Forgery Museum Vienna

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Forgery Museum, in the background on the left the Hundertwasser House

The Counterfeiters Museum Vienna is a private museum for art forgeries in the 3rd Vienna district highway in the Löwengasse 28. It is the only of its kind in the German-speaking world.

Works by the well-known Vermeer counterfeiter Han van Meegeren and the London restorer Tom Keating , who boasted of having forged more than 2000 works by over a hundred artists and who deliberately incorporated “time bombs” and anachronisms into his pictures, will be on display. Works by the forger of the Hitler diaries Konrad Kujau can also be seen, as well as works by David Stein , Edgar Mrugalla , Elmyr de Hory , Eric Hebborn and Lothar Malskat . The visitor also learns interesting facts about the history of the most famous forgeries and the sometimes very dramatic life stories of their authors.

The small, but unusual museum due to its subject matter, has existed since 2005.

Individual evidence

  1. Market of Deceptions Donaukurier from January 10, 2008 accessed on June 19, 2009

literature

  • Eric Hebborn : Art Forger's Handbook , Dumont, 2003
  • Brian Innes: The Big Book of Forgeries , Tosa Verlag 2006
  • Tom Keating, Geraldine Norman, Frank Norman, The Fake's Progress: The Tom Keating Story , London: Hutchinson and Co., 1977

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '27.4 "  N , 16 ° 23' 35.9"  E