art thefts

Brian and Sean decide to help their father investigate the disapperance of two priceless works of art from the Redoaks Museum.

When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they continued their plunder of Europe's artistic and architectural masterpieces. On the eve of the Allied invasion, U. S. General Dwight Eisenhower appointed artist Deane Keller and Scholar Fred Hartt to leave Naples and track billions of dollars of missing art. As the German army retreated up the Italian peninsula, Nazi orders were to transport truckloads of art into the Reich. Standing in the way was top-level Nazi officer General Karl Wolff who commandeered the great collections of the Uffizi Gallery, and Pitti Palace.

In the predawn hours on a day in 1994, two thieves entered a museum in Oslo, Norway and made off with a famous painting, Edvard Munch's Scream. Norwegian police hired Charley Hill, the world's greatest art detective, to recover the painting.

The legendary names include Rothschild, Mendelssohn, Bloch-Bauer, distinguished bankers, industrialists, diplomats, and art collectors. Their diverse taste ranged from manuscripts and musical instruments to paintings by Old Masters and the avant-garde. But their stigma as Jews in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe doomed them to exile or death in Hitler's concentration camps. After years of meticulous research, Melissa M?ller and Monika Tatzkow present the tragic, compelling stories of 15 Jewish collectors, the dispersal of their extraordinary collections through forced sale and/or confiscation, and the ongoing efforts of their heirs to recover their inheritance.

Tells the riveting true story of how an American college professor turned Army sleuth recovered cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich before they could become a rallying point in the creation of a Fourth, and equally unholy, Reich.

Adolf Hitler dreamed of making Linz, Austria, his boyhood home, the artistic centerpiece of the world featuring a museum and art gallery stocked with treasures plundered from Nazi-occupied countries of Europe. This plan was not haphazard and had been meticulously organized before the war began. Hitler's men established comprehensive dossiers of art collections, both national and private, and made pre-war visits to identify worthy pieces of art.

Teenage Vidalia's summer in Paris studying art settles into a stimulating and enjoyable routine until she becomes romantically involved with a mysterious young man who seems to have ties to an art-theft ring.

Rosie and her friends find a Van Gogh painting in an old storeroom at the local theatre and wonder if it is somehow connected to the recent revelation that the Oakwood Art Museum's copy of the same painting is a forgery.

Budding sleuth Hannah West, the twelve-year-old adopted daughter of a single mom, decides to investigate when a thief targets the paintings of one of Seattle's hottest new artists just before the HONCHO charity auction.

Nancy Drew and her father try to help a member of a relatively minor royal family prove his innocence in the theft of a painting.