Hue and Cry Over Massive Art Theft

October 16, 2012 from NTDTV

Millions of dollars in paintings by Picasso, Monet, Mattisse, Gauguin and other masters have been stolen from Rotterdam's Kunsthal Museum in one of the world's most brazen art heists. Thieves busted in to the museum before dawn yesterday, somehow dodging a state-of-the-art alarm system to flee with seven top works.

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Kunsthal

The Kunsthal [kʏnstɦɑl] is a museum in Rotterdam, which opened its doors in 1992. The museum is situated in the Museumpark of Rotterdam next to the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, and in the vicinity of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Entrance to the Kunsthal is from the... Explore this topic

Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam constructed in 1270 on the Rotte River, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre. Its strategic location at the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delt... Explore this topic

Paul Gauguin

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death. Gauguin was later recognized for his experimental use of colors and synthetist style that were distinguishably different from Impressionism. His work wa... Explore this topic

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the ... Explore this topic

Claude Monet

Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived f... Explore this topic

Art

Visual artwork is a piece of art created primarily for visual perception. For more information, please see the Freebase wiki page on visual artwork. Explore this topic

Impressionism

Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s in spite of harsh opposition from the art community in France. The name of the style is derived... Explore this topic

Theft

In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it. The word is also used as an informal shorthand term for some crimes against property, such as burglary, embezzleme... Explore this topic

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