Forgeries of art and Göring's death

Han van Meegeren was the most successful and the most influential art forger ever. Meegeren (10 October 1889 in Deventer, Overijssel - 30 December 1947 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and portraitist, who decided to prove his talent to the critics by forging paintings of some of the world's most famous artists, including Frans Hals, Pieter de Hooch, Gerard ter Borch and Johannes Vermeer. He so well replicated the styles and colours of the artists that the best art critics and experts of the time regarded his paintings as genuine and sometimes exquisite. The specialty of Meegeren was Vermeer. With his fakes after Vermeer he amassed a fortune worth more than half a billion dollars in today's currency. His most successful forgery was Supper at Emmaus, created in 1937, which later sold for about $300,000. This painting was hailed by some of the world's foremost art experts as the finest Vermeer they had ever seen. After the Meegeren exposure in 1945, a wave of self-criticism surged through the world's art museums and many an Old Master or a Vermeer disappeared from their walls. In Russia there're many similar forgeries with icons, especially in the Andrey Rublev's Central Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art, where director Gennady Popov deceives public:
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See also: http://community.livejournal.com/rublev_museum/24127.html

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