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16-659: The Rotterdam Design Award (Rotterdamse Designprijs) was an annual and later biennial design award in the Netherlands from 1993 to 2013. In the first five editions the work of the nominees were exhibited in the Kunsthal , and afterwards in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen . The winners were selected by an international jury during this exhibition, and were announced at the end of the exhibition. The winners received an amount of € 20,000, which could be spent freely. The prize

32-446: A partnership with the ALR, but they split after disagreements over strategy and control issues. The change from policies of secrecy to ones that emphasize openness was gradual, mirroring an expectation that publicizing theft is likely to promote recovery. The ALR has been widely criticised for its methods and the actions of its chairman, Radcliffe. The ALR has consistently lost money but for

48-563: A wide range of temporary exhibits. The large space available 3,300 m (36,000 sq ft) allows various exhibits in parallel. It houses seven exhibition spaces, a characteristic auditorium, and a café. The range of exhibitions presented at the Kunsthal ranges from 20th century masters to current contemporary art movements. The entrance on top of the Westzeedijk and gateway to the Museumpark

64-466: Is a conflict of interest ( Christie's ). The majority of shares are owned by its founder, Julian Radcliffe . Significant capital investment was needed so that IFAR could be computerized and so that the database made available to worldwide law enforcement agencies. In response to the growth and development of IFAR, museum officials revised some policies based on the assumption that discussing theft would scare away potential donors. The AFR initially formed

80-721: Is also a traffic intersection and meeting place for various public flows. Lately the museum had exhibitions featuring artists such as Chuck Close , Andy Warhol and Arne Quinze . And recently the exhibition Drawn: Rotterdam! One-And-A-Half-Metre-Society about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. On October 16, 2012, seven paintings were stolen from the museum. The paintings were Monet 's Waterloo Bridge and Charing Cross Bridge, London , Picasso 's Tete d'Arlequin , Gauguin 's Femme devant une fenêtre ouverte , Matisse 's La Liseuse en Blanc et Jaune , De Haan's Autoportrait , and Lucian Freud 's Woman with Eyes Closed . At

96-560: The Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam , and in the vicinity of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen . Entrance to the Kunsthal is from the Westzeedijk. The building was designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas together with project architect Fuminori Hoshino of the architectural firm OMA ( Office for Metropolitan Architecture ). Wim van Krimpen was its first director. The Kunsthal has no permanent collection, but organises

112-460: The database comprised only 20,000 items, but it grew in size nearly tenfold during its first decade. The first steps toward the ALR began with the establishment of IFAR in New York in 1969. Among other explicit goals, IFAR was created to compile information about stolen art. In response to the growth of international art thefts, IFAR began publishing the "Stolen Art Alert" in 1976. By 1990, IFAR

128-452: The number of its listed items has increased. The database is used by collectors, the art trade, insurers, and law enforcement agencies worldwide. In 1991, IFAR helped create the ALR as a commercial enterprise to expand and market the database. IFAR managed ALR's U.S. operations through 1997. In 1998, the ALR assumed full responsibility for the IFAR database, although IFAR retains ownership. In 1992,

144-559: The people responsible for this found a way in and a way out." Director of Art Loss Register suspects that the most valuable paintings were targeted and that they could be worth "hundreds of millions of euros" if legally sold at an auction. However, the paintings had been registered as stolen in their database. The alleged thieves were arrested in Romania in July 2013. They reportedly met on Tinder {{ Citation needed |reason=Reliable source needed for

160-407: The personal cash infusions of its chairman. The approach adopted by the ALR has been criticised. The ALR has contacted owners of stolen art, saying it had information but not revealing it until a fee was paid. In another instance, the ALR lied to Sotheby's , saying that paintings were not stolen. The paintings were then shipped to London, where they were seized. The ALR has likened this approach to

176-558: The stolen paintings to protect her son and the other thieves. Art Loss Register The Art Loss Register (ALR) is the world's largest database of stolen art . A computerized international database that captures information about lost and stolen art, antiques, and collectibles, the ALR is a London-based, independent, for-profit corporate offspring of the New York–based, nonprofit International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR). The range of functions served by ALR has grown as

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192-524: The time the museum was showing avant-garde art work by more than 150 artists from the Triton Foundation as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations. The theft took place that morning at around 3:00 AM. Even though the alarms had gone off the thieves had left the premises by the time police arrived. According to Rotterdam police, "The alarm system in the Kunsthal is supposed to be state of the art. We've got no reason to believe that it's not but somehow

208-446: The whole sentence|date=November 2024}}. It is unclear what happened to the paintings: Olga Dogaru, whose son, Radu, has confessed to his involvement in the theft, initially claimed that she had burned them all in an effort to protect him; however, she subsequently denied this in a court hearing. However, investigators found pigments and nails of the correct age for the stolen paintings in her fireplace. Authorities believed that Olga burned

224-538: Was director of the Rotterdam Design Prize from 1993 tot 2000. In 2007 Thimo te Duits & Gerard Forde managed the award and wrote the catalog. Towards the end in 2011 the Rotterdam design prize was organized by Stichting Designprijs Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Premsela, Dutch Institute for Design and Fashion . Kunsthal The museum is situated in the Museumpark of Rotterdam next to

240-517: Was organized annually from 1993 to 1997, after which it became a biennial prize. No edition took place in 2005. In the first years the prize was awarded to individual products of designers, architects and other participants in the field of design. Since 2007 the conceptual vision and performance in the field of the designer became its major criterion. The awarded was inaugurated by the Rotterdamse Kunststichting , where Christine de Baan

256-489: Was updating its catalogue of stolen art ten times a year. The magnitude of the problem overwhelmed what had grown to be over 20,000 manual records. While IFAR had successfully recorded the details of losses, that was only a good first step. In 1991, the ALR was established in London as a commercial company, earning fees from insurers and theft victims. Its founding shareholders included insurance and auction houses, which some think

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