Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery () is a 2014 film by Arne Birkenstock based on the life of German art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi.https://www.globalscreen.de/content/general/190337 A mesmerizing, thought-provoking yet surprisingly amusing documentary on the life and times of Wolfgang Beltracchi, who tricked the international art world for nearly 40 years by forging and selling paintings of early 20th-century masters. A larger-than-life personality who was responsible for the biggest art forgery scandal of the postwar era.http://www.blu-ray.com/Beltracchi-The-Art-of-Forgery/322135/ For nearly 40 years, The Art of Forgery goes over nearly forty years of details of the forging and selling paintings of early 20th-century masters by Beltracchi, who was responsible for the biggest art forgery scandal of the postwar era.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS6a3XochQU BELTRACCHI - THE ART OF FORGERY Subtitled Trailer | German Currents 2014
The Art of Forgery is a Documentary film about Wolfgang Beltracchi and the biggest Art Forgery scandal in post war Germany, 90 min., started in German theaters in March 2014 and had its world premier at the Montreal World Film Festival. The film will be distributed worldwide by Global Screen.
Wolfgang Beltracchi (born Wolfgang Fischer in 1951) is a German art forger and artist, who has admitted to producing hundreds of fake paintings with M Feider, his mentor and mastermind behind the international art scam netting millions of Euros along with Wolfgang's wife, and two accomplices sold these as original works by famous artists including Max Ernst, Heinrich Campendonk, Fernand Léger and Kees van Dongen.
In 2011 Beltracchi was charged with forgery and corruption related to 14 works of art that sold for a combined $45m (£28.6m). After a 40-day trial, Beltracchi was found guilty and sentenced to six years in a German prison.bbc.co.uk Art Forger Wolfgang Beltracchi is now free and is making millions reported by the bbc.co.uk BBC.
Beltracchi stated to the BBC that he faked 'about 50' artists. Demand was so high, he said, that he could have found buyers for up to 2,000 bogus pieces, had he been inclined to paint them.
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