Günter Hopfinger

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Günter Hopfinger (born August 6, 1950 in Munich ) is a German artist and former counterfeiter.

He spent his childhood with foster parents near Munich. He completed a three-year apprenticeship as a chemograph and gravure etcher. He then attended the Academy of the Graphic Arts and Fine Arts in Munich. Later he worked as a graphic artist in Munich.

He achieved doubtful popularity in 1973 as "Flower Rembrandt" by tracing several dozen 1000 DM notes by hand or by rapidograph . It should have only taken about eight hours for one copy.

For this crime (making counterfeit money ) he was imprisoned for four years. The case served as a template for the crime scene episode 28 Stuttgart Blossoms , where it was played by Willy Reichert .

For example, Hopfinger's forgeries were in the exhibition Real or Fake ? to be seen in the Leipzig Museum of Printing Art in 2012.

Today Günter Hopfinger works as a freelance artist. His repertoire includes different styles.

In 2000, the Bavarian television portrayed Hopfinger as part of the documentary film series Lebenslinien (episode Today I paint a Rembrandt , director: Bernd Dost ).

In 2009 Hopfinger was sentenced to three years imprisonment as well as being placed in an alcohol rehab center because, after a night of drinking, he was said to have punched his half-sister Johanna M. in the face and kicked her.

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1. ↑ ^{a b c} Today I paint a Rembrandt , YouTube , Bayerisches Fernsehen , Lebenslinien from August 20, 2018
2. ↑ Thierry Backes, The Best Counterfeiters in the World , merkur-online.de, December 11, 2009
3. ↑ False Thousands from "Blossom Rembrandt" , October 8, 2002, on presseportal.de
4. ^ Der Spiegel, under the heading "Counterfeit money: Kölsche Mark", January 31, 1977 , last accessed on May 9, 2013.
5. ↑ Steffen Armbruster, Real or False? , on kulturstruktur.de, December 19, 2009 ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ July 27, 2009 - 45 years ago: Bundesbank issues thousand-mark notes, wdr.de, key date
7. ↑ Counterfeit money as an art object on www.mdr.de ( Memento from October 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Bettina Link, Three years imprisonment for the "Rembrandt Blossom" - Hopfinger arrives in rehab , merkur.de, April 2, 2009