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The Museum of Art Fakes (German: Fälschermuseum) is a museum of faked and forged artworks that opened in Vienna, Austria in 2005. This small, privately run museum in the Landstraße district is the only one of its kind in the German-speaking world.
Oct 13, 2017 · Three types of works exist inside the museum: copies, meaning it’s a legitimate copy of an existing artwork but does not claim that it’s by the original artist—and for this museum, the ...
Fälschermuseum – Museum of Art Fakes. Das Fälschermuseum Wien, gleich vis-á-vis vom Hundertwasserhaus, ist weltweit das einzige echte Kunstfälschermuseum.
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Jun 2, 2015 · Sitting across from the famous work of architectural art, Hundertwasserhaus, one of the most original works in the world, is a small museum that takes a look at the other side of the art world...
- The Faun
- Sleeping Eros
- The Marienkirche Frescoes
- The Rospigliosi Cup
- Vase de Fleurs
- Han Van Meegeren’s Vermeers
- Mary Todd Lincoln Portrait
- Shakespeare Flower Portrait
For 10 years, an 18.5-inch ceramic sculpture of a faun attributed to French artist Paul Gauguin was a prized artwork of the Chicago Art Institute. But in 2007, it was revealedas just one of many forgeries created and sold by the Greenhalgh family of northern England—perhaps one of the most notorious family of art forgers who ever lived. The son, Sh...
Before becoming a leading sculptor of the Renaissance, Michelangelo was an art forger. In 1496, at age 21, the Italian artist carved a sleeping cupid figure in marble and treated it to appear like the ancient Roman statues that were then wildly popular. Often called Sleeping Eros, his forged antiquity was sold through art dealer Baldassarre del Mil...
When Lübeck, Germany, was bombed on March 29, 1942, the Marienkirche church was one of many historic buildings to go up in flames. As the fires raged, plaster fell off the church’s walls, uncovering long-forgotten gothic frescoes. The stunning find amid the destruction was called called “the miracleof Marienkirche" and protected by some improvised ...
In the late 1970s, research on a cache of a thousand drawings by 19th-century German goldsmith Reinhold Vasters sent anxious wavesthrough the museum world. Although they had been at the Victoria and Albert Museum since his death in 1909, no one had apparently looked at the designs too closely until a re-examination by curious scholars. That's when ...
In 2000, something strange happened at two major auction houses. Both Christie’s and Sotheby’s had the same painting in their spring catalogues: Paul Gauguin’s 1885 Vase de Fleurs (Lilas). They immediately presented the two works to a Gauguin expert, who declared that Christie’s had a forgery on its hands. Curiously, the history of both paintings i...
Following the end of World War II, the Allied Art Commission started the long task of repatriating art looted by the Nazis. In the hands of Hermann Göring they came across something unexpected: a formerly unknown painting by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. The commission tracedits sale to another Dutch artist, Han van Meegeren, who was also an art d...
For over three decades, a portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln hungin the Illinois governor’s mansion. It was attributed to famed 19th-century portrait painter Francis Bicknell Carpenter and came with a dramatic story about it being a surprise gift for President Abraham Lincoln, commissioned by his wife Mary Todd in 1864. Before she could give it to him, ...
A portrait of William Shakespeare signed with a date of 1609 was long considered by many to be a rare depiction of the English playwright created during his lifetime. That was before a 2005 investigationby art experts with the National Portrait Gallery in London determined that the oil painting on wood panel was only as old as the early 19th centur...
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Arts & Culture | March 2024. Inside the Biggest Art Fraud in History. A decades-long forgery scheme ensnared Canada’s most famous Indigenous artist, a rock musician turned sleuth and several...
Oct 19, 2017 · Vienna’ s compact Museum of Art Fakes, or Fälschermuseum, contains nearly 100 works that could easily be attributed to some of history’s most celebrated artists: Picasso, Matisse, and Monet among them.
