A German woman from Hamburg turned herself in to the police for stealing a 16th-century painting " Normally, such a gesture would mean an unusually accurate completion of the art theft case, but the thief claims to have lost the painting, writes ARTnews.

A 31-year-old German woman filed a police report about herself for the theft of a Pieter Aertsen oil painting from a Bielefeld museum, while admitting she misplaced it in the process. https://t. co/QDMrdF5QZI.

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On April 27, until now, a woman unknown in the world of intrigue in the field of art in broad daylight took a 16th-century painting out of the frame, put it in a large folder and left the Hulsmann Museum in Bielefeld. According to the German news agency dpa, she claims to have lost her job that same evening..

Artsen, often called Lange Piet (tall Piet) because of his height, was a Dutch painter who worked in the Northern Mannerist style.. He is credited with inventing monumental genre painting, a mixture of still life and genre painting that often included biblical aspects..

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He liked to undermine the traditional hierarchies of subjects in painting.. Unlike his contemporaries, who built the action around religious images, Artsen boldly brought to the fore household items and passers-by.. A piece of meat dominates the overall mise-en-scene in his work Christ in the House of Mary and Martha (1552).. ), while Jesus and his entourage confer in the far background.

Aartsen is especially praised for his artistically rich market scenes, such as the painting of the same name, which depicts a woman surrounded by fish and people..

Returning to the story of the theft, the authorities said that an acquaintance of the Hamburg woman unsuccessfully searched her apartment in search of a painting.. The suspect did not confess to the motives of the brazen crime, the search for a work of art continues.

Recall that previously unknown drawings by Modigliani were found under the painting “Nude in a hat”.