BERLIN (AP).- A Caravaggio painting stolen from a museum in Ukraine two years ago was recovered by police as four men tried to sell it in Berlin, official said Monday. Police confiscated the 16th-century painting — known as “The Taking of Christ,”…
Stolen $100 Million Dollar Caravaggio Recovered in Berlin
BERLIN
— A Caravaggio painting stolen from a museum in Odessa in the Ukraine
two years
ago was recovered by police as four men tried to sell it in Berlin,
official
said Monday. Police confiscated the 17th-century painting — known as …
Fifteen Years of Collecting at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg ~ Against the Grain
WOLFSBURG, GERMANY – The foundation of the
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in 1994 simultaneously marked the launch of its
mission to build a permanent collection. Today, along with the
museum’s exhibition programme, the collection enj…
THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM SHOWS THE FRED EBB BEQUEST
New York, NY – An extraordinary collection of forty-three early-twentieth-century German and Austrian drawings by some of the leaders of the German expressionist movement and the Vienna Secession will go on view at The Morgan Library & Museum fro…
Renowned Multi-faceted German Artist Sigmar Polke Dies at Age 69
Bloomberg News – Sigmar
Polke, one of Germany’s best-known
artists, died last night from cancer at the age of 69, his dealer Erhard
Klein
said in a phone interview. Polke, a painter, graphic artist and
photographer,
was “one of t…