“It is deeply sad,” says Tibo van de Zand. He is the son of the artist who died in 2014. The thieves are probably not art lovers, but only have an eye for the value of the bronze. “It looks like it, it’s not like they take it off neatly. They grind it off on the narrowest parts. They’re easy prey.”
And again a statue of the Bilt artist Jits Bakker has been stolen: ‘So brutal, it is a kind of murder’
