Picasso Paintings Taken in Art Heist
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OLDENBURG, West Germany — Thieves carried off 25 oil paintings, including works by Pablo Picasso, and other objects worth nearly $2 million from an office building in Oldenburg, police said Saturday.
They took the paintings, silverware and a valuable rug from the fourth and fifth floors before dawn Friday after disconnecting an alarm system, said an Oldenburg police spokesman.
Oldenburg is about 30 miles east of Kiel in northern West Germany.
The spokesman said that titles of the paintings were not immediately available but that originals by German Expressionist Max Beckmann and Austrian painter Friedensreich Hundertwasser were also stolen.
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