{"id":104517,"date":"2022-07-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.artsupp.com\/art-forgers-the-story-of-wolfgang-and-helene-beltracchi\/"},"modified":"2022-07-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T10:00:00","slug":"art-forgers-the-story-of-wolfgang-and-helene-beltracchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.artsupp.com\/en\/art-forgers-the-story-of-wolfgang-and-helene-beltracchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Forgers: The Story of Wolfgang and Helene Beltracchi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Wolfgang and Helene Beltracchi<\/strong> are a German couple who gained notoriety for deceiving the art market for years by creating <strong>masterful forgeries.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Husband and wife, <strong>Wolfgang and Helene<\/strong>, as their story shows, are truly inseparable: they became millionaires thanks to his artistic skills in creating works of artists like <strong>Picasso, Cezanne, Rembrandt, and Ernst<\/strong>, while she has been the perfect partner in her husband&#8217;s illicit dealings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.artsupp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schermata-2022-07-11-alle-16.24.49-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.artsupp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schermata-2022-07-11-alle-16.24.49-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.artsupp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schermata-2022-07-11-alle-16.24.49-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.artsupp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schermata-2022-07-11-alle-16.24.49-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.artsupp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schermata-2022-07-11-alle-16.24.49-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.artsupp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schermata-2022-07-11-alle-16.24.49.jpg 1284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Wolfgang and Helene Beltracchi in their studio with a fake Ernst<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-story\"><strong>The Story<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We know that forgeries are certainly not a novelty in the art world, but the story of the <strong>Beltracchi couple<\/strong> has twists reminiscent of <strong>Bonnie and Clyde.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The artist among the two is <strong>Wolfgang Beltracchi<\/strong>, the actual creator of the works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His career as a forger actually began very early, at the age of 14, when he first copied a work by <strong>Picasso.<\/strong> After attending an art school in <strong>Aachen<\/strong>, he opened an art gallery with a partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The business was short-lived; <strong>Beltracchi<\/strong> was accused of theft, and the gallery closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact is that <strong>Wolfgang<\/strong> never gave up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the contrary, he maximized his potential as an artist and officially started his forgery business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He deserves credit for never copying existing works but for creating new ones consistent with the style of the chosen artists. The works, created with meticulous precision, were \u201cauthenticated\u201d with phantom photos in industry catalogs or hypothetical provenance from prestigious collections that could certainly not be disputed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone fell for it, even Christie\u2019s, which in 2006 included a work signed by Ernst, titled <strong>The Horde<\/strong>, in an auction, with a low estimate of \u00a32,500,000 and a high estimate of \u00a33,500,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, the work was by <strong>Beltracchi.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.artsupp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schermata-2022-07-11-alle-16.37.35-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86755\" width=\"764\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.artsupp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schermata-2022-07-11-alle-16.37.35-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.artsupp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schermata-2022-07-11-alle-16.37.35-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.artsupp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schermata-2022-07-11-alle-16.37.35-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.artsupp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schermata-2022-07-11-alle-16.37.35-600x398.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.artsupp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Schermata-2022-07-11-alle-16.37.35.jpg 1186w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Wolfgang Beltracchi in his studio near Lucerne<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-conviction-and-success-as-an-artist\"><strong>The Conviction and Success as an Artist<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After years of illicit but certainly lucrative dealings, in 2010 <strong>Wolfgang<\/strong> made that one mistake that cost him, along with his wife <strong>Helene<\/strong>, a <strong>sentence<\/strong> of six and four years in prison, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, during examinations of a canvas by <strong>Campendonk<\/strong>, the use of a white that had not yet been commercially available in 1917, the year the canvas was supposedly created, was detected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Game over for the <strong>Beltracchi<\/strong> couple, but only for a few years. Once they served their time, they got back into business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wolfgang,<\/strong> for whom the only thing to regret is having used the wrong white, has become an established artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He paints and signs &#8211; in his own name this time &#8211; the works, which he successfully sells for amounts reaching 250,000-300,000 euros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>Wolfgang and Helene Beltracchi are a German couple who gained notoriety for deceiving the art market for years by creating masterful forgeries. 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