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This snapshot caused quite a stir when it first entered the public domain as evidence in the trial of Gerhard Brun who was charged with theft from his employers at the Kunsthaus in Barden. For years this minor official had been taking small paintings from the museum's vast storage rooms, hidden beneath his overcoat, and rapidly filled his bed sitting room to such a point that when the police finally broke down his door, only a narrow corridor existed between the frames, linking his bed, basin, toilet and door. In answer to the prosecutions' claim that he was a pathological thief, Brun replied ' No man has a greater love of art than I who have given over all of my time and thoughts and comforts, having risked danger, prosecution and disgrace, forswearing all so that these images might live once more, plucked from their eternal night of oblivion.' He got eight years. |
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