Van Meegeren's Fake Vermeer's". essentialvermeer.com. Archived from the original on 2015-08-26 . Retrieved 2012-07-08. The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread "Interested in history - then you have found the right group". Jonathan Lopez has drawn on never-before-seen documents from dozens of archives to write a revelatory new biography of the world's most famous forger. Neither unappreciated artist nor antifascist hero, Van Meegeren emerges as an ingenious, dyed-in-the-wool crook--a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush. Lopez explores a network of illicit commerce that operated across Europe: Not only was Van Meegeren a key player in that high-stakes game in the 1920s and '30s, landing fakes with famous collectors such as Andrew Mellon, but he and his associates later cashed in on the Nazi occupation. Lopez makes a link between fasciosm and the forgers of the peirod between the two world wars, however doesn't go into it much more than stating this--so wil have to "find outfor myself" more re this--it intrigued me in relation with the uses of forgery by the Bush administration and throughout history in producing "reasons for war"--(Gulf of Tonkin Incident or the Maine explosion for exmple, as well as those used by the Germans and Israelis)--as well as in relation with roberto bolano's book of fictionl writer's bios and works Nazi Literature of the Americas--

On 12 November 1947, the Fourth Chamber of the Amsterdam Regional Court found Han van Meegeren guilty of forgery and fraud, and sentenced him to one year in prison. [49] Death [ edit ] Van Meegeren painted his last forgery between July and December 1945 in the presence of reporters and court-appointed witnesses: Jesus among the Doctors, also called Young Christ in the Temple [41] in the style of Vermeer. [42] [43] After completing the painting, he was transferred to the fortress prison Blauwkapel. Van Meegeren was released from prison in January or February 1946.

No - not for a homework assignment or a sudden budding interest in art history research. I read it because the author is a member of a Book Group here on GR that I belong to and his book was one of many selected to be read during the year. Thought I'd give it a go. It sounded intriguing after all - not a biography about a master Dutch painter, but the re-telling of the legend of a master Forger of the master painter, who collaborated with Nazis and lived (for a while) to tell about it.

De voetwassing - Het Geheugen van Nederland - Online beeldbank van Archieven, Musea en Bibliotheken". Geheugenvannederland.nl. Archived from the original on 2015-10-16 . Retrieved 2013-12-29. Bredius, Abraham (November 1937). "A new Vermeer". The Burlington Magazine. pp.210–211. Archived from the original on October 28, 2009. De Boer, H., and Pieter Koomen (1942). Photographs of the paintings of Han van Meegeren: Han van Meegeren (Teekeningen I). With a preface by Drs-Ing. E. A. van Genderen Stort. 'sGravenhage: Publishing House L. J. C. Boucher. Cisterspelende vrouw - Het Geheugen van Nederland - Online beeldbank van Archieven, Musea en Bibliotheken". Geheugenvannederland.nl. Archived from the original on 2015-10-16 . Retrieved 2013-12-29. It is a fine non-fictional book about a fraudster named Han van Meegeren who created fake Vermeer's paintings at the turn of the century. (More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_van...)PDF / EPUB File Name: The_Man_Who_Made_Vermeers_-_Jonathan_Lopez.pdf, The_Man_Who_Made_Vermeers_-_Jonathan_Lopez.epub It took Van Meegeren six years to work out his techniques, but ultimately he was pleased with his work on both artistic and deceptive levels. Two of these trial paintings were painted as if by Vermeer: Lady Reading Music, after the genuine paintings Woman in Blue Reading a Letter at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam; and Lady Playing Music, after Vermeer's Woman With a Lute Near a Window hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Van Meegeren did not sell these paintings; both are now at the Rijksmuseum. [26] Later on, however, his son Jacques van Meegeren started to fake his father's work. He made paintings in his father's style – although of much lower quality – and was able to place a perfect signature on these imitations. Many fakes – both by Jacques and by others – are still on the market. They can be recognized by their low pictorial quality, but are not always regarded as such. Van Meegeren attempted to make a career as an artist, but art critics dismissed his work. He decided to prove his talent by forging paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. Leading experts of the time accepted his paintings as genuine 17th-century works, including Dr Abraham Bredius. [4] This is a story about an up-and-coming artist (who had quite a charmed life, mind you) and his development into a fraudster who created fake Vermeer's paintings--plus he claimed he had discovered Vermeer's, non-existent, Biblical themed paintings!