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Chapters 1-7

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Finkel, Michael. The Art Thief. Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. Hardcover.

• In Chapter 1, Stephane Breitwieser and Anne-Catherine Kleinklaus, his girlfriend, visited the Rubens House, a museum in Antwerp, Belgium in February 1997.

• Their goal was to steal a 400-year-old ivory sculpture of Adam and Eve.

• Breitwieser had noticed on a previous visit that guards sat in the galleries until lunchtime.

• Then the security staff would rotate and go in and out of the galleries at a predictable pace.

• Tourists were a variable Breitwieser could not rule out.

• Breitwieser positioned himself in front of an oil painting while tourists went in and out.

• Kleinklaus hovered standing or sitting near the gallery’s doorway making sure she had a view of the hallway.

• When they were alone in the gallery, Breitwieser grabbed his Swiss Army knife from his...

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