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->''Everybody's got a price''\\
''Everybody's gonna pay''\\
''Cuz the Million Dollar Man''\\
'''''Always''' gets his way! [[EvilLaugh DYAHAHAHAHAHAHA]]!''
"The Million Dollar Man" '''Ted [=DiBiase=]''' was one of the premier {{Heel}}s in the "federation years" of the WWE. Now retired, he was inducted into WWE's Hall of Fame in 2010, and has since been keeping a watchful eye over his son [[Wrestling/TedDiBiaseJr Ted [=DiBiase=] Jr.]] in his WWE run. He is a 3x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-world-t.html WWE World Tag Team Champion]] with [[Wrestling/MikeRotunda Irwin R. Schyster (Mike Rotunda)]] as Money Inc, a 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-na-h.html WWF North American Heavyweight Champion]], a 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/pwf-t.html All Japan PWF World Tag Team Champion]] with Wrestling/StanHansen and 1x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/alljapan/aj-t.html All Japan Pro Wrestling World Tag Team Champion]] also with Hansen, and held various territorial titles in the late 1970s and through most of the 1980s before arriving in Wrestling/{{WWE}} in 1987.
As usual, ThatOtherWiki has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_DiBiase a more detailed run-down of his career.]]
!!! "Every man has his trope":
* ArchEnemy: Wrestling/JunkyardDog, [[Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan]], Wrestling/HulkHogan, Wrestling/RandySavage, Wrestling/DustyRhodes, Wrestling/{{Virgil}}, the Natural Disasters ([[Wrestling/JohnTenta Earthquake]] and Typhoon), [[Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors the Legion of Doom]], [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]], the Steiner Brothers (Rick and [[Wrestling/ScottSteiner Scott]])[[note]]Both in WWE near the end of Money Inc.'s run and as a manager for the NWO in WCW. Ironically, [=DiBiase=] would himself manage the Steiners until Scott's heel turn.[[/note]], Wrestling/TheUndertaker, Wrestling/LexLuger, [[Wrestling/KevinNash Diesel]], Wrestling/BamBamBigelow (after he quit/was fired from the Million Dollar Corporation), Savio Vega
* AuthorAvatar: Ted [=DiBiase=]'s Million Dollar Man character was based on the type of wrestler WWE boss [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]] wanted to be, so he arguably could be considered this. This was years before Vince himself would [[FaceHeelTurn turn heel]] following the Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob and become the BigBad we know today.
* BashBrothers: With [[Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan]], "Maniac" Matt Borne, Wrestling/DrDeathSteveWilliams, Virgil, IRS, Wrestling/StanHansen
* BeardOfEvil
* CatchPhrase: "[[EveryManHasHisPrice Everybody's got a price]] for the Million Dollar Man!"
* DirtyCoward
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Sang his [[{{WWE}} WWF]] entrance theme.
* TheDogBitesBack: From his "servant," Wrestling/{{Virgil}}.
* EvilLaugh: And a damn good one, at that.
* {{Expy}}: Claimed in his [[{{Biography}} autobiography]] ''Every Man Has His Price'' that [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]] described the "Million-Dollar Man" [[TheGimmick gimmick]] to him as a wrestling version of Creator/DonaldTrump.
* FauxAffablyEvil
* {{Fiction 500}}
* FinishingMove: The Million Dollar Dream submission hold.
** He also used the Cobra Clutch combined with a Russian Legsweep, a top rope backwards elbow drop, and a Spinning Toe Hold at different phases of his career.
** His unique fist drop was sometimes used as this or as a SignatureMove.
* TheFundamentalist: Sort of. After he retired, he became a minister and frequently worked with Wrestling/NikitaKoloff on combined Christian/wrestling events.
* HappilyAdopted
* {{Heel}}: Probably one of the best-known characters of this archetype.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: After the famous incident in 1993 where [[Wrestling/SeanWaltman The 1-2-3 Kid]] beat [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]], Ted challenged the Kid to a match to prove how easy it was to beat "a nobody." During said match, Ted kept picking the Kid up at the count of two just to inflict more punishment. When Razor himself showed up, Dibiase decided to rub it in by attempting the most nonchalant cover imaginable... only for the Kid to crucifix him for the win. Razor, his HeelFaceTurn now complete, cracked up laughing on the outside.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: See WrestlingFamily below.
* KickTheDog: The Million Dollar Man would usually offer rewards to audience members for doing some task, but they could never pull them off. He once offered $500 to a very small child to dribble a basketball 15 times without missing. The boy did surprisingly well... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwoQ2b3k8Uo only for Ted to kick the ball out from under him at the fourteenth bounce.]]
