El ladron de arte / The Art Thief, A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel
El ladron de arte / The Art Thief, A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel
El extrano e increible caso Breitwieser, la historia de una obsesion por el arte y una insaciable avidez por poseer la belleza a toda costa.
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Ha habido muchos ladrones de arte a lo largo de la historia, pero ninguno como Stephane Breitwieser. El nunca robo por dinero, sino que sustraia solo aquellas piezas cuya belleza lo embelesaba, y exponia esos tesoros en un par de habitaciones secretas de su casa, donde podia admirarlos a su antojo. Nuestro ladron tenia, ademas de una gran sensibilidad artistica, una habilidad innata para burlar casi cualquier sistema de seguridad, y consiguio perpetrar un numero asombroso de robos a plena luz del dia, sin armas ni amenazas, mientras su novia distraia a los guardias de seguridad. Pero ese talento iba unido a un creciente desprecio por el riesgo y una necesidad adictiva de fijarse nuevos retos, ignorando las suplicas de su novia para que dejara de hacerlo, hasta que un ultimo acto de arrogancia acabo con todo.
A lo largo de casi ocho anos, Breitwieser recorrio museos y catedrales de toda Europa, donde robo mas de trescientos objetos -entre ellos cuadros de Pieter Brueghel el Joven, Antoine Watteau o Francois Boucher- y llego a acumular mas de 1.400 millones de dolares en piezas de coleccionismo de primer nivel. En El ladron de arte, un autentico rompecabezas con giros que resultan casi increibles, Michael Finkel explora con brillantez la emocion de los golpes que llevo a Breitwieser a seguir adelante y narra de manera genial la historia de este avido coleccionista para quien los museos no eran mas que prisiones donde el arte se encontraba recluido.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2023: The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Lit Hub
"Enthralling." -The Wall Street Journal
In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser's strange world-unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them.
For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stephane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years-in museums and cathedrals all over Europe-Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion.
In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser's strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heart's content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict's need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend's pleas to stop-until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down.
This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.
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