Arthur Brand (investigator)

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Arthur Brand is most famously known as a Dutch art crime investigator[1] who has recovered over 200 works of art.[2] His vocation is being an art historian and art consultant.[3][4] It is for the love of art that he takes on lost art recovery as a personal interest.[5]

Brand’s interest in stolen art recovery began when he was an exchange student in southern Spain. He met some gypsies with whom he went on a treasure hunt that resulted in the discovery of three silver Roman coins. He was inspired by that journey to begin conducting detective work on his own. He conducted research through newspapers to learn about stolen works of art.[6]

Amongst other works, he tracked down a 1600-year-old missing mosaic, and a Byzantine-era depiction of St. Mark that was stolen four decades previously.[7] He also helped recover Salvador Dali’s "Adolescence", during which CBS quoted that "He's described as the Indiana Jones of the art world".[8] Other recovered works include Tamara de Lempicka's "La Musicienne."[9] Brand was involved in the pursuit of several paintings that were stolen from the Dutch city of Hoorn.[10] He retrieved Oscar Wilde's ring, returned to Oxford University's Magdalen College and Picasso's Buste de Femme.[11] He has written 2 books[12] about his recoveries (Hitler's Horses and Het verboden Judas-evangelie en de schat van Carchemish) and there is a Dutch documentairy series about his recoveries: De Kunstdetective.

Publications[]

Brand, Arthur, and Hedley-Prole. Hitler’s Horses. Zaltbommel-Netherlands, Netherlands, Van Haren Publishing, 2021.

Brand, Anton. Het Verboden Judas Evangelie En de Schat van Carchemish / Druk 1. Aspekt, 2006.

References[]

  1. ^ Nina Segel (15 December 2015). "Stolen Dutch Art Shows Up in Ukraine, but Getting It Back Isn't Easy". New York Times. Retrieved 2018-11-19. The museum hired Arthur Brand, a Dutch art crime investigator, to go to Ukraine to negotiate with the militia, the Battalion of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
  2. ^ "Dutch paintings retrieved from the black market after more than a decade". CNN Style. 2016-10-05. Retrieved 2018-11-19.
  3. ^ "The 'Indiana Jones of the Art World' Has Found a $28 Million Picasso Stolen From a Saudi Prince's Yacht Two Decades Ago". Artnet News. 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  4. ^ "Meet the world's greatest art detective". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  5. ^ Journal, The Gentleman's. "Confessions of an art detective: Arthur Brand". The Gentleman's Journal. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  6. ^ "Meet the world's greatest art detective". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  7. ^ "Missing 1,600-year-old mosaic returned after four decades". CNN Style. 2018-11-19. Retrieved 2018-11-19.
  8. ^ "Investigator "100 percent sure" stolen art from legendary heist is in Ireland". CBS News. 12 July 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2018. He's described as the Indiana Jones of the art world
  9. ^ "How an art detective recovered two stolen multi-million pound paintings". The Independent. 2016-08-03. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  10. ^ Siegal, Nina (2015-12-15). "Stolen Dutch Art Shows Up in Ukraine, but Getting It Back Isn't Easy (Published 2015)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  11. ^ "Meet the world's greatest art detective". Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  12. ^ "Boeken". Arthur Brand (in Dutch). Retrieved 2020-10-09.


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