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Lost artworks are original pieces of art that credible sources indicate once existed but that cannot be accounted for in museums or private collections or are known to have been destroyed deliberately or accidentally or neglected through ignorance and lack of connoisseurship.
Oct 31, 2023 · Another painting snatched in the same robbery as the Vermeer was The Storm of the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt van Rijn. This painting is believed to be Rembrandt’s only seascape. It depicts Jesus and the miracle of calming the Sea of Galilee from the Gospel of Mark. Painted in 1633, the painting is also amongst the most valuable missing ...
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Virtual Museum of Lost Art Asks Visitors to Help Track Down Missing Masterpieces. A new online exhibition revisits the fate of stolen or vanished paintings by the likes of van Gogh, Monet and...
Mar 15, 2017 · 15 March 2017. Paintings by the likes of Van Gogh, Klimt, and Raphael were just some of the artworks stolen or destroyed in World War Two. One such painting is The Tower of Blue Horses by Franz...
- Keith Haring’s Berlin Wall Mural
- Otto Dix’s The Trench
- Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing
In 1961, the East German government erected a barbed wire fence, and then a concrete wall with watchtowers and anti-vehicle trenches in order to prevent East Germans from escaping to the West by physically separating the areas. As a result, families and friends were separated, and the Berlin Wall became a powerful symbol of the iron curtain which s...
As a young man in 1914, German artist Otto Dix voluntarily joined the German army and fought for four years in the trenches during the First World War. During these war years, Dix made many sketches of life in the trenches. Expressionist in style, the works attempt to capture the violent energy of war through anonymous characters. Several years aft...
In the autumn of 1953, Robert Rauschenberg, 28 years old at the time, embarked on a new passion project: he wanted to explore an idea he’d had involving the erasure of an already existing artwork by one of the most highly regarded abstract expressionist artists at the time. He stated at the time: “I had been working for some time at erasing, with t...
Lost Art. A History Of Unfortunate Accidents. Detail from Medicine, Gustav Klimt, 1900-1907. Courtesy of Leopold Museum. By Pablo Anton. Throughout the centuries art works have been exposed to random misadventures, cataclysms and various Acts of God that have ended their existence.
The Gallery of Lost Art is an immersive, online exhibition that tells the fascinating stories of artworks that have disappeared. Each week, a new story of loss is added, and the evidence presented for examination
