{"id":1613,"date":"2022-07-25T14:57:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T06:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2022-07-25T14:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T06:59:42","slug":"a-german-woman-turned-herself-in-for-a-brazen-art-theft-but-claims-she-lost-the-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/a-german-woman-turned-herself-in-for-a-brazen-art-theft-but-claims-she-lost-the-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"A German Woman Turned Herself in for a Brazen Art Theft, but Claims She Lost the Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 31-year-old woman in Hamburg, Germany, filed a police report about herself for the theft of a Pieter Aertsen oil painting from a Bielefeld museum, authorities announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, this would signal an unusually neat end to a case of\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_art-theft\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"art-theft\">art theft<\/a>\u2014except for the fact that the alleged thief misplaced the painting she said she stole.<\/p>\n<p>On April 27, a still-unidentified woman removed the 16th-century painting\u00a0<em>Portrait of a Young Woman<\/em>\u00a0from its frame in broad daylight, tucked it into a large folder, and walked out of the Museum Huelsmann in Bielefeld. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dpa<\/a>, the German news agency, she claims to have lost the work that same evening.<\/p>\n<p>Aertsen, often called Lange Piet because of his height, was a Dutch painter who worked in the Northern Mannerist style. He\u2019s credited with the invention of the monumental genre painting, a mix of still-life and genre painting that often incorporated biblical aspects.<\/p>\n<p>Aertsen liked to subvert traditional hierarchies of subject matter in painting. In contrast to his contemporaries, who framed action around religious imagery, Aertsen cheekily foregrounded everyday objects and passersby. A slab of meat dominates the frame of his\u00a0<em>Christ in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">House of Mary and Martha<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(1552), while Jesus and his company confer far in the background. He is lauded in particular for his exuberant market scenes, like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\"><em>Market<\/em>\u00a0<\/a><em>Woman with Vegetable Stall\u00a0<\/em>(1567), which depicts a bounty of produce.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said an acquaintance of the Hamburg woman searched her apartment for the painting without success. The suspect has not confessed a motive for the brazen crime, and the search for the artwork continues.<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 31-year-old woman in Hamburg, Germany, filed a police report about herself for the theft of a Pieter Aertsen oil painting from a Bielefeld museum, authorities announced on Wednesday. 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