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	Meegeren Hans van - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Meegeren, Hans van (1889–1947), Dutch art forger, mainly of the works of Jan Vermeer, who painted in the 17th century.
		Of almost equal notoriety is the story of Hans van Meegeren; he painted a number of fake Vermeers and Pieter de Hoochs that were accepted as genuine...
		Han van Meegeren (10 October 1889 in Deventer, Overijssel – 30 December 1947 in Amsterdam), born Henricus Antonius van Meegeren, was a Dutch painter and portraitist, and is...
	encarta.msn.com /Meegeren_Hans_van.html (208 words)

	Denis Dutton on Han van Meegeren
		The artistic style of van Meegeren was then as later essentially conservative: misty interiors of old churches, Dutch scenes, religious paintings, sentimental portraits, and paintings in the genre of mystical Symbolism.
		Though van Meegeren was not unsuccessful as an artist, critics were in the 1920s increasingly negative and condescending about his work while he in turn became bitter with regard to critics and the promoters of modern art, whom he called a “slimy little group of woman-haters and negro-lovers.”
		Van Meegeren invented a story about a destitute Italian family which had owned the painting for generations and which did not want its identity revealed; he then set out to dispose of it through the Dutch dealer G.A. Boon.
	denisdutton.com /van_meegeren.htm (1356 words)

	Van Meegeren's Fake Vermeer's
		Henricus Anthonius van Meegeren was born in Deventer in1899 as the third child of Roman Catholic parents.
		When Van Meegeren moved to moved to Roquebrune, in the south of France, he was probably thoroughly convinced that there was no longer any possibility that his talent would ever be recognized by the art establishment.
		In Sept. 1937, Christ and the Disciples at Emmaus was identified by Bredius as a masterpiece by Vermeer of Delft.
	essentialvermeer.20m.com /misc/van_meegeren.htm (1998 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Han van Meegeren (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Van Meegeren was potentially in very serious trouble, as he could be charged with treason, which carried the death penalty.
		Van Meegeren thought the local art critics were mean and ignorant, and he decided to prove it by publicly embarrassing them.
		Van Meegeren found a 17th-century canvas to paint on, created his own paints from raw materials by old formulas to ensure that they were authentic, and used the same kind of brushes that Vermeer was known to have used.
	encyclopedia.kids.net.au /page/ha/Han_van_Meegeren (1196 words)

	Han Van Meegeren Encyclopedia Article @ Genuinely.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Han van Meegeren (10 October 1889 in Deventer in the Netherlands province of Overijssel – 30 December 1947 in Amsterdam), born Henricus Antonius van Meegeren, was a Dutch painter, art-restorer, and art forger.
		Han (a diminutive version of Henri or Henricus) van Meegeren was born the third child of Roman-Catholic parents in the town of Deventer.
		Van Meegeren found a 17th-century canvas to paint on, mixed his own paints from raw materials (such as 140 gram lapis lazuli, white lead, indigo, and cinnabar) using old formulas to ensure that they were authentic.
	www.genuinely.org /encyclopedia/Han_van_Meegeren (5678 words)

	The Hans van Meegeren Forgeries (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Van Meegeren did not copy a great painting and try to pass it off as an original but created new originals of his own.
		Van Meegeren hated the art establishment and a greater embarrassment he could not have hoped to cause them.
		Van Meegeren could not accurately depict anatomy or materials and was not nearly so accomplished a painter as he was a forger.
	www.chm.bris.ac.uk /webprojects2002/lhomer/Webpage/meegeren.htm (427 words)

	Han Van Meegeren - Case 3 - Part Two - Call In The Scientists!
		Han van Meegeren was able to supply the court with detailed descriptions of the process he had undergone to produce forged Vermeers.
		Van Meegeren even painted a new “old masterpiece” in his jail cell in the presence of witnesses, to demonstrate that he had the skills necessary to produce a believable forgery.
		However, as the controversy continued and with van Meegeren’s claims beginning to appear valid, the court assembled an impressive array of scientists to conduct a fresh and in-depth technical study of the 14 paintings van Meegeren claimed to have forged.
	www.udel.edu /present/debbie/ms205/meegeren/parttwo/index.html (482 words)

	The Jonathan Lopez Website
		As is fairly well known, the government of the Netherlands arrested Van Meegeren as a Nazi collaborator at the end of the Second World War, charging that he had sold a priceless Vermeer to Hermann Goering during the German occupation.
		When Van Meegeren revealed that he himself had painted Goering's prized masterpiece, the news made him quite popular with the general public, and his case was thereafter handled with kid gloves.
		All the forgeries to which Van Meegeren did ultimately confess were made during the final phase of his career, when he was working without a net -- organizing the swindles himself; finding his own middlemen; secretly directing negotiations; and pocketing the bulk of the profits.
	www.jonathanlopez.net (1202 words)

