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The Art Of The Faker
''The Art of the Faker'' is an influential 1959 book on art forgery by Frank Arnau. Editions and translations *1959 ''Kunst der Fälscher - Fälscher der Kunst. 3000 Jahre Betrug mit Antiquitäten.'' (Original German edition) *1960 ''L'Art des faussaires et les faussaires de l'art'' (French translation by Édith Vincent) *1960 ''Arte della falsificazione, falsificazione dell'arte'' (Italian translation by Piero Bernardini, published in Milan) *1961 ''The art of the faker: three thousand years of deception in art and antiques'' (English translation by J. Maxwell Brownjohn, published in London) *1961 ''El Arte De Falsificar El Arte : Tres Mil Años De Fraudes En El Comercio De Antigüedades'' (Spanish translation by Juan Godó Costa, published in Barcelona) See also *Alceo Dossena Alceo Dossena (1878–1937) was an Italian sculptor. His dealers marketed his creations as originals by other sculptors. Biography Dossena was born in 1878 in Cremona, Italy. He was a talented stonema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Forgery
Art forgery is the creating and selling of works of art which are falsely credited to other, usually more famous artists. Art forgery can be extremely lucrative, but modern dating and analysis techniques have made the identification of forged artwork much simpler. This type of fraud is meant to mislead by creating a false provenance, or origin, of the object in order to enhance its value or prestige at the expense of the buyer. As a legal offense, it is not just the act of imitating a famous artists key characteristics in a piece of art, but the deliberate financial intent by the forger.Lenain, Theirry (2003) "Forgery". Grove Art Online. When caught, some of these forgers attempt to pass off the fakes as jokes or hoaxes on the art experts and dealers they were selling to, or on the art world as a whole. To excel in this type of forgery, the forger must pass themselves off as incredibly trustworthy and charismatic in order to recruit the necessary middlemen such as art dealers, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Arnau
Frank Arnau (March 9, 1894 – February 11, 1976) was the pseudonym of a German crime fiction writer, born as Heinrich Schmitt. Biography Arnau was born in Vienna, the son of a hotel manager. He began his literary career as a newspaper journalist. With the political ascent of Hitler, this avowed opponent of National Socialism emigrated in 1933, first to France, then in 1939 to Brazil, where he lived until 1955. There he was further active as journalist and freelance writer. After his return to Germany he worked as a freelancer for '' Stern'' magazine. Arnau wrote over a hundred books and was president of the German league for human rights. He wrote stage plays, novels, detective stories and critical studies about society and the legal system. In 1934 he described the ascent of the Nazis in his novel ''Die braune Pest'' (The Brown Plague). In 1959 he published a book about counterfeiting art, entitled ''Kunst der Fälscher – Fälscher der Kunst. 3000 Jahre Betrug mit An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brownjohn
John Maxwell Brownjohn (11 April 1929 – 6 January 2020) was a British literary translator. Career John Brownjohn translated more than 160 books, and won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German translation three times and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize once. Film Brownjohn also collaborated with the filmmaker Roman Polanski on ''Tess'' (1979), ''Pirates'' (1986), ''Bitter Moon'' (1992), ''The Ninth Gate'' (1999) and '' The Pianist'' (2002). Personal life Brownjohn was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. He died in January 2020 at the age of 90. Selected works * Frank Arnau: '' The Art of the Faker'' * Marcel Beyer: ''The Karnau Tapes'' * Willy Brandt: ''People and Politics: The Years, 1960-75'' (Schlegel-Tieck Prize) * Thomas Brussig: ''Heroes Like Us'' (Schlegel-Tieck Prize, Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize) * Thomas Glavinic: ''Night Work'' * Martin Gregor-Dellin: ''Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century'' * Lothar Günther Buchheim: ''The Boat'' * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alceo Dossena
Alceo Dossena (1878–1937) was an Italian sculptor. His dealers marketed his creations as originals by other sculptors. Biography Dossena was born in 1878 in Cremona, Italy. He was a talented stonemason and sculptor, and was so skilled at duplicating classical and medieval art, that his agent, Alfredo Fasoli sold his works as authentic antiques. Fasoli commissioned copies of Greek, Roman, medieval, and Renaissance sculptures, and of works by such artists as Giovanni Pisano, Simone Martini, and Donatello. Dossena was meagerly paid by Fasoli who made immense profit off of the copies he sold to museums and collectors. One of the fakes was a sculpted tomb attributed to Mino da Fiesole that was sold to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 1928 Dossena discovered that some of his works were displayed in museum collections as original antiques, and that his dealers were keeping most of the profit for themselves. The artist was only paid the equivalent of $200 per sale. He exposed the rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Non-fiction Books
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Art Forgery
Art forgery is the creating and selling of works of art which are falsely credited to other, usually more famous artists. Art forgery can be extremely lucrative, but modern dating and analysis techniques have made the identification of forged artwork much simpler. This type of fraud is meant to mislead by creating a false provenance, or origin, of the object in order to enhance its value or prestige at the expense of the buyer. As a legal offense, it is not just the act of imitating a famous artists key characteristics in a piece of art, but the deliberate financial intent by the forger.Lenain, Theirry (2003) "Forgery". Grove Art Online. When caught, some of these forgers attempt to pass off the fakes as jokes or hoaxes on the art experts and dealers they were selling to, or on the art world as a whole. To excel in this type of forgery, the forger must pass themselves off as incredibly trustworthy and charismatic in order to recruit the necessary middlemen such as art dealers, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
