The most spectacular forger of works of art of the century, the lost painter Wolfgang Beltracchi, and his accomplices put into circulation paintings painted by him, claiming that they were lost, and rediscovered, masterpieces of the greatest artists of the modern age - Max Ernst, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger and many others. A crime novel with art in the main role.
Famous art galleries, museums and auction houses, curators, world-renowned experts and fake paintings, discreet billionaires in love with beauty, invented collections, unexpected innocence and tin glory, ruthless crimes with huge stakes and grandiose fortunes at stake: The Beltracchi Affair.
In love with art, and beyond measure with money, vain and greedy hunter of unknown treasures, Wolfgang Beltracchi, an artist of unrecognized talent, remains, without a doubt, the most spectacular forger of works of art of the century.
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Stefan Koldehoff is a German journalist, art market expert, cultural editor at Deutschlandfunk Köln and publishes articles in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Tageszeitung (taz), Die Zeit, Art-Das Kunstmagazin and in many other art magazines. He has written several non-fiction books on the art market, art history and especially Vincent van Gogh. In 2008, he was awarded the Puk Prize for Investigations.
Tobias Timm is a German journalist and publishes in Süddeutsche Zeitung and in Die Zeit articles on architecture, art and crime. Magazine Monopoly included the two authors on the list of the 100 most important people of the moment, in the field of art.