Join us for a talk and book signing with New York Times bestselling author Michael Finkel, who wrote The Art Thief and The Stranger in the Woods. The Art Thief is now in paperback and available in the Museum Store.

 

In The Art Thief, Finkel brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heart’s content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts.