I Was Vermeer

The Forger Who Swindled the Nazis

Frank Wynne (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2007 | New edition
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7475-6681-6 (ISBN)

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Presents an account of greed, hubris, excess, treason and fine art, which tells the story of a failed artist and the greatest forger of all time, who executed a swindle which earned him the equivalent of fifty million dollars and the acclaim of the very critics who had mocked him.

In 1945, a small-time Dutch art dealer was arrested for selling a forgery of a priceless national treasure - a painting by Vermeer - to Hitler's right-hand man. The charge was treason, the only possible sentence death. And yet Han van Meegeren languished in his dank prison cell, incapable of uttering the words that would set him free: 'I am a forger.' This riveting account of greed, hubris, excess, treason and fine art is the story of a failed artist and the greatest forger of all time, who executed a swindle which earned him the equivalent of fifty million dollars and the acclaim of the very critics who had mocked him.

Frank Wynne is a journalist and translator and has written for, amongst other publications, the Irish Times, Melody Maker, Time Out and Attitude. Frank was born in Sligo and is now based in London.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.8.2007
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Einbandart	Paperback
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
	Kunst / Musik / Theater
ISBN-10	0-7475-6681-X / 074756681X
ISBN-13	978-0-7475-6681-6 / 9780747566816
Zustand	Neuware