VAN MEEGEREN'S FAKED VERMEERS

The disclosure in May 1945 and subsequent revelations that the Dutch artist Han Van Meegeren painted and sold artworks reported to be genuine Jan Vermeers, to the sum of $2,000,000, shocked and embarrassed the otherwise staid and stolid art world. "Van Meegeren's Faked Vermeers" details the discovery as well as the uncovering of a most intriguing career in art forgery. Han Van Meegeren was born in 1889 in Holland. He was originally a student of architecture at the University of Deft, but turned to art and later became a well known portrait painter in The Hague.

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Education

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• Art
• Van Meegeren
• Vermeer
• Fake
• Nazi
• Forgery
• Forgeries
• Plagiarism
• Holland
• Netherlands
• Painting
• Caravaggio
• Dutch