** PetTheDog: The boy was later invited backstage, however, where he was given the $500 and got to meet the wrestlers.
** Funnily, his kicking of Cody Rhodes got him a {{face}} pop.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He bought the #30 spot in the Royal Rumble from Akeem in order to have the best chance at winning. Along with that, he tried to buy off Wrestling/BigJohnStudd so he could win the whole thing. Studd didn't bite, making the Million Dollar Man the last man eliminated. In the subsequent Rumble matches he participated in, [=DiBiase=] drew #1 in 1990, #2 in 1992, and #3 in 1993. He was even the first man eliminated from the Rumble in 1992.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste
* MoneySong: His theme, obviously, which is also an EarWorm.
* NoSell: Amazingly, he once did this after the Fabulous Freebirds gave him a spike piledriver on the ''floor''.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: He once attempted to purchase the WWF Championship off of Wrestling/HulkHogan. One [[AlternateHistory "Rewriting the Book"]] article on Website/{{WrestleCrap}} explores WhatCouldHaveBeen if Hogan had taken the deal.
** Ironically, he actually inverted this earlier in his career. While competing for "Cowboy" Bill Watts' Universal Wrestling Federation in 1986, [=DiBiase=] competed in, and was eliminated from, the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midsouth/uwf/uwf-h.html UWF World Heavyweight Title]] Tournament on May 30. ([=DiBiase=] d. [[Wrestling/UltimateWarrior Blade Runner Rock (The Ultimate Warrior)]] in the First Round and Terry Gordy d. him in a Quarter-Final Match.) [=DiBiase=]'s former manager, Wrestling/GeneralSkandorAkbar of Devastation Inc., offered him $25,000 to interfere and cost his friend [[Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan]] his semi-final match against Akbar's charge [[Wrestling/{{Kamala}} Kamala the Ugandan Giant]]. [=DiBiase=] said, "Make it $50,000." Akbar agreed, [=DiBiase=] put on his infamous black glove, and nailed KAMALA, giving Duggan the win and sending him into the finals against Gordy. (Duggan lost, but that's another story.)
* PowerStable: He was the manager of The Million Dollar Corporation: Irwin R. Schyster, Wrestling/KingKongBundy, Wrestling/NikolaiVolkoff, Wrestling/BamBamBigelow, the [=Underfaker=][[note]]Brian Harris, aka Wrestling/{{SMW}}[=/=]Wrestling/{{ECW}}'s Brian Lee and Chainz of the Disciples of Apocalypse[[/note]] Wrestling/{{Tatanka}}, Kama[[note]]Papa Shango[=/=]The Godfather[[/note]], [[Wrestling/SidEudy Sycho Sid]],[[Wrestling/SeanWaltman The 1-2-3 Kid]], [[Wrestling/BallsMahoney Xanta Klaus (Jonathan Rechner, aka SMW's Boo Bradley[=/=]ECW's Balls Mahoney)]], [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin The Ringmaster ("Stone Cold" Steve Austin)]].
** (In Mid-South/UWF): Devastation Inc.
** (In WCW): The [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder NWO]]
* PowerTrio: (in "Cowboy" Bill Watts' Mid-South/UWF): The Rat Pack, with [[Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan]] and "Maniac" Matt Borne.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: ''Inverted,'' in that The Gimmick Writes Real Life: when Ted started working as the Million Dollar Man, the WWF needed him to play the role to the hilt to protect kayfabe, so it gave him a bankroll many guys probably would have killed to have just so he could do things like travel by private jet, ride around in limos, and stay in high-class hotels.
* RedBaron: "The Million Dollar Man"!
* {{Rich B|itch}}astard
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: His son is turning into this.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Do we ''really'' have to explain this one?
** Creating his own championship, for a start.
** Averted in 1988. [=DiBiase=] paid Wrestling/AndreTheGiant to win the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-h.html WWF Championship]] from Wrestling/HulkHogan for him, and detained referee Dave Hebner backstage while Dave's EvilTwin brother Earl impersonated him to help Andre win the title; Andre tried to surrender the belt to [=DiBiase=], but the WWF refused to acknowledge Ted as the champion, and the title was declared vacant. (Andre's brief reign is still the shortest recognized WWE Championship reign in history.)
* SharpDressedMan: His entrance attire was a tux, for crying out loud!
* ShoutOut: Barney in HowIMetYourMother spent an exorbitant amount of money on a custom suit with diamond pin-stripes called "The Dibiase".
