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Three men were convicted and sentenced to prison for stealing nearly 500 ancient Celtic gold coins from a German museum in 2022, with the theft occurring in just nine minutes and most of the treasure still missing or melted down.
A baroque landscape painting by Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer, stolen during World War II, has been returned to Germany after being located by Art Recovery International. The painting, titled "Landscape of Italian Character," was handed over by the FBI to a German museum representative in Chicago. The artwork had been missing since 1945 and was reported stolen from the Bavarian State Painting Collections. It will now be reunited with its counterpart and displayed at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. The recovery of the painting is a rare moment, and it will be carefully restored by the museum.
A German museum employee stole a painting from the Deutsches Museum in Munich, replaced it with a fake, and sold the original to fund a luxurious lifestyle, including purchasing a Rolls Royce and expensive wristwatches. He also stole three other artworks and successfully sold two of them. The man received a 21-month suspended sentence and was ordered to pay back the museum over 60,600 euros. The museum is making efforts to recover the stolen paintings.