	Books \| Portrait of the artist as a copycat
		Han van Meegeren, also an artist, would stand alongside the awestruck pilgrims and pronounce: 'I can't believe they paid half a million guilders for this.
		Han van Meegeren, the subject of Frank Wynne's gripping and psychologically fascinating biography, would become the most famous forger in history.
		Van Meegeren agreed and set to work to create a facsimile, intending to pass it off as the original.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329541272-99942,00.html (868 words)

	Han van Meegeren at AllExperts
		Van Meegeren was potentially in very serious trouble, as he could be charged with treason, which carried the death penalty.
		Van Meegeren was intimately familiar with the painting techniques of the Dutch masters, and decided to produce a fake Vermeer.
		Van Meegeren found a 17th-century canvas to paint on, created his own paints from raw materials by old formulas to ensure that they were authentic, and used the same kind of brushes that Vermeer was known to have used.
	en.allexperts.com /e/h/ha/han_van_meegeren.htm (1736 words)

	Han van Meegeren – FREE Han van Meegeren Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Find Han van Meegeren Research
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	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-371752.html (603 words)

	Han van Meegeren
		The painting Doctor Boon had in his hands for inspection by a friend, the Dutch painter Han van Meegeren, who told him, that the painting came from an old Dutch family, who lived in Italy under the fascistic regime.
		In his cell van Meegeren was handed over some colours and canvas, and then he began to prove his guilt.
		During the whole case van Meegeren had been very cooperative, and in March 1947, almost two years after his confession, the result was put forward to Coremans-commission.
	www.artfakes.dk /meegeren.htm (1087 words)

	Vermeer & the Millionaire Forger: Book Review: I Was Vermeer by Frank Wynne
		Still van Meegeren sketched; his mother covered for him, and his father ultimately agreed to a compromise with his education: Han would be permitted to study architecture.
		Van Meegeren had a talent for art that was unfortunately, unmatched by timing.
		Van Meegeren had learned of the enormous power of the experts and critics in determining the value of a work; how the right words from the right person could turn an unsigned painting into a masterpiece.
	collecting-books.suite101.com /article.cfm/i_was_vermeer (547 words)

	[MSN] Frank Wynne tells the extraordinary story of Han van Meegeren, the Dutch artist whose 'Vermeer' made him a folk ...
		Van Meegeren, true to his perversely moral scheme, painted it in his own style, adding only subtle allusions to works by the Dutch master, before signing it with the requisite flourish.
		During the exhibition, van Meegeren would loudly proclaim the painting a forgery, a crude pastiche, and listen as the finest minds of his generation persuaded him that his painting was a genuine Vermeer.
		Van Meegeren - more than the prosecuting counsel - was determined that he should be found guilty of committing these "masterpieces", but even now, experts conspired against him, arguing that at least one of his forgeries might be genuine.
	msn-list.te.verweg.com /2006-August/005739.html (1433 words)

	In the Eye of the Beholder - October 4, 2006 - The New York Sun
		Han van Meegeren (1889—1947), a talented painter who despised the work of modernists such as Picasso, understood that he could only succeed as an artist by obliterating himself and becoming his 17th-century avatar, Vermeer.
		To Han, as Frank Wynne calls him throughout this lively biography, "I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger" (Bloomsbury, 276 pages, $24.95), Vermeer's radiant realism was the very embodiment of the highest art.
		Shrewdly Han worked through intermediaries, friends he coached to tell the tale of how this painting belonged to a Dutch family that preferred to remain anonymous because they had been forced to smuggle it out of Italy, fearing the Fascists would confiscate it.
	www.nysun.com /article/40870 (513 words)

	Han van Meegeren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Site dedicated to Han van Meegeren which also shows and discusses most of his forgeries.
		Van Meegeren's architecture; links to the rowing club van Meegeren designed: walltower and rowing club(sites have pictures, but comments in Dutch)
		Werness, Hope B., Han van Meegeren fecit in: Denis Dutton, ed., The Forger’s Art: Forgery and the Philosophy of Art.
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Han_van_Meegeren (1457 words)

	Art (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		Han Van Meegeren was born in 1889 in Holland.
		In 1939 Van Meegeren obliged this theory with his first of several forgeries, skillfully employing old canvases from the 17th century and inventing new techniques to simulate 300 year old works with age cracks, dust, and even faded paint.
	www.aldenfilms.com /art.html (567 words)