** StevenUniverse had a wrestling story arc, where Steven wrestled as "Tiger Millionaire", a clear homage to Dibiase.
* StartMyOwn: Since Ted literally couldn't buy a WWF Championship reign, he went out and had the "Million Dollar Championship" - a custom belt made of gold and diamonds - created just to prove he was the best.
** He awarded the belt to Steve Austin in 1996, and eventually, to Ted Jr. in 2010. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse The belt subsequently disappeared not long after that.]]
** In January 2000, he started his own promotion, the short-lived [=WXO=].
* TagTeam: Money Inc., with IRS.
* TakeThat: Following victories, [=DiBiase=] would stuff $100 bills into his opponents' mouths.
** This is the kayfabe distinction between the Cobra Clutch and the Million Dollar Dream (they're the same hold, otherwise).
* TricksterMentor: To his son, maybe.
* WouldntHitAGirl: One of the more common elements of RandySavage's storylines during his face run was the villains either trash-talking or outright physically harming his valet, Miss Elizabeth. [=DiBiase=] completely averted this; his focus was plain and simple: Win the title, don't worry about the girl.
* WrestlingFamily: Ted's mother Helen Nevins-[=DiBiase=] was a wrestler (as Helen Hilde), as was his adoptive father "Iron" Mike [[=DiBiase=]], and his sons Mike, Ted Jr. and Brett have all become wrestlers. Ted Jr. was signed to WWE but has since left as of the end of August 2013.
->''Some might cost a little''\\
''Some might cost a lot''\\
''But I'm the Million Dollar Man''\\
''And you '''will''' be bought! [[EvilLaugh DYAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]]''


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Han van Meegeren (October 10, 1889, Deventer, Overijssel – December 30, 1947, Amsterdam), born Henricus Antonius van Meegeren.
He was a Dutch painter and portraitist and is considered to be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
As a child, van Meegeren developed an enthusiasm for the paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, and later set out to become an artist himself. When art critics decried his work as tired and derivative, van Meegeren felt that they had destroyed his career. Thereupon, he decided to prove his talent to the critics by forging paintings of some of the world's most famous artists, including Frans Hals, Pieter de Hooch, Gerard ter Borch and Johannes Vermeer. He so well replicated the styles and colors of the artists that the best art critics and experts of the time regarded his paintings as genuine and sometimes exquisite. His most successful forgery was
Supper at Emmaus
, created in 1937 while living in the south of France. This painting was hailed by some of the world's foremost art experts as the finest Vermeer they had ever seen.
During World War II, wealthy Dutchmen, wanting to prevent a sellout of Dutch art to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, avidly bought van Meegeren's forgeries. Nevertheless, a falsified "Vermeer" ended up in the possession of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring. Following the war, the forgery was discovered in Göring's possession, and van Meegeren was arrested on May 29, 1945 as a collaborator, as officials believed that he had sold Dutch cultural property to the Nazis. This would have been an act of treason, the punishment for which was a long imprisonment, so van Meegeren fearfully confessed to the forgery. On November 12, 1947, after a brief but highly publicized trial, he was convicted of falsification and fraud charges, and was sentenced to a modest punishment of one year in prison. He never served his sentence, however; before he could be incarcerated, he suffered a heart attack and died on December 30, 1947. It is estimated that van Meegeren duped buyers, including the government of the Netherlands, out of the equivalent of more than one hundred million dollars in today's money.
Han (a diminutive version of Henri or Henricus) van Meegeren was born in 1889 as the third of five children of middle-class Roman Catholic parents in the provincial city of Deventer. He was the son of Augusta Louisa Henrietta Camps and Hendrikus Johannes van Meegeren, a French and history teacher at the Kweekschool (training college for schoolmasters) in the city of Deventer.
Early on, Han felt neglected and misunderstood by his father, as the elder van Meegeren strictly forbade his artistic development, and constantly derided him. He was often forced by his father to write a hundred times the phrase "
I know nothing, I am nothing, I am capable of nothing.
" While attending the Higher Burger School, he met teacher and painter Bartus Korteling (1853–1930), who would become his mentor. Korteling had been inspired by Johannes Vermeer and showed the young van Meegeren how Vermeer had manufactured and mixed his colors. Korteling had rejected the Impressionist movement and other modern trends, as decadent, degenerate art, and his strong personal influence probably later led van Meegeren to rebuff contemporary styles and paint exclusively in the style of the Dutch Golden Age.
