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Stolen art is not alien to Düsseldorf professor Ulli Seegers, who used to run the German branch of the Art Loss Register. How does she assess the chances of recovering the stolen jewels from Dresden's Green Vault?

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Von Dietmar Spengler Acht Uhr am Hauptbahnhof Köln, Bahnsteig 7. Anzeige: „ICE 4563 nach Berlin Hbf. fällt aus“. Angebot: Regionalbahn bis Hamm, dort umsteigen in den ICE nach Berlin. Drei Stunden Bummelbahn, 40 Minuten Wartezeit, drei weitere Stunden im überfüllten ICE, der nur bis Berlin-Spandau fährt. Was die DB vertrödelt, macht die S-Bahn wett. Von der…

A pilot project called the MuseumsLab launched earlier this month with around 20 German participants and 28 from ten African nations A bronze head of an oba, Benin, around 16th century at Bode Museum, Berlin; photo: Richard Mortel A new German government initiative is bringing together German and African museum professionals in an exchange on topics including decolonisation and restituting looted objects with the goal of fostering more international co-operation. A pilot p...

The Dresden Castle, home to the Green Vault Museum. Photo ©Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Police in Berlin have captured Abdul Majed Remmo, the fifth and final suspect connected to the shocking 2019 jewel heist at Dresden’s Green Vault Museum, or Grünes Gewölbe. Authorities had been searching for the 22-year-old man since he evaded capture in a sting operation late last year. He is the twin brother of fellow suspect Mohammed Remmo, who is already in custody. Remmo will appear bef...

BERLIN — German investigators have arrested a fifth suspect in connection with the spectacular theft of 18th-century jewels from a Dresden museum in 2019. Prosecutors in Dresden said Tuesday the 22-year-old, the twin brother of one of the men already in custody, was arrested at an apartment in Berlin on Monday evening, the dpa news agency reported. Four suspects were arrested in the German capital in November and December over the Nov. 25, 2019, theft of a large diamond brooch, a diamond e...

A Lost da Vinci? Inner Secrets Reveal Bust’s True Origins  Flora, the wax bust depicting the Roman goddess of flowers and spring, was originally purchased by the German curator Wilhelm von Bode in 1909 who claimed it was an original Da Vinci artwork. However, new research published in the journal  Scientific Reports in April 2021 shows that the bust was actually created by the British artist Richard Cockle Lucas in the early 19th century. A team of French chemists uncovered the gaffe ...