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Wolfgang Fischer was born 4 February 1951 in Höxter, Germany [10] [11] and grew up in Geilenkirchen, Germany.His father was an art restorer and muralist. According to his own statements, Beltracchi first copied a Pablo Picasso painting when he was 14 years old.
Wolfgang Beltracchi (born Wolfgang Fischer in 1951) is a German art forger and artist, [8] who has admitted to producing hundreds of fake paintings with M Feider, his mentor and mastermind behind the international art scam netting millions of Euros along with Wolfgang's wife, and two accomplices sold these as original works by famous artists ...
In 2013, it was revealed that Bouvier was a victim in the notorious case of Wolfgang Beltracchi. [10] Beltracchi is a German forger who was convicted in 2011 of having defrauded a number of collectors, including Daniel Filipacchi, of millions of dollars. [11]
Its artwork was designed and illustrated by German artist Wolfgang Beltracchi, who also designed 12 paintings that accompany each of the album's "chapters". [ 5 ] The album was recorded on Merlin, an all-in-one mobile digital studio that is the successor to a larger version of the unit named Alchemist, which Cretu operated to record Seven Lives ...
The Art of Forgery is a documentary film about Wolfgang Beltracchi and the biggest Art Forgery scandal in post war Germany, 90 min., started in German theaters in March 2014 and had its world premier at the Montreal World Film Festival. [10] [11] The film will be distributed worldwide by Global Screen. [12] The Moscow Trials.
In October 2010 Lempertz auctioned forged paintings by Wolfgang Beltracchi, including forgeries attributed to Heinrich Campendonk and Max Pechstein from a nonexistent "Jäger" collection, including the forgery of Campendonk's “Rotes Picture with horses ”at a record price of 2.4 million euros.
In a separate incident, Bouvier's purported connections to Galerie Jacques de la Béraudière and his ownership of an off-shore entity called Diva Fine Arts led him to be connected to the case of Wolfgang Beltracchi, a German forger convicted in 2011 of defrauding a number of collectors, including Daniel Filipacchi, of millions of dollars. [103]
February 4 – Wolfgang Beltracchi, born Fischer, German art forger; February 19 - Jerry Saltz, American art critic; April 16. Richard Spare, English artist and printmaker; Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, French graphic artist and sculptor; May 12 – Rosalind Savill, English art historian and curator