The 2019 Green Vault theft removed historic Baroque jewellery from Dresden’s royal treasury. In a 2024 SRF interview, its director described recovered pieces back on display, some torn apart and not yet restored. That is a dated recovery milestone, not a claim about their condition today.
We rank the disruption of a connected treasury above Oslo’s two paintings. Rotterdam comes higher for the breadth of artists lost from one exhibition. The image shows the jewel room around 1930–32, not the stolen pieces or a photograph of the crime.
Source: SRF · 2024.
Image: Paul Wolff / Deutsche Fotothek · CC0. Resized and recompressed; original rights retained.
