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Jan Vermeer
Jan Vermeer , 1632-75, Dutch genre and landscape painter. He was born in Delft, where he spent his entire life. He was also known as Vermeer of Delft and as Jan or Johannes van der Meer. Carel Fabritius is presumed to have influenced him greatly. In 1653 he was admitted to the painters' guild, of ... Read more
forgery
forgery in art, the false claim to authenticity for a work of art. The Nature of Forgery Because the provenance of works of art is seldom clear and because their origin is often judged by means of subtle factors, art forgery has always been commonplace. The sorts of deception involved inc... Read more
Hans Memling
Hans Memling , c.1430-1494, Flemish religious and portrait painter, b. Germany. He may have studied with Roger van der Weyden in Brussels, but after 1466 he was in Bruges, working for Flemish patrons and for the many Italian businessmen there. His religious works reflect van der Weyden's figure type... Read more
Roger van der Weyden
Roger van der Weyden , c.1400-1464, major early Flemish master, known also as Roger de la Pasture. He is believed to have studied with Robert Campin. His early works also show the influence of Jan van Eyck. Van Eyck, however, had been a master at objective rendering of detail, whereas Roger in his w... Read more
secession
secession in art, any of several associations of progressive artists, especially those in Munich, Berlin, and Vienna, who withdrew from the established academic societies or exhibitions. The artists of Munich formed a secession in 1892 that spread to other German cities. The Berlin Secession spli... Read more
German art and architecture
German art and architecture artistic works produced within the region that became politically unified as Germany in 1871 generally followed the stylistic currents of Western Europe. The Carolingian and Ottonian Periods Carolingian architecture and art are commonly considered to have bee... Read more
Flemish art and architecture
Flemish art and architecture works of art and structures produced in the region of Europe known for centuries as Flanders . Netherlandish art is another term sometimes used for these works. Art produced in Flanders achieved special eminence c.1200 and in the 15th and 17th cent. Flanders was among ... Read more
Hans von Kulmbach
Hans von Kulmbach , c.1480-1522, German painter and graphic artist. His real name was Hans Süss. In general his work reveals the influence of Dürer, but he had little of the master's power. Von Kulmbach worked chiefly in Nuremberg, although he probably spent several years in Cracow as cour... Read more
Jan van der Noot
Jan van der Noot , b. 1539 or 1540, d. 1595?, Flemish poet. He wrote sonnets, odes, and other pieces in imitation of Petrarch and especially of Ronsard. ... Read more
Hendrik van Balen
Hendrik van Balen , 1575-1632, Flemish painter, b. Antwerp. Van Balen usually provided the figures for scenes in which another painter, frequently Jan Brueghel, designed the landscape settings. A minor artist, van Balen is noted mainly for his mythological scenes, of which Landscape with Two Nymphs... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "Han van Meegeren"

Meegeren, Han van
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Meegeren, Han van. See Bredius .
Bredius, Abraham
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...The Hague. His reputation as a connoisseur was blighted because he was taken in by the work of the Vermeer forger Han van Meegeren (1880–1947); however, Bredius was very old at the time (1937) and almost all his contemporaries...

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Van Meegeren's early Vermeers: Jonathan Lopez reveals that three 1920s fake Vermeers are by the notorious art forger Han van Meegeren, who, far from being an independent operator, was part of a slick operation of organised art fraud.(Johannes Vermeer)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...the notorious art forger Han van Meegeren (Fig. 2) never admitted...Netherlands arrested Van Meegeren as a Nazi collaborator...world intriguer named Theo van Wijngaarden, long known...of the fakes with Van Meegeren's contemporaneous work...
On books.(ANTIQUES)(The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han Van Meegeren by Jonathan Lopez. Harcourt, Orlando, Florida...accent of nature." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Maybe Han Van Meegeren knew this sardonic piece of advice. In any case he...
The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review; 1/1/2009; ; 494 words ; ...Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren, by Jonathan Lopez. Harcourt, August 2008. $26...Rotterdam. Lopez strips away the folk hero veneer of van Meegeren by deep research into archives and a thorough understanding...
HOW DUTCH ARTIST FORGED AND FOOLED.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 8/10/2008; 700+ words ; ...another book about Han Van Meegeren, perhaps the most...silver-haired Van Meegeren became...Lopez writes, Van Meegeren owned 57 properties...to move its two Van Meegerens step by...concludes that Van Meegeren possessed all the...
The Art of Faking
Magazine article from: Ask; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...than you'd think. Han van Meegeren, a Dutch painter who...prepared for success, van Meegeren then spent a year painting...painting. In the end, van Meegeren made several...of cobalt blue in van Meegeren's carefully mixed paint...
The Forger's Spell.(Books)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 8/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...talentless Dutch painter named Han van Meegeren managed to hoodwink the...of experimentation, van Meegeren hit on a solution...As a final touch, van Meegeren cracked the canvas over...at the chance to buy a van Meegeren forgery - a failure that...
What made him do it? Vermeers The Milkmaid.
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 11/7/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han Van Meegeren, By Jonathan Lopez. Harcourt 352 pages; $26 Somehow...portrait of master art forger and Nazi sympathizer Han Van Meegeren. The young Dutch artist began his career with promise...
IN OTHER WORDS.(Pasatiempo)
Newspaper article from: The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM); 8/15/2008; 700+ words ; ...Dolnick, Harper Collins, 349 pages Han van Meegeren was a mediocre Dutch painter whose...through them, Dolnick writes. Van Meegeren's crime might never have been...hero who began investigating Van Meegeren on suspicion that he sold Dutch...
Artist who fooled the Nazis.(Book review)
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 8/21/2006; 700+ words ; ...painter and "dealer" Han van Meegeren, who conceded that...never his motive, Van Meegeren insisted...Bakelite was Van Meegeren's little secret...the set pieces - Han waiting anxiously...believes, like Van Meegeren, that experts are...
Master Swindler; The man who took it upon himself to fill the Vermeer shortage.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/20/2008; 700+ words ; ...II, a dapper little man named Han van Meegeren, a noted art dealer, faced a...that had found its way, with Van Meegeren's help, into the hands of Reich...to alter that brute fact." But Van Meegeren could. For years critics had scorned...