{"id":12981,"date":"2023-10-19T20:17:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T20:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12981"},"modified":"2023-11-06T20:20:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T20:20:01","slug":"the-art-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/10\/19\/the-art-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/books\/inside-hunt-worlds-most-prolific-art-thief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from InsideHook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inside the Hunt for the World\u2019s Most Prolific Art Thief<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephane Breitwieser is believed to have stolen hundreds of artifacts, worth a total of $2 billion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/author\/ralph-jones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RALPH JONES<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ArtThief-V1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800\" alt=\"The Art Thief\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ArtThief-V1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ArtThief-V1.jpg?resize=1200,800 1200w, https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ArtThief-V1.jpg?resize=750,500 750w, https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ArtThief-V1.jpg?resize=450,300 450w, https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ArtThief-V1.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ArtThief-V1.jpg?resize=50,33 50w\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Get lost in the suspense of &#8220;The Art Thief.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the moment he read about him, Michael Finkel knew he wanted to tell Stephane Breitwieser\u2019s story. He remembers looking at newspapers and small websites, wishing to learn French at the time, discovering the Frenchman\u2019s story and becoming hooked. Breitwieser, currently serving a seven-year prison sentence, is the most prolific art thief in the history of the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three things about Breitwieser intrigued Finkel: the insane quantity of his conquests, the fact that the thief never hurt anyone during his crimes and that he professed to steal art not for money but for love. \u201cWhose heart doesn\u2019t melt a little bit right there?\u201d Finkel says over Zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s impossible, a French journalist friend warned him. Breitwieser doesn\u2019t talk to the press. This simply solidified Finkel\u2019s resolve. \u201cGame on,\u201d he said to himself. Breitwieser became the author\u2019s inspiration to learn French as quickly as possible. He wrote letters to the thief, beginning in 2012, and moved to France. It was years before Breitwieser returned Finkel\u2019s letters, but when he did, the pair spoke at such length that Finkel was able to write a book about the man. Breitwieser\u2019s story is so extraordinary that, Finkel tells me, he has sold the movie rights and is fantasizing about Timothee Chalamet playing the lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/books\/inside-hunt-worlds-most-prolific-art-thief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at IH<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from InsideHook Inside the Hunt for the World\u2019s Most Prolific Art Thief Stephane Breitwieser is believed to have stolen hundreds of artifacts, worth a total of $2 billion BY\u00a0RALPH JONES Get lost in the suspense of &#8220;The Art Thief.&#8221; From the moment he read about him, Michael Finkel knew he wanted to tell Stephane Breitwieser\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}