April 13, 2020

playing card A3: Caravaggio: Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence

Caravaggio's painting “Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence” was created in 1609. It measures 268 x 197 cm and was stolen in Palermo in 1969. Since then it has been considered lost.
April 9, 2020

playing card F2: Joachim Kroll (* 1933 – † 1991)

Joachim Kroll was a German cannibal and serial killer. He was convicted of eight murders despite admitting fourteen murders. Kroll started his series of murders in 1955 after his mother died. He worked as a toilet man for Mannesmann, later for Thyssen-Krupp.
April 14, 2020

playing card F1: Gainsborough: Portrait Lady Cavendish (1787)

Thomas Gainsborough's painting “Portrait of Lady Georgiana Cavendish” was created in 1787. It measures 127 x 101.5 cm and was stolen from the Agnew`s Gallery in London in 1876.
April 14, 2020

playing card H2: Van Gogh: Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen (1884)

Van Gogh's painting “Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen” was created in 1884. It measures 41.3 x 32.1 cm and was stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002.
April 14, 2020

playing card G3: Camille Pissarro: Bords de la Seine à Bougival (1871)

Camille Pissarro's painting “Bords de la Seine à Bougival” was created in 1871. It measures 40 x 27 cm and was stolen from the Noortman Gallery in Maastricht in 1987.
April 14, 2020

playing card A1: Da Vinci: Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) 1506

The Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) is probably the most famous work of art in the world. The oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci has the dimensions 77cm x 53cm and was stolen from the Louvre in Paris in 1911.
April 12, 2020

playing card F3: Peter Kürten (* 1883 – † 1931)

Peter Kürten, also called Vampire from Düsseldorf, was a multiple serial killer at the beginning of the last century. He committed a series of sexual crimes, robberies and murders of children and adults.
April 14, 2020

playing card F2: J. M. W. Turner: Shade and Darkness – the Evening of the Deluge (1843)

J. M. W. Turner's painting “Shade and Darkness - the Evening of the Deluge” was created in 1843. It measures 78.7 x 78.1 cm and was stolen in 1994 at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt.
April 14, 2020

playing card C1: Govaert Flinck: Landscape with an Obelisk (1638)

Govaert Flinck's painting “Landscape with an Obelisk” was created in 1638. It measures 71 x 54.5 cm and was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Gallery Museum in Boston in 1990.
April 15, 2020

playing card D4: Goya: Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (1814)

Goya's painting “Portrait of the Duke of Wellington” was completed in 1814. It measures 52.4 x 64.3 cm and was stolen from the National Gallery in London in 1961.
April 9, 2020

playing card A1: Jeffrey Dahmer (* 1960 – † 1994)

One of the most popular serial killers in post-war history was Jeffrey Dahmer. Born the eldest son of Joyce Annett and Lionel Herbert Dahmer, he started his first murder at the age of 18. In the summer of 1978, his parents' house was available to him alone. One day he brought hitchhiker Stephen Hicks home for a beer.