi-associated art dea ...
References
External links
FBI: Art TheftArt and Antiques Unit – New Scotland YardThe Art Loss Register
The world's largest database of stolen art
Stolen Masterpieces - Famous Stolen Oil Paintings
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