Flashcards: Art forgers

The Fortune Teller is an oil painting of circa 1630 by the French artist Georges de La Tour.

Elmyr de Hory (born Elemér Albert Hoffmann; Budapest, April 14, 1906 - Ibiza, December 11, 1976) was a Hungarian-born painter and art forger who is said to have sold over a thousand forgeries to reputable art galleries all over the world.

Jef Van der Veken (official name: Josephus Maria Vander Veken) (1872, Antwerp – 1964, Ixelles) was a Belgian art restorer, copyist and art forger, who had mastered the art of reproducing the works of the Flemish primitives.

The Spanish Forger is the name given to an unidentified individual who, in the late 19th to early 20th century, created a large number of forgeries of medieval miniatures.

Konrad Paul Kujau (27 June 1938 – 12 September 2000) was a German illustrator and forger.

Giovanni Bastianini (17 September 1830 – 29 June 1868) was an Italian sculptor who began his career as a stonecutter in the quarries at Fiesole, and was sent by Francesco Inghirami to study in Florence, first with Pio Fedi and then with Girolamo Torrini, with whom he collaborated on a statue of Donatello for the portico of the Uffizi.

Karl Feoder Sim, also known as CF Goldie (Born 6 December 1923, Mangaweka – Died 21 October 2013, North Shore Hospital) was a New Zealand art forger.

Lothar Malskat (May 3, 1913 – February 10, 1988) was a German painter and art restorer who repainted medieval frescoes of Marienkirche in Lübeck.

Otto Wacker (1898–1970) was a German art dealer who became infamous for commissioning and selling forgeries of paintings by Vincent van Gogh.

Ernest Durig (born Zurich, Switzerland, 1894; died Washington, D.C., United States, 1962) was a sculptor and art forger, known for his faking of drawings by Auguste Rodin.

Alceo Dossena (1878–1937) was an Italian sculptor.

William James Toye (born August 15, 1931) is an art forger in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Émile Schuffenecker (8 December 1851 – 31 July 1934) was a French Post-Impressionist artist, painter, art teacher and art collector.

Theo van Wijngaarden (27 February 1874, Rotterdam – 4 November 1952, Voorburg) was a Dutch art forger.

Wolfgang Beltracchi (born Wolfgang Fischer in 1951) is a German art forger and artist, who has admitted to forging hundreds of paintings in an international art scam netting millions of Euros.

Eric Hebborn (20 March 1934 – 11 January 1996) was a British painter and art forger and later an author.

Fernand Legros (French: [ləɡʁo]; 26 January 1931 – 7 April 1983) was an art dealer who, together with his lover Real Lessard, sold the art forgeries of Elmyr de Hory.

Mark Augustus Landis (born 1955) is an American painter who lives in Laurel, Mississippi.

Jacques Henri Emil van Meegeren (26 August 1912 – 26 October 1977) was a Dutch illustrator and painter.

James Orrock RI (1829 – 10 May 1913), was a prominent Scottish collector of art and oriental ceramics, illustrator and landscape watercolourist.