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From an ever supportive grandma “Museums didn’t have to leave all that stuff lying around.” His father of all people saw the story on the news and wrote him. Crazy that they rekindled their relationship after he was arrested. Mom is in prison because she destroyed and got rid of the art so she was probably an accessory to the crime. Anne-Catherine won’t talk to him so good for her.
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The three conjoined panels of the apothecary shop… begin to separate and warp. A skilled professional restorer can gradually untwist wood and reconnect the panels.
Breitwieser tried to fix it himself… a method one curator calls “brutal”, he forces the panels into approximate position and seals them with SUPER GLUE!
— Dec 29, 2025 05:44PM
Breitwieser tried to fix it himself… a method one curator calls “brutal”, he forces the panels into approximate position and seals them with SUPER GLUE!
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Beauty, to be unpoetic but precise, is in the medial orbital-frontal cortex of the beholder
— Dec 27, 2025 03:31PM
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The work was displayed in the museum’s entry room, the most crowded spot”
Madeline was there; then she wasn’t
A work that had hung undisturbed in the museum for 138 years, since it had been given by a private donor so the painting could be seen by the public, had just vanished like a soap bubble into the air
— Dec 26, 2025 06:18PM
Madeline was there; then she wasn’t
A work that had hung undisturbed in the museum for 138 years, since it had been given by a private donor so the painting could be seen by the public, had just vanished like a soap bubble into the air
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27 - “coup de coeur” (a blow to the heart) for the art and Anne-Catherine
37 - fou de joie (crazy joy)
— Dec 22, 2025 12:01PM
37 - fou de joie (crazy joy)
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Breitwieser is an unemployed freeloader holed up in his mother’s house.
An “art liberator”
— Dec 19, 2025 06:20PM
An “art liberator”
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Quote “Aesthetics are higher than ethics.” - Oscar Wilde
— Dec 19, 2025 05:43PM
166- she parks among the trees near the water, unloads the bags and boxes, tossing items in the canal.
On Fritsch’s property there is a pond and ten items are recovered.
167- the Virgin Mary is abandoned on the ground of a church. The tapestry, tossed in a roadside ditch and police used it as a rug under a billard table for weeks. Three copper paintings were HAMMERED TO THE ROOF OF A HENHOUSE!
168/169 - the oil paintings on wood, piled into a heap, and set on fire, in a forest… devastating. For loving art so much, he caused the destruction of so much.