Posted on 11/19/2004 12:16:57 PM PST by Red Badger
The head of a bust portraying Norwegian artist Edvard Munch located near his grave in Oslo had its head cut off and stolen, police said Thursday.
Only the base remains at the site of Edvard Munch's grave.
PHOTO: MORTEN HOLM - SCANPIX
This bust of painter Edvard Munch has been removed by thieves or vandals.
PHOTO: Heiki B. Nilsen / SCANPIX
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The bust by Norwegian sculptor Arne Durban of Norway's best known artist was placed on the so-called Honor Ground of Our Savior's Cemetery in 1992 by friends of the Munch Museum in Oslo.
"We don't know the exact time of the theft, but that it was sometime between Monday and today," police inspector Britt Togba of the Oslo police said Thursday. She said they were seeking evidence at the scene, and tips from the public.
Munch's body is interred in a nondescript nearby tomb in one of the city's oldest graveyards that dates back to 1808. Norwegian writers Henrik Ibsen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, who won the 1903 Nobel Literature Prize, are buried a few meters away.
So far, no trace has been found of the paintings stolen in the Aug. 22 armed robbery.
Hey, maybe somebody had a bad case of the Munchies!
Would make a unique bowling ball I suppose.
MV
Scream!
Another beheading by Islamic terrorists, I bet.
Along with the Munch kin.
Yes, it's *definiely* Friday...
Well, at least it wasn't a Munch Butt, Buttmunch, whatever..
He lived in a "Munch Housen".
What is it about this guy...they're always stealing something having to do with him!
You do it. Then ping me.
Please do and ping me.
Yep, he's buried right by his buddy Ibsen.
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