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Stéphane Breitwieser (born 1 October 1971) is a French art thief and author, notorious for his art thefts between 1995 and 2001. He admitted to stealing 239 artworks and other exhibits from 172 museums while travelling around Europe and working as a waiter, an average of one theft every 15 days. [1] The Guardian called him "arguably the world ...
Art theft. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was robbed in 1990, losing paintings and items valued at over $500 million. Art theft, sometimes called artnapping, is the stealing of paintings, sculptures, or other forms of visual art from galleries, museums or other public and private locations.
Jun 19, 2023 · Now comes “The Art Thief,” which documents a different kind of crime, one that circumvents both the moral horror of murder and the mundanity of petty theft.
Jun 24, 2023 · In a new book, Michael Finkel tells the story of Stéphane Breitwieser, “perhaps the most successful and prolific art thief who has ever lived.”
Jun 27, 2023 · In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, Michael Finkel gives us one of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of our times, a riveting story of art, theft, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.
Jul 11, 2023 · The art thief who stole not for money, but to live in 'a treasure chest' Stéphane Breitwieser stole hundreds of pieces of valuable art — but he says he did it out of a love for beautiful things...
Jan 1, 2020 · These devious scammers of the art world concocted elaborate ruses that read like fiction, but all are too true.
Jun 27, 2023 · The crimes of the erudite international criminal Stéphane Breitwieser are chronicled in Michael Finkel’s new book, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession.
Jun 27, 2023 · The most audacious art thief of our age opened up about the tricks—and the hubris—that helped him swipe hundreds of pieces all across Europe.
Jan 7, 2019 · In 2001, when the police arrested Stéphane Breitwieser—a French thief who stole two hundred and thirty-nine works of art from more than a hundred museums and galleries—his mother shredded ...