	The Newtown Bee
		Van Meegeren painstakingly removed the badger bristles from his shaving brushes and inserted them, one by one, so if any were caught in the paint they would be made of animal hair, which Jan Vermeer would have used.
		A trial was held in 1946 during which Van Meegeren, by then in his late 50s and hopelessly addicted to alcohol and morphine, was asked to prove his innocence.
		Eventually, Van Meegeren was convicted for forgery of Jan Vermeer's signature, alone, and though the art world vilified him, the Dutch people loved him for the fact that he had successfully swindled the Nazis.
	www.newtownbee.com /Features.asp?d=Archive2000&s=Features10-09-2003-13-12-37.htm (1457 words)

	Delft and Master Forger Han van Meegeren
		Though Han van Meegeren and Vermeer lived three centuries apart, and van Meegeren was born in Deventer and died in Amsterdam, a strong link connected the two men: Both were artists of immense talent, both loved and fostered the classical school of painting and both lived in Delft.
		Van Meegeren was a passionate admirer of Vermeer, and in the end - imitation being the sincerest form of flattery - he took that admiration to its ultimate extreme.
		Van Meegeren was complex, egocentric and neurotic, and his personal and artistic behaviour has confounded art historians (and possibly psychiatrists) up to the present.
	www.squidoo.com /delfthanvanmeegeren (1200 words)

	Cultureel Brabant CuBra auteurs Han van Meegeren
		Alwaar ik na het afronden van het Atheneum op 19 jarige leeftijd vertrok naar Leeuwarden.
		Na een mislukt jaar Welzijnsvraagstukken heb ik mij gevestigd in Tilburg om van daar uit de Grafische School in Eindhoven te bezoeken.
		Voor CuBra heb ik bijdragen gemaakt van auteurs en beeldend kunstenaars, maar ook heb ik enkele bijdragen onder eigen naam gemaakt.
	www.cubra.nl /auteurs/hanvanmeegeren/hanvanmeegeren.htm (324 words)

	Observer \| Portrait of the artist as a copycat
		Han van Meegeren, also an artist, would stand alongside the awestruck pilgrims and pronounce: 'I can't believe they paid half a million guilders for this.
		Han van Meegeren, the subject of Frank Wynne's gripping and psychologically fascinating biography, would become the most famous forger in history.
		Van Meegeren agreed and set to work to create a facsimile, intending to pass it off as the original.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329541272-102280,00.html (869 words)

	IATWM September 2006 Recommended Reading: I was Vermeer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hans van Meegeren was the mastermind behind a famous fraud.
		Van Meegeren's victim was Hermann Goering, Commander of the Luftwaffe in Nazi Germany.
		Perhaps van Meegeren began his forgery ostensibly to prove the critics wrong.
	www.iatwm.com /200609/IwasVermeer/index.html (369 words)

	Inside Britannica
		Van Meegeren's activities as a forger first came to light after World War II when an Allied art commission was established to identify and restore to their owners the works of art that had been collected by Nazi leaders.
		Arrested in 1945 and faced with charges of collaboration, van Meegeren confessed to having forged the reputed Vermeer and other paintings, stating that his original intention had been to reveal his authorship of them after the paintings had been acclaimed by critics.
		Van Meegeren was sentenced to one year in prison but died of a heart attack before beginning to serve his sentence.
	newsletters.britannica.com /sept03_articles/Meegeren.htm (264 words)

	Han Van Meegeren - Case 3- Part One - An Apparent Crime is Committed
		In 1945, Han van Meegeren was arrested by the Dutch Field Security and charged with collaborating with the Nazis.
		Van Meegeren’s defense was quite unexpected: he claimed that rather than being a traitor, he was a great patriot, because he had in fact made a fool of Hermann Göring by selling him a forgery.
		He further claimed that he himself had painted not only the work he sold to Göring, but a total of 14 “classical Dutch masterpieces” that were among some of the most famous paintings held in major Dutch collections including the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Museum Boymans in Rotterdam.
	www.udel.edu /present/debbie/ms205/meegeren/partone/index.html (274 words)

	Johannes Vermeer
		Dirk van Baburen from whom Vermeer owned a painting (which occurred twice in Vermeer's own paintings).
		Han van Meegeren (1898-1947) was a Dutch painter who liked to work in the classic tradition.
		Van Meegeren fooled everyone in the art establishment, and was only taken serious after demonstrating his skills in front of police witnesses (see article about van Meegeren for reasons why).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/Johannes_Vermeer.html (969 words)

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