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Sometime between 2002 and 2022, a guestbook documenting the visits of prominent musicians, composers, diplomats and others to the Berlin home of classical music impresarios Hermann and Louise Wolff in the early 20th century was stolen from the archives of the Berliner Philharmoniker, also known as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Hermann Wolff, born in 1865 in…

Almost twenty-five years ago, while the world was welcoming a new millennium, a painting by Paul Cézanne, “Paysage d’Auvers-sur-Oise,” also known as “View of Auvers-sur-Oise,” was stolen from the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford, England. A Little History About Where the Theft Happened The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology (“the Ashmolean”),…

Over eighty-three years ago, property belonging to Adalbert and Hilda Parlagi was confiscated by the Nazis in Vienna, Austria. That property included an early Monet pastel, “Bord du Mer,” which was returned to the Parlagi family descendants by the FBI earlier this month, through the assistance of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe. Other artwork,…

Over fifty-two years ago, in mid-March 1972, a 19th century double-barreled shotgun that had belonged to American naturalist and artist John James Audubon was stolen from the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A Little History About Where the Theft Happened The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, the oldest continuously operating science institution…

Over twenty-five years ago, between July 27 and August 2, 1998, Jean Metzinger’s early 20th century cubist painting, “Man with a Pipe,” also known as “Portrait of an American Smoking,” disappeared in transit while on loan from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. A Little History About Where the Theft Happened Lawrence University, a private liberal…