Elmyr de Hory
April 16, 1906 (118 years old) in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Elmyr de Hory (1905 – December 11, 1976) was a Hungarian-born painter and art forger who claimed to have sold over a thousand forgeries to reputable art galleries all over the world. His forgeries garnered much celebrity from a Clifford Irving book, Fake!, and from F for Fake (1974), a documentary essay film by Orson Welles. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
Credits
- 2008 · Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory as Himself
- 1997 · Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery as Self (archive footage)
- 1973 · F for Fake as Self