{"id":264,"date":"2021-05-06T03:11:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T03:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/?page_id=264"},"modified":"2021-05-28T20:10:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T20:10:55","slug":"otto-wacker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/otto-wacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Otto Wacker (1898\u20131970)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/files\/2021\/05\/D-fUBHOXkAAByAu.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182\" width=\"312\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/files\/2021\/05\/D-fUBHOXkAAByAu.jpg 623w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/files\/2021\/05\/D-fUBHOXkAAByAu-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><figcaption>Otto Wacker<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Becoming known as the \u201cWacker case, &#8221; in 1927 German art dealer Otto Wacker convinced leading Vincent van Gogh experts that he owned 33 of van Gogh\u2019s paintings. He claimed that a Russian (who who had to remain anonymous because he transferred them illegally) had purchased these paintings. A few weeks before Wacker opened an exhibit to display and sell these works, art historian and curator, Grete Ring, noticed something suspicious about these paintings. However, she could not pinpoint it (this often happens with forged works); therefore, with Walter Feilchenfeldt, they agreed that at least four of the exhibit\u2019s works were fake and ordered the rest to be examined with scientific methods. It took five years to declare that all paintings were fake, and in 1932, Wacker was sentenced to 19 months in jail.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By Caroline Scarola<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Dr. Grete Ring.&#8221; <em>The British Museum. https:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/collection\/term\/BIOG43726<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Felichenfeldt, Walter. &#8220;Van Gogh fakes: the Wacker affair, with an illustrated catalogue of the forgeries.&#8221; <em>The Fakes Controversy. <\/em>http:\/\/www.vggallery.com\/misc\/fakes\/wacker.htm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becoming known as the \u201cWacker case, &#8221; in 1927 German art dealer Otto Wacker convinced leading Vincent van Gogh experts that he owned 33 of van Gogh\u2019s paintings. He claimed that a Russian (who who had to remain anonymous because he transferred them illegally) had purchased these paintings. A few weeks before Wacker opened an&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/otto-wacker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Otto Wacker (1898\u20131970)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9137,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copiesfakesforgeries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}