Van Meegeren's Vermeers
Podcast: Hoax!Published On: Mon Feb 02 2026
Description: Arrested in 1945 for selling a Vermeer masterpiece to high-ranking Nazi Herman Goring, dutch painter Han van Meegeren had an innovative and shocking defense: he was guilty not of collaboration but of art forgery, faking half a dozen "Vermeers" over the previous decade. But under the reign of the Third Reich, where do you draw the line between opportunism and profiteering? SOURCEShttps://museumhack.com/anniversary-forgery-meegeren/https://www.essentialvermeer.com/misc/van_meegeren.htmlhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/27/dutch-masterhttps://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/03/16/han-van-meegeren-forgery-nazi-vermeer/https://www.salon.com/2016/11/27/faking-it-does-the-forged-vermeer-that-fooled-goering-belong-in-a-museum/The Man Who Made Vermeers by Jonathan LopezHow Pleasure Works by Paul Bloomhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnnkuOz08GQhttps://www.npr.org/2008/07/12/92483237/how-mediocre-dutch-artist-cast-the-forgers-spellhttps://www.thecollector.com/han-van-meegeren/Van Meegeren: The Forger Who Fooled The Nazis (BBC)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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