Van Meegeren's father did not share his son's love of art, and instead, encouraged Han to study architecture. In 1907, van Meegeren, compelled by his father's demands, left home to study at the Technische Hogeschool (Delft Technical College), as it was called in those days, in Delft, the hometown of Johannes Vermeer. He received drawing and painting lessons as well. He easily passed his preliminary examinations, but because he did not wish to become an architect, he never took the Ingenieurs (final) examination. He nevertheless proved to be an apt architect, and in fact designed the clubhouse for his rowing club DDS in Delft. This building still exists.
In 1913, van Meegeren gave up his architecture studies and concentrated on drawing and painting at the art school in The Hague. On January 8, 1913, he received the prestigious Gold Medal from the Technical University in Delft, for his
Study of the Interior of the Church of Saint Lawrence
(Laurenskerk) in Rotterdam. The award was given every five years to an art student who created the best work, and was accompanied by a gold medal.
On April 18, 1912, van Meegeren married a fellow art student, Anna de Voogt, who was expecting their first child. The couple went to live with Anna's grandmother in Rijswijk. Their son Jacques Henri Emil was born on August 26, 1912 in Rijswijk. Jacques van Meegeren would also become a painter; he died on October 26, 1977 in Amsterdam.
In the summer of 1914 van Meegeren moved his family to Scheveningen. That year he completed the diploma examination at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. The diploma allowed him to teach, and soon he took a position as the assistant to Professor Gips, the Professor of Drawing and Art History, for the small monthly salary of 75 guldens. In March 1915 his daughter Pauline, later called Inez, was born. To supplement his income, Han sketched posters and painted pictures (generally Christmas cards, still-life, landscapes, and portraits) for the commercial art trade. Many of these paintings are quite valuable today.
Van Meegeren showed his first paintings publicly in The Hague, where they were exhibited from April to May 1917 at the Kunstzaal Pictura. In December 1919, he was accepted as a select member to the Haagse Kunstkring, an exclusive society of writers and painters, who met weekly on the premises of the Ridderzaal. In his studio at The Hague, opposite the Royal Palace Huis ten Bosch, van Meegeren would paint the tame roe deer belonging to Princess Juliana. He made many sketches and drawings of the deer, and in 1921 painted
Hertje (The fawn)
, which became quite popular in the Netherlands. He undertook numerous journeys to Belgium, France, Italy and England, and acquired a name for himself as a talented portraitist. He earned stately fees through commissions from English and American socialites who spent their winter vacations on the Côte d'Azur. His clients were impressed by his understanding of the 17th-century techniques of the Dutch masters. Throughout his life van Meegeren signed his own paintings with his own signature.
By all accounts, infidelity was responsible for the breakup of van Meegeren's marriage to Anna de Voogt; they were divorced on July 19, 1923. Anna left with the children and moved to Paris where, from time to time, van Meegeren visited his children. He now dedicated himself to portraiture and began producing forgeries to increase his income.
In 1928, he was remarried, in Woerden, to the raffish actress Johanna Theresia Oerlemans, also known under her stage name Jo van Walraven, with whom he had been living for the past three years. Jo had previously been married to art critic and journalist Dr. C H. de Boer (Karel de Boer), and she brought their daughter, Viola, into the van Meegeren household.
In the Netherlands, Han van Meegeren had become a well-known painter.
(1921) and
(1928) were particularly popular. His first legitimate copies were painted in 1923 – his
Laughing Cavalier
Happy Smoker
– both in the style of Frans Hals. By 1928, the similarity of van Meegeren's paintings to those of the old masters began to draw the reproach of Dutch art critics, who were, at that time, more interested in the Cubist, Surrealist, and other movements. It was said that van Meegeren's gift was in imitation and that, outside of copying other artists' work, his talent was limited. One critic wrote that he was "
A gifted technician who has made a sort of composite facsimile of the Renaissance school, he has every virtue except originality
." In response to these comments, van Meegeren published a series of aggressive articles in the monthly magazine
De Kemphaan
("The Game Cock"). Between April 1928 and March 1930, and together with journalist Jan Ubink, he raged against the art community, and in the process, lost any sympathy with the critics.
Van Meegeren felt that his genius had been misjudged, and set out to prove to the art critics that he could not only copy the style of the Dutch masters in his paintings, but produce a work of art so magnificent that it would rival the works of master painters. He moved with Jo to the South of France and began preparations for this ultimate forgery, which took him six years, from 1932 to 1937. In a series of early exercises, he forged works by Frans Hals, Pieter de Hooch, Gerard ter Borch, and Johannes Vermeer. Finally he chose to forge a painting by Vermeer as his masterpiece. Vermeer had not been particularly well-known until the beginning of the twentieth century; his works were both scarce — only about 35 had survived — and extremely valuable.
