Madonna (Munch painting) a private home in Drammen, Norway. The fourth had been located the previous day in a private home in nearby Sande. During the court trials, Ole Christian Bach was suspected of having organized both the theft and the handling. In September 1992, Bach was sentenced to prison for seven months for handling stolen goods. On Sunday, 22 August 2004, the Munch Museum's versions of "Madonna" and "The Scream" were stolen by masked men wielding firearms. The thieves forced the museum guards to lie down on the floor while they snapped the cable securing the paintings to the wall and escaped
Jappe Nilssen the painting "The Physician Lucien Dedichen and Jappe Nilssen" in 1925–1926. Both paintings are owned by the Oslo Municipal Art Collection. A drawing by Munch shows Nilssen together with Henrik Ibsen at the Grand Cafe. The painter Ludvig Karsten also created a portrait of Nilssen in 1915. In 1891, Nilssen is said to have had an affair with Oda Krohg, who was ten years older than him and married to Christian Krohg. Edvard Munch wrote about this unhappy love affair, and it also provided the background for his 1891 painting "Melancholy". Nilssen's first novel, "Nemesis", describes the young writer Nils