I Was Vermeer
The Legend of the Forger Who Swindled the Nazis
(Sprache: Englisch)
The extraordinary story of Han van Meegeren, a second-rate painter who became the world's greatest art forger
The extraordinary story of Han van Meegeren, a second-rate painter who became the world's greatest art forger
The extraordinary story of Han van Meegeren, a second-rate painter who became the world's greatest art forger
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The extraordinary story of Han van Meegeren, a second-rate painter who became the world's greatest art forger
The extraordinary story of Han van Meegeren, a second-rate painter who became the world's greatest art forger
The extraordinary story of Han van Meegeren, a second-rate painter who became the world's greatest art forger
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In a century that has alternately venerated and ridiculed the notion of the original, what better revenge for the mediocre artist than to turn to forgery? The century that spawned Duchamp's urinal-turned-fountain, an art world in which American artist Mark Kostabi can pay students $8 an hour and sell the resulting 'paintings' for $30,000, can hardly carp at the chutzpah of a second-rate artist wedded to seventeenth-century ideals who palmed off his work on the most discerning connoisseurs of his time as priceless Vermeers.The Man Who Made Vermeer is the story of a paranoid, drug-addicted, alcoholic, hypochondriac painter whose journey from zero to hero earned him $50 million dollars, the acclamation of the world's press and the satisfaction of swindling the Nazis. His canvases would almost certainly be prized among the catalogue of Vermeers if he had not confessed. Half a century after his death, his handiwork is still suspected in at least four Vermeers in major galleries, andthe ugly daub sold last year at Sotheby's for $30 million (and denounced by Brian Sewell as a fake) has long been attributed to him.
The Man Who Made Vermeer takes a wry, sometimes scathing, amoral and irreverent look at forgery, the expert, and the career of a second-rate painter who became the world's greatest forger.
Autoren-Porträt von Frank Wynne
Wynne, FrankFrank Wynne is a writer and award-winning literary translator. Born in Ireland he has lived and worked in Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Buenos Aires and currently lives in San José, Costa Rica. He has translated more than a dozen major novels, among them the works of Michel Houellebecq, Frédéric Beigbeder, Pierre Mérot and the Ivorian novelist Ahmadou Kourouma. A journalist and broadcaster, he has written for the Sunday Times, the Independent, the Irish Times, Melody Maker, and Time Out.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Frank Wynne
- 2006, 288 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 0747566801
- ISBN-13: 9780747566809
Sprache:
Englisch
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