{"id":10109,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10107"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","slug":"stolen-art-munch-s-scream-recovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/stolen-art-munch-s-scream-recovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Art: Munch&#8217;s Scream Recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OSLO, Norway \u2013 Two stolen art works, <em>The Scream<\/em> and <em>Madonna<\/em> by Edvard Munch, will return at long last to the public eye, recovered after two years in absentia. Unlike Munch&#8217;s <em>Scream,<\/em> so many other tales of stolen art are never recovered. <em>The<\/em> <em>Scream<\/em> and <em>Madonna<\/em> were snatched off the wall in broad daylight by masked gunmen in front of a group of shocked visitors at the Munch Museum in Oslo on Aug. 22, 2004. Munch&#8217;s two recovered stolen art works are now confirmed genuine, <em>The Scream<\/em> and <em>Madonna<\/em> suffering little damage despite fears by the museum and art lovers all over the world. A &#8220;successful police action&#8221; on August 31, 2006 was responsible for recovery of the paintings according to Iver Stensrud, lead police inspector for the investigation. Executed in an Expressionist style, The Scream is Munch&#8217;s best known work. Both stolen art works were painted in 1893.<br> <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For more information on Italian Renaissance Art and book recommendations, <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=10039\">click here.<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSLO, Norway \u2013 Two stolen art works, The Scream and Madonna by Edvard Munch, will return at long last to the public eye, recovered after two years in absentia. Unlike Munch&#8217;s Scream, so many other tales of stolen art are never recovered. The Scream and Madonna were snatched off the wall in broad daylight by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-news-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10306,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109\/revisions\/10306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}