Arthur Brand (investigator)

Arthur Brand is a Dutch art crime investigator[1] who has recovered over 200 works of art.[2] 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.[3] He also helped recover Salvador Dali’s "Adolescence", during which CBS quoted that "He's described as the Indiana Jones of the art world".[4] Other recovered works include Tamara de Lempicka's "La Musicienne"[5] and several paintings that were stolen from the Dutch city of Hoorn. He retrieved Oscar Wilde's ring, returned to Oxford University's Magdalen College and Picasso's Buste de Femme.[6] He has written 2 books[7] 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.

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. "Missing 1,600-year-old mosaic returned after four decades". CNN Style. 2018-11-19. Retrieved 2018-11-19.
  4. "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
  5. "How an art detective recovered two stolen multi-million pound paintings". The Independent. 2016-08-03. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  6. "Meet the world's greatest art detective". Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  7. "Boeken". Arthur Brand (in Dutch). Retrieved 2020-10-09.


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