Stéphane Breitwieser stole some 239 works of art with an estimated value of $2 billion from as many as 200 museums all over Europe.
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All Breitwieser wanted to do with the valuable pieces he stole was to bizarrely display them in what he considered his own personal Louvre — the small, cramped attic of his mother’s modest home in the industrial city of Mulhouse, in Eastern France, where he lived with his sweetheart. Breitwieser was in his 20s when he stole the art, mostly during a grand theft tour of France, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria from 1994 to 2001.
“So many great works of art are sexually arousing that what you’ll also want to do is install a bed nearby for when your partner is there and the timing is right,” Breitwieser explained to author Michael Finkel.But while Breitwieser claimed that “art is my drug,” the author disagrees. In this manner, Breitwieser’s tiny family attic became “less a room in the Louvre than the world’s most valuable junkyard.”Breitweiser’s mother’s house in the French suburbs, where he stored much of what he stole.
She stood guard while he found his desired work of art, and made himself appear like any other tourist — “all meant to connote serene contemplation, even while his heart is revving with excitement and fear,” writes Finkel.Nabbed for stealing a bugle in November 2001, he was jailed.But a police inspector suspected that Breitwieser was more of a serial art thief and that his loot might be far more extensive and valuable than a horn.
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