Research Project: How Experts Exposed Art Forgeries in the Early 20th Century
Researchers in Heidelberg and Mainz investigate the history of a historical network to combat faked artworks
Art forgeries represented a challenge to the art world and its institutions long before the sensational case around Wolfgang Beltracchi. The journal "Mittheilungen des Museen-Verbandes", i.e. the Communications from the Museums Association, which appeared from 1899 to 1939, was already publishing current events and findings about exposed faked objects and suspicious cases. ...TO READ THIS ARTICLE, CREATE YOUR ACCOUNT
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