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DW.- Dresden thieves may need an extravagant Christmas gift.Or did they stole in the name of a gentleman who wanted to impress someone at Christmas?In truth, "the idea of the connoisseur who wants to delight with an object, is rather Hollywood movie," says Diandra Donecker, from the Grisebach auction house, in Berlin.Dresden thieves, with ax in hand, have little in common with the image of the thief knight.

"You can only expect the museum's director to receive a phone call and thieves offer him what they stole," he says.Art becomes hostage, and then we would have to pay money for its rescue: "That would be the best way to finish this terrible story".

2,500 works of art

This type of "art market", to call it that, is gigantic.Only in Germany, Austria and Switzerland stole 2.500 works of art a year, says Insurance Corridor Nikolaus Barta, specialized in art insurance, to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung: “We estimate that annual damage amount to between six and eight billion euros throughout the world”.

Now "the number of damage" does not have the same value as the one that a thief could get.Actually, works of art are really valuable only if they are known.Unknown art is not easy to sell.

The value of robbed jewels can hardly be estimated realistically.A unique, old and beautiful work of art could reach, in a legal art auction, perhaps the 100 million euros.The true material value, in this case these are gold and jewelry pieces and not oil paintings, in the art trade environment would perhaps ten million euros or less.

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"The worst that could happen ..."

"This is also the worst that could happen in the case of Dresde: that gold is founded and the precious stones are extracted," says the art market expert Donecker, "and we will never see more these works of art again," Add.

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In the case of precious stones, the value is reduced if they are sanded again and then the special sanding that had previously cannot be recognized.For this, specialists in Europe are also needed, especially in Holland.However, it is unlikely that jewelry traffickers feel safe in the Antwerp market, the most important in the sector in the world: merchants have a direct relationship with the Belgian police, and it is said that the Diamond neighborhoodMonitor 2,000 cameras.

It is easier with gold pieces;These can melt with relative ease.But then those unique works of art will have disappeared forever.This is what happened during the spectacular robbery of the gold coin "Big Maple Leaf" at the Bode Museum in Berlin, two years ago.When they caught the thieves, the currency had already been cast.

Art as a trophy

"In organized crime," reports the economic newspaper Handelsblatt, "art as a trophy is popular as a tool for exchange or security".As with the incredibly expensive bottles of burgundy wine, which end in the safe instead of the table and go from the safe in a safe as a currency as a currency.

A possible exit for art theft are insurance: "As soon as thieves realize that they cannot find a buyer, they will lookFor example, to insurance ".They are, according to Brand, relatively easy to catch.

However, in the case of Dresde, not even insurance would be an option.State museums generally do not ensure their exhibitions;They are based on the so -called state responsibility: in the event that damage occurs, the public sector is responsible for intervening, and the work of art, in most cases, disappears forever.