In this Dutch name, the surname is van Meegeren, not Meegeren.
Han van Meegeren
Van Meegeren painting Jesus Among the Doctors in 1945
Born
Henricus Antonius van Meegeren
(1889-10-10)10 October 1889
Deventer, Netherlands
Died
30 December 1947(1947-12-30) (aged 58)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Occupation(s)
Painter, art forger
Spouses
Anna de Voogt
(m. 1912; div. 1923)
Jo Oerlemans
(m. 1928)
Children
Jacques Henri Emil
Henricus Antonius "Han" van Meegeren (Dutch pronunciation:[ɦɛnˈrikʏsɑnˈtoːnijəsˈɦɑɱvɑˈmeːɣərə(n)]; 10 October 1889 – 30 December 1947) was a Dutch painter and portraitist, considered one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.[1] Van Meegeren became a national hero after World War II when it was revealed that he had sold a forged painting to Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
Van Meegeren attempted to make a career as an artist, but art critics dismissed his work. He decided to prove his talent by forging paintings from the Dutch Golden Age. Leading experts of the time accepted his paintings as genuine 17th-century works, including Dr. Abraham Bredius.
During World War II, Göring purchased one of Meegeren's "Vermeers", which became one of his most prized possessions. Following the war, Van Meegeren was arrested on a charge of selling cultural property to the Nazis. Facing a possible death penalty, Van Meegeren confessed the painting was a forgery. He was convicted on 12 November 1947, and sentenced to one year in prison. However; he died on 30 December 1947 after two heart attacks. A biography in 1967 estimated that Van Meegeren duped buyers out of more than US$30 million; his victims included the government of the Netherlands.[a]
^Dutton, Denis (2005). "Authenticity in Art". In Jerrold Levinson (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. pp. 261–263. ISBN 0-19-927945-4. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
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Henricus Antonius "Han" vanMeegeren (Dutch pronunciation: [ɦɛnˈrikʏs ɑnˈtoːnijəs ˈɦɑɱ vɑˈmeːɣərə(n)]; 10 October 1889 – 30 December 1947) was a Dutch...
Emil vanMeegeren (August 26, 1912 – October 26, 1977) was a Dutch illustrator and painter. He is known for forging the work of his father, Hanvan Meegeren...
later lived in The Hague. Associated often with fellow art forger HanvanMeegeren, van Wijngaarden was a lesser artist whose legitimate income came largely...
The Man Who Made Vermeers by Jonathan Lopez, and tells the story of HanvanMeegeren (played by Guy Pearce), an art maker who swindles millions of dollars...
study to be by a 20th-century artist and forger, Theo van Wijngaarden, a friend of HanvanMeegeren. Vrij Nederland, February 26, 1996, p. 35–69. - Vermeer:...
of Vermeer's paintings by HanvanMeegeren, and in its turn the forging of VanMeegeren's work by his son Jacques vanMeegeren. In England and Wales and...
New Vermeer, Life and Work of HanvanMeegeren. Rijswijk: Quantes. pp. 54, 218 and 220 give examples of VanMeegeren fakes that were removed from their...
Vermeer) is a 2016 Dutch biographical film about art forger HanvanMeegeren directed by Rudolf van den Berg. It was listed as one of eleven films that could...
in early computer systems and Duramold. The Dutch painting forger HanvanMeegeren mixed phenol formaldehyde with his oil paints before baking the finished...
a 1622 work by Dirck van Baburen now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – is an Oil paint-Bakelite forgery by HanvanMeegeren made in the 1930s or 1940s...
paintings by Gerard Terborch and HanvanMeegeren, silver objects, and prehistoric findings). Thea Beckman's novel Het wonder van Frieswijck ("The Frieswijck...
German-speaking world. The exhibits include works by the renowned Vermeer-forger HanvanMeegeren and the British art restorer Tom Keating, who claimed to have faked...
have appeared on the market. A peculiar case was that of the artist HanvanMeegeren who became famous by creating "the finest Vermeer ever" and exposing...
announced their divorce. Pearce is in a relationship with Dutch actress Carice van Houten; they had a son in August 2016. Pearce supports charitable organisations...
War II The Last Vermeer (2019) – drama film based on the story of HanvanMeegeren, an art maker who swindled millions of dollars from the Nazis, alongside...
notable depictions may be the one painted, as a forgery of a Vermeer, by HanvanMeegeren in front of the Dutch police, in order to demonstrate that the paintings...
Johannes Vermeer on the fake "Supper at Emmaus" made by the art-forger HanvanMeegeren. However, the fact that painters' signatures often vary over time (particularly...
authentication of these poses a problem. For instance, the son of HanvanMeegeren, the well-known art-forger, forged the work of his father and provided...
HanvanMeegeren was convicted of forgery, after chemist and curator Paul B. Coremans proved that a purported Vermeer contained Bakelite, which van Meegeren...
Taken in Adultery by Max Beckmann (1917) Christ with the Adulteress by HanvanMeegeren (1942), but sold as an original Vermeer Variations of the story are...
Boston) and Woman Seated at a Virginal (National Gallery, London). HanvanMeegeren forged copy of this work which he may have intended to use as a prop...
Kenwood House Wallace Collection, London List of paintings by Frans Hals HanvanMeegeren "Hals, Frans". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press...
"pathetic duplicity" in the reception of high-quality forgeries by HanvanMeegeren of new paintings attributed to the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, before...
Trouble, with epilogue by Brian Balfour-Oatts) ISBN 0-304-35023-0 HanvanMeegeren Tom Keating (in French)Delarge Dictionnaire Death of a Forger Archived...
titled Man and Woman at a Spinet and it was proved to be a fake by HanvanMeegeren. By the time of Mannheimer's acquisition it was considered as an authentic...
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