Munch's masterpieces stolen...*SCREAM*.

[Suzanne]

Sweet Jesus!  

BTW: I adore your improved avatar! It reminds me of Ray Caesar's Merchant[/url] for some obscure reason. They'd be such a lovely couple.

[Suzanne]

Hmmm... even though you cannot trust the police nor the media reports in the Munch Theft Case anymore, I'm adding an "update" on the arrest situation:

Fourth suspect arrested in 'Scream' heist

OSLO - Police in Norway have arrested a fourth suspect in last August's bold daylight theft of two paintings by Edvard Munch.

Like the previous three suspects, the man is in his 30s. His name was not released, but authorities did say he was taken into custody at his workplace south of Oslo on Wednesday.

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[Suzanne]

Munch is in the media again:

Scream theft museum reopens doors

The Munch Museum has reopened, 10 months after Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream was stolen.

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(Related article in the NYT)


Meanwhile, Portal Kunstgeschichte reports the discovery of a new Munch painting (in German).

[Suzanne]

Meanwhile, Portal Kunstgeschichte reports the discovery of a new Munch painting (in German).

Just found an article on the "discovery" in English.

Also, the Guardian's art section brings us a splendid Special Report[/url] on the Munch case.

[Suzanne]

Progress Party wants to rent out Munchs

The populist Progress Party (Fr.P) has made a novel proposal, suggesting that the Munch Museum rent various artworks out in order to raise funds to tend for the collection.

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[adamPadam]

In this ongoing saga of stolen Munch-paintings

Masked robbers have stolen three worthless copies of pictures by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch from an Oslo hotel.

linkydinky

 hehehee :silly:

btw: congrats with your new fancy site Suzanna. Although I found your old frontpage more charming, I'm sure the new design is better at opening up your strange and wonderfull world to surfers. :woo!:

[Suzanne]

Hehehe! Thank you very much for that hilarious update, adamPadam!

btw: congrats with your new fancy site Suzanna.

Oooooh, merci bien, cher monsieur..  

[Suzanne]

Fresh suspects in 'Scream' theft

Police in Norway said they are looking for eight new suspects thought to have been involved in the theft of Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.

"We forsee new arrests", said Iver Stensrud, the inspector in charge of the investigation.

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[Suzanne]

Unknown Munch is found in museum

Experts in Norway believe a painting found in Germany is a hitherto unknown work by Norwegian master Edvard Munch.

The painting, which has been dubbed The Girl and the Four Male Heads, was found in Bremen and taken to the Munch Museum in Oslo for evaluation.

There officials concluded that it was probably painted between 1898 and 1899.

The painting differs from Munch's style at the time. But a spokesman said it was "a period of Munch's work of which we have very little precise knowledge".

"I think many Munch researchers will be preoccupied by this painting in many different ways in future," said museum official Gerd Wold.

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[Suzanne]

The devil inside

Those who connect the frozen north with helpless melancholy and long introspective winters, reverberating with images of doom and intense depression, have their poster boys: Strindberg, Ibsen, the film-maker Ingmar Bergman, the novelist Knut Hamsun. But the most miserable northerner of them all, at least among notable artists, was undoubtedly Edvard Munch (1863-1944).

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© The Guardian

[Suzanne]

Woman arrested over Scream theft

Police in Norway have detained a woman suspected of links to the 2004 theft of Edvard Munch's painting The Scream.
The woman is believed to have been an accomplice in the theft of the 1893 work from the Munch Museum in Oslo.

She was charged with handling stolen goods after allegedly being found to have banknotes from a bank robbery in which a policeman was shot dead.

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© BBC

[Suzanne]

The Guardian's Culture Vulture Blog thinks

Stealing is wrong. And it's not funny, OK?

and brings us a hilarious update on the Scream Theft Case.

[Suzanne]

Six indicted in Munch robbery

Norwegian prosecutors handed down six indictments on Monday in connection with the theft of two of Edvard Munch's most famous paintings.

Read on

[Suzanne]

Munch theft update:

The Case of the Missing Munchs (NYT, Feb 12)

Munch Was More Than a Scream (NYT, Feb 17)

[Suzanne]

International Petty Art Thief Steals Hotel-Room Painting

Hehehe...