Wolfgang Beltracchi, the German master forger convicted of creating 14 fake artworks purported to be by the likes of Max Ernst and Heinrich Campendonk, has been released from prison. That number is a ...

According to convicted art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi, the best artists are those who paint with the “richest colors.” Whereas the art market, he says, merely favors whoever commands the highest ...

The so-called greatest art forger in history, Wolfgang Beltracchi, is back in the news. Ahead of this week’s wide-release of Beltracchi—Die Kunst der Fälschung (Beltracchi—The Art of Forgery) in ...

Wolfgang Beltracchi standing in front of a re-creation of the "Salvator Mundi" in the style of Vincent van Gogh (Image by: Alberto Venzago) Wolfgang Beltracchi standing in front of a re-creation of ...

Art world controversy and criminality has become a documentary subgenre of late, but what sets “Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery” apart is how breezily compassionate it is toward a master deceiver and ...

Wolfgang Beltracchi, the "forger of the century," created chaos in the art market with his fake paintings - and hundreds are still circulating. Now a film on the "Robin Hood of art" is showing in New ...

Wolfgang Beltracchi — the infamous German art forger — is selling thousands of NFTs of the world's most valuable painting. Beltracchi, who is best known for his decades-long scheme of forging famous ...

The longhaired sexagenarian says he didn’t intend to be a fraudster. Drawn to painting from childhood, he later would scour estate sales for work by others that he could sell to galleries; he began to ...

After decades of painting fakes, falsifying evidence and diligently covering their tracks, it was a single act of carelessness that brought the Beltracchis’ deception to light. One half of the German ...