Productions
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2 June 2000
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SF 10 vor 10
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The fake art museum |
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When Erna and Henk found out that they had bought a fake painting of Matisse in a well-respected gallery in Amsterdam , they decided they might as well start focusing on collecting fake paintings. In the former city hall of the village Fledder, Erna and Henk started a fake paintings museum. From Picasso to Leichtenstein and from Klee to Appel, all the movements are virtually present. The Dutch have a professional tradition in the production of fake paintings. It came out that the first fake Matisse that initiated the museum came from the counterfeiter Geert Jan Jansen , who was producing an incredible amount of fake paintings in a castle when he was caught by the French authorities. Another well-known Dutch counterfeiter was Hans van Meegeren. The couple says that there is a large amount of fake paintings on the market. The official buyers leave the fake ones, which leave them for the fake-paintings-museum. The museum still misses some important works of art, like the sunflowers of Van Gogh for example. If somebody has a spare one the fake museum is very interested to buy it.
Activities: propose idea, research, set-up & planning reportage, accompany filming.