July 18, from Stockholm Abergs Museum unknowns made five works created by the major artists of pop art

the early morning of July 18 in Stockholm, a major theft occurred. Unknown broke the door to the museum Aberga (Abergs Museum), stormed inside and stripped from the walls of famous works of masters of the pop art of Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol) and Roy Lichtenstein (Roy Lichtenstein). Robbers also took a poster to the old film The New Spirit, probably thinking that this is also Warhol.

Police are looking for villains in the entire Stockholm, but the search has not yielded results. Stolen masterpieces of pop art experts estimated in 500 thousand dollars.

The museum is named after the famous Swedish filmmaker, artist and musician Lasse Aberga (Lasse Aberg). In the 1960's, he was carried away by pop-art aesthetics, and in 1970 started to collect various objects associated with the film studio of Walt Disney. In 2002, Aberg, opened for its «Disney» museum collections, where among other things, you can see the Mickey-Maus and other famous cartoon character, written or drawn by well-known contemporary artists. So the emergence of Warhol and Liechtenstein in the museum was not accidental - animation as one of the most sophisticated forms of mass culture, these artists are respected. Andy Warhol, for example, has created a print depicting Donald Dhaka, repeating the very poster film The New Spirit, to catch away the culprit. The film The New Spirit, released in 1942, was created for the Ministry of Finance of the United States and had the goal to tell in animated form on the importance of timely payment of taxes.

Source: www.artdaily.com