Van Meegeren delved into the biographies of the old masters, studying their lives, occupations, trademark techniques and catalogues. In October 1932, the famous art connoisseur and Rembrandt expert Dr. Abraham Bredius published an article about a recently discovered Vermeer which he described as a painting of a
Man and Woman at a Spinet.
The painting was later sold to Amsterdam banker Dr. Fritz Mannheimer.
In 1932, van Meegeren moved to the village of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin with his wife. There he rented a furnished mansion called "Primavera" and set out to define the chemical and technical procedures that would be necessary to create his perfect forgeries. He bought authentic 17th century canvas and mixed his own paints from raw materials (such as lapis lazuli, white lead, indigo, and cinnabar) using old formulas to ensure that they were authentic. In addition, he used badger-hair paintbrushes, similar to those Vermeer was known to have used. He came up with a scheme of using phenol formaldehyde (Bakelite) to cause the paints to harden after application, making the paintings appear as if they were 300 years old. After completing a painting, van Meegeren would bake it at 100 °C (212.0 °F) to 120 °C (248.0 °F) to harden the paint, and then roll it over a cylinder to increase the cracks. Later, he would wash the painting in black India ink to fill in the cracks.
It took van Meegeren six years to work out his techniques, and when he was done, he was pleased with his work, on both artistic and deceptive levels. Two of these trial paintings were "Vermeers":
Lady Reading Music
, after Vermeer's
Woman in Blue Reading a Letter
at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and
Lady Playing Music
, after Vermeer's
Woman with a Lute near a Window
hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Van Meegeren did not sell these paintings; both are now at the Rijksmuseum.
Following a journey to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, van Meegeren painted
The Supper at Emmaus,
using the ultramarine blues and yellows preferred by Johannes Vermeer and other Dutch Golden Age painters. After learning that the experts assumed Vermeer had studied in Italy, van Meegeren used
The Supper at Emmaus
by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, located at Italy's Pinacoteca di Brera, as a model for his next work. He had always wanted to walk in the steps of the masters, and he felt that his forgery was a fine work in its own right. He gave the work to his friend, the attorney C. A. Boon, telling him it was a genuine Vermeer, and asked him to show it to Dr. Abraham Bredius who was living nearby in Monaco. Bredius examined the forgery in September 1937, and despite some initial doubts, he accepted it as a genuine Vermeer and praised it highly.
The painting was purchased by The Rembrandt Society for 520,000 guilders ($300,000 or about $4 million today) with the aid of a wealthy shipowner Willem van der Vorm and donated to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. In 1938, the piece was highlighted in a special exhibition at the Rotterdam museum along with 450 Dutch masterpieces dating from 1400–1800. In the "
Magazine for [the] History of Art
", A. Feulner wrote that "
In the rather isolated area, in which the Vermeer picture hung, it was as quiet as in a chapel. The feeling of the consecration overflows on the visitors, although the picture has no ties to ritual or church.
In the summer of 1938, van Meegeren moved to Nice. Using the proceeds from the sale of
The Supper at Emmaus
, he bought a 12-bedroom estate at Les Arènes de Cimiez. On the walls of the estate hung several genuine Old Masters. Two of his better forgeries were made here,
Interior with Cardplayers
Interior with Drinkers
, both displaying the signature of Pieter de Hooch. During his time in Nice, he painted his
Last Supper I
in the style of Vermeer.
In September 1939, as the Second World War threatened, he returned to the Netherlands. He remained at a hotel in Amsterdam for several months and in 1940 moved to the village of Laren. Throughout 1941, van Meegeren issued his designs, which he published in 1942 as Han van Meegeren:
Teekeningen I (Drawings nr I)
a large and luxurious book. During this time, he created several forgeries, including
The Head of Christ, The Last Supper II, The Blessing of Jacob, The Adulteress
The Washing of the Feet,
all in the manner of Vermeer. On December 18, 1943, he divorced his wife, but this was only a formality; the couple remained together, but a large share of his capital was transferred to her accounts as a safeguard against the uncertainties of the war.
