Artful Crimes, Volume 2: The Van Gogh Museum Heist

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Esther Ludlow

True Crime, Crime, Truecrime, Criminology, History, Criminals

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🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In 2002, two paintings were stolen from The Van Gogh Museum worth $30 million dollars. The investigation into this crime would involve law enforcement in several countries. Special investigators in both art crimes and organized crime units would also be brought in to solve the case of the missing Van Goghs.

Resources:
Documentary: Stealing Van Gogh (2018), Julian Hendy, Director.

“How 20 Stolen Van Gogh Paintings were Recovered” by Erik Shilling for Atlas Obscura, Sept. 30, 2016. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-20-stolen-van-gogh-paintings-were-recovered-35-minutes-after-a-heist

“As Stolen Van Goghs Return to View, a Thief Tells All” by Nina Siegal for The New York Times, Mar 19, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/19/arts/design/van-gogh-museum-theft-octave-dunham.html

“Italian police bust drug trafficking Camorra Clan”. Posted on Gangsters, Inc., Mar 21, 2017. https://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/italian-police-bust-drug-trafficking-camorra-clan-and-retrieve-st

“How Two Stolen Van Gogh Paintings Made it Home After a 14-Year Saga” by Isaac Kaplan for Artsy.Net, Mar 21, 2017. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-two-stolen-van-gogh-paintings-made-14-year-saga

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0:00.0	This podcast details true crime cases.
0:03.0	It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.
0:07.0	It is not intended for children.
0:09.0	Listen or discretion is advised. Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.
0:23.4	In this series I get to blend two of my favorite subjects, True Crime and Art History.
0:29.5	Back in season one of the podcast, I brought you the story about the life and death of the artist
0:34.0	Vincent Van Gogh. I attempted to discover whether Van Gogh had really killed himself at
0:39.1	the age of 37 as history tells us or if his death could have been a homicide. In this episode
0:45.8	I get to revisit Van Gogh one of my favorite artists to talk about a brazen
0:50.6	museum heist. Two of Van Gogh's works were stolen and what happened to
0:55.0	them would remain a mystery for 14 years. I'll unravel that story for you with
1:00.2	all its twists and turns in this final episode of the series Artful Crimes.
1:05.0	This is the case of the Van Gogh was one of the most prolific artists of the 19th century. Born in
1:26.6	1853 in the Netherlands, he only lived until the age of 37, but created over 2,000 works of art, including almost 900 oil paintings.
1:37.0	Van Gogh never received much recognition for this art while he was alive.
1:41.0	As far as we can tell, he only sold two of his paintings during his lifetime
1:46.0	and died in relative poverty, surviving on money given to him by his family,
1:50.8	namely his brother Theo.
1:53.4	Van Gogh sometimes offered his paintings to people to whom he owed money in exchange for the debt.
1:59.5	Shortly before his death in 1890, Van Gogh's works were just starting to be exhibited and
2:04.6	positively reviewed by art critics. After his death, memorial exhibitions of his
2:09.6	work were held in Brussels, Paris, Antwerp, and the Hague.
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