The Forger's Spell - A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the

Zusatztext "Pacing and prose as gripping as those of the best mystery novelist. . . . The Forger's Spell is simply spellbinding." Informationen zum Autor Edward Dolnick is the author of Down the Great Unknown , The Forger’s Spell , and the Edgar Award-winning The Rescue Artist . A former chief science writer at the Boston Globe , he lives with his wife near Washington, D.C. Klappentext As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of three men and an extraordinary deception: the revered artist Johannes Vermeer; the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him years later; and the con man's mark, Hermann Goering, the fanatical art collector and one of Nazi Germany's most reviled leaders. Zusammenfassung New York Times Bestseller “Dolnick brilliantly re-creates the circumstances that made possible one of the most audacious frauds of the 20th century. And in doing so Dolnick plumbs the nature of fraud itself . . . an incomparable page turner.” —Boston Globe As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger’s Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him centuries later. For seven years a no-account painter named Han van Meegeren managed to pass off his paintings as those of one of the most beloved and admired artists who ever lived. As Edward Dolnick reveals, his true genius lay in psychological manipulation, and he came within inches of fooling the world. Instead, he landed in an Amsterdam court on trial for his life. The Forger’s Spell is the gripping, true tale of this almost perfect crime.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Dolnick
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.06.2009
• EAN: 9780060825423
• ISBN: 978-0-06-082542-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 203 mm x 21 mm
• Series: HarperPerennial; P.S.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Popular Culture, Europe, True Crime, European History, Biography: general, Germany, History of Art, Social and cultural history, Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge, Performance Art, Biography: historical, political and military, Book design and Bookbinding, True crime: serial killers and murderers, Criminal law: procedure and offences, HISTORY: WORLD, ART: Popular Culture, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, ART: History / General, TRUE CRIME: Murder / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Criminals & Outlaws, HISTORY: Europe / Germany, TRUE CRIME: Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions, DESIGN: Book, ART: European