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Han van Meegeren
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Fry reviews by Jonathan Lopez.
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Everyone enjoys a good art hoax, unless of course he is one of the victims. When targets include Nazi boss Hermann Goering, we have the makings of a good story. So it is that we are offered yet another book about Han Van Meegeren, perhaps the most inventive forger of the last century, whose fakes of old Dutch masters set the art world on its ear in the period before and during World War II. Art historian Jonathan Lopez has now raised the bar for any future books on the forger with "The Man Who Made Vermeers. Van Meegeren was born in the Dutch city of Deventer in 1889. He appears to have had a lonely childhood, but impressed teachers with his skill at drawing. He aspired to a career as a painter, and as a young man developed a considerable reputation as a portraitist. But Van Meegeren h...
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Han van Meegeren copied paintings by the Dutch master Vermeer. The subject of "Catch Me If You Can," Frank William Abagnale Jr., passed off $2.5 million in fake checks. Robert Smothers, of Randolph County, works in a different medium - urine.
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..., tells the amazing story of Han van Meegeren, a failed artist who turned to forging Vermeers--a...
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The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Edward Dolnick, Harper Collins, 349 pages Han van Meegeren was a mediocre Dutch painter whose most popular work, a drawing of a deer, hung over the mantels of many Dutch households in the 1930s. But as the Nazi regime rose in Germany, Van Meegeren began a second, secret career: forging "undiscovered" paintings by one of the most beloved and least prolific of the Dutch masters, Johannes Vermeer.
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If every man has a little larceny in his soul, how about a bit of forgery? The Dutch artist Han van Meegeren had enough to fill a museum gallery and, curiously, became a national hero. He was born in 1889 and as a boy was captivated when an artist and art teacher of the old school taught him that color didn't just come out of tubes. Rather, color "is something to be crafted, something you can make and control as did the great artists of the Dutch Golden Age. Rembrandt van Rijn did not buy his paints . . . nor the Master of Delft, Jan Vermeer. They worked with stone and clay, with the grinding board and muller . . . They understood how the intensity of colour fade . . . how it blanches in the light.
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...The faux Vermeers of Han van Meegeren are an example of the lucrative possibilities of a...
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By Teresa Annas The Virginian-Pilot
... of another Dutch painter, Han van Meegeren. Van Meegeren's Vermeer forgeries in the 1930s and...
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Introduction I. Forgery As Copyright Infringement A. "Forgery" Defined B. A Simple Case Of Infringement II. Utility, Copyright, And The Fine Arts A. Utility At The Founding B. The Birth Of A Utilitarian Copyright C. The Emergence Of The Philosophy Of Natural Right, Or How Copyright Came To Protect The Fine Arts III. Exposing The Pretension Of Copyright A. Doing The Utilitarian Math 1. Happiness 1 2. Suffering 0 3. Suffering 1 4. Happiness 2 B. Conclusion
... of art forgery, a Dutchman named Han van Meegeren painted works executed in the manner of Jan Vermee...
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... case of the forged Vermeer made by Van Meegeren: Van Meegeren's forged Vermeers were not copies of...
