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The Art Loss Register is a commercial computerized international database which captures information about lost and stolen art, antiques and collectables. It is operated by a commercial company based in London. In the U.S., the FBI maintains the National Stolen Art File, "a database of stolen art and cultural property.
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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In “Missing Masterpieces,” on view through February 10, 2021, audiences can explore high-resolution images of 12 well-known artworks that were stolen or have simply vanished over the years.
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 can also be caught up in the middle of enormous human tragedies. This is the case of a Picasso painting titled “Le peintre” (The painter) worth $1.5 million. This piece, aboard Swissair flight 111 traversing the New York – Geneva route, was part of the aircraft’s commercial cargo when the airplane crashed near Nova Scotia ...
The Gallery of Lost Art was an immersive, online exhibition that told the stories of artworks that had disappeared. Curated by Tate, designed by ISO and produced in partnership with Channel 4, with additional support from the The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the virtual exhibition explored the sometimes extraordinary and sometimes banal circumstances behind the loss of over ...
