When football meets art theft…
There was an interesting article in the always excellent The Athletic on Pal Enger, a gifted young Norwegian footballer who had a second career as an art thief.
He played for Norway’s leading side Valerenga but shortly after the Winter Olympiad at Lillehammer he stole Edvard Munch’s The Scream from the National Gallery in Oslo.
One of the most famous artworks in the world was recovered by Charley Hill, art detective extraordinary, who recently passed away.
It was not his most difficult commission as Enger referred to the Scream in a notice in Dagesblatt on the birth of his son.
In prison Enger took up art.
He would make a fascinating subject of a documentary.
