Van Gogh’s Painting Stolen from Dutch Museum
Dutch Museum Singer Laren had been shut down due to COVID-19, and because of that, van Gogh's The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring was stolen on Monday morning.
Places that are not staple to our life are closed down all over the world due to COVID-19. Dutch Museum Singer Laren has also been shut down, and because of that, van Gogh’s The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring was stolen on Monday morning (March 30), around 3:15 am. This is a significant day for it to be stolen because it was van Gogh’s birthday.
A white panel was being used to cover the broken glass door. The police is still investigating the theft, yet it is still not clear HOW it was done. All the locals have been asked to come forward with any information that may be related to the theft.
Museum General Director Evert van Os said the Dutch Museum that houses the collection of American couple William and Anna Singer is “angry, shocked, sad” at the theft. The value of the work, which Singer Langer had borrowed on loan from the Groninger Museum voor Stad en Lande, is not well known as Van Gogh’s paintings are very rare and usually earn millions when they do show up at actions. The painting was to be showcased in the Singer Laren’s Mirror of the Soul Exhibition till May 10.
Reaction of Singer Langer Museum Director
Singer Laren museum director Jan Rudolph de Lorm stated, “I’m shocked and unbelievably annoyed that this has happened. This beautiful and moving painting by one of our greatest artists stolen – removed from the community.
It is very bad for the Groninger Museum, it is very bad for the Singer, but it is terrible for us all because art exists to be seen and shared by us, the community, to enjoy to draw inspiration from and to draw comfort from, especially in these difficult times.”
History of The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring
Van Gogh’s The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring was painted two years prior to what is considered his artist breakthrough. The 25-by-57-centimeter (10-by-22-inch) oil on paper painting which shows a brushy figure standing in a garden, with a church in the background, was made during a small period of time when van Gogh lived in the Dutch city of Nuenen, where the artist’s father served as a pastor in a parish.
Previous Thefts of van Gogh’s Works
The Dutch artist’s “Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen” was stolen twice, first in 1991 and then, after its prompt recovery, in 2002, both times from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
It was recovered the second time 14 years after the theft, when Dutch and Italian authorities traced it and another van Gogh, “View of the Sea at Schveningen,” to a town outside Naples, then known as a stronghold of the Camorra, an archipelago of crime gangs involved in drug trafficking.
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