In Case You Missed It: A German museum worker was sentenced for stealing and selling paintings from Munich’s Deutsches Museum, replacing the originals with fakes.
A German museum worker was sentenced for stealing paintings from his employers and replacing them with forgeries, in order to sell the real ones to fund his “luxury lifestyle,” according to a district court in Munich.
The 30-year-old man, unnamed as per German privacy law, was also convicted of stealing three other artworks from Munich’s Deutsches Museum, where he worked as a technical staffer, according to a statement published by the court on 25 September.
He sold the originals through the museum’s own auction house and used the proceeds to pay for an apartment, a Rolls Royce and expensive watches.