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Perpetrator

Han van Meegeren

Born
10 October 1889
Died
30 December 1947, aged about 58
Record
Wikidata Q436161 · Wikipedia

Perpetrator in The Van Meegeren Forgeries

Dutch painter who forged works attributed to Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch; convicted of forgery and fraud in 1947 and died before serving his sentence.

1937–1947 · Amsterdam · Convicted

Arrested in 1945 for selling a Vermeer to Göring, a Dutch painter saved himself by proving he had painted it. Then he had to prove he had faked the rest. Read the case.

Dated events

  1. Han van Meegeren is born in Deventer.

  2. Van Meegeren is arrested on suspicion of collaboration and selling Dutch cultural property to the enemy.

  3. Van Meegeren dies in an Amsterdam clinic, aged 58.