In December 1943, the van Meegerens moved to Amsterdam, where they took up residence in the exclusive Keizersgracht 321. His forgeries had earned him between 5.5 to 7.5 million guilders (or about $25–30 million today). He used this money to purchase a large amount of real estate, jewelry and works of art, and to further his luxurious lifestyle. In a 1946 interview, he told Marie Louise Doudart de la Grée that he owned 52 houses and 15 country houses around Laren, among them grachtenhuizen, beautiful mansions along the famous Amsterdam canals.
During the German occupation of the Netherlands, one of van Meegeren's agents sold a Vermeer forgery,
Christ with the Adulteress
, to Nazi banker and art dealer Alois Miedl in 1942. Experts could probably have identified it as a forgery; as van Meegeren's health declined, so did the quality of work. He chain-smoked, drank heavily and became addicted to morphine-laced sleeping pills. Fortunately for van Meegeren, there were no genuine Vermeers available for comparison, since most museum collections were in protective storage as a prevention against war damage.
Göring showcased the Vermeer forgery at his residence in Carinhall (about 65 kilometers north of Berlin). On August 25, 1943, Göring hid his collection of looted artwork, including
Christ with the Adulteress
, in an Austrian salt mine, along with 6,750 other pieces of artwork looted by the Nazis. On May 17, 1945, Allied forces entered the salt mine, where Captain Harry Anderson discovered the previously unknown "Vermeer".
In May 1945, the Allied forces questioned banker and art dealer Alois Miedl regarding the newly discovered Vermeer. Based on Miedl's confession, the painting was traced back to van Meegeren. On May 29,1945, he was arrested and charged with fraud and aiding and abetting the enemy. He was remanded to Weteringschans prison. As an alleged Nazi collaborator and plunderer of Dutch cultural property the authorities threatened van Meegeren with extensive prison time. Faced with these bleak choices, and after spending three days in jail, he confessed to forging paintings attributed to Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch. He exclaimed, "
The painting in Göring's hands is not, as you assume, a Vermeer of Delft, but a Van Meegeren! I painted the picture!
" It took some time to verify this and for several months he was detained in the Headquarters of the Military Command at Herengracht 468 in Amsterdam. Between July and about November/December 1945, and in the presence of reporters and court-appointed witnesses, he painted his last forgery, of
Jesus among the Doctors
, also called
Young Christ in the Temple
in the style of Vermeer. After the trial painting was finished, he was transferred to the fortress prison Blauwkapel. Van Meegeren was released from prison in January or February 1946.
The trial of Han van Meegeren began on October 29, 1947 in Room 4 of the Regional Court in Amsterdam. The collaboration charges had been dropped, since the expert panel had found that the "Vermeer" sold to Hermann Göring had been a forgery and was, therefore, not the cultural property of the Netherlands. The public prosecutor, H. A. Wassenbergh, brought charges of forgery and fraud and demanded a sentence of two years in prison.
The court commissioned an international group of experts to address the authenticity of van Meegeren's paintings. The commission included curators, professors and doctors from the Netherlands, Belgium, and England and was led by the director of the chemical laboratory at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Paul Coremans. The commission examined the eight Vermeer and Frans Hals paintings which van Meegeren had identified as forgeries. With the help of the commission, Dr. Coremans was able to determine the chemical composition of van Meegeren's paints. He found that van Meegeren had prepared the paints by mixing them with the plastic bonding agent Albertol, a phenolformaldehyde resin. A bottle with exactly that ingredient had been found in van Meegeren's studio. This chemical component was introduced and manufactured in the 20th century, proving that the "Vermeers" and "Frans Halses" examined by the commission were in fact made by van Meegeren. The commission's other findings suggested that the dust in the craquelure was too homogeneous to be of natural origin. The matter found in the craquelure appeared to come from India ink, which had accumulated even in areas that natural dirt or dust would never have reached. The paint had become so hard that not only alcohol but also strong acids and bases did not attack the surface, a clear indication that the surface had not been formed in a natural manner. The craquelure on the surface did not always match that in the ground layer, which with a natural craquelure would certainly have been the case. hus, the test results obtained by the commission appeared to confirm that the works were forgeries created by van Meegeren, but their authenticity would continue to be debated by some of the experts until 1967 and 1977, when new investigative techniques were used to analyze the paintings (see below).
On November 12, 1947, the Fourth Chamber of the Amsterdam Regional Court found Han van Meegeren guilty of forgery and fraud, and sentenced him to a minimal one year in prison.
While waiting to be removed to prison, van Meegeren returned to his house at 321 Keizersgracht, where his health continued to decline. During this last month of his life, he strolled freely around his neighborhood.
On November 26, 1947, the last day to appeal the ruling, van Meegeren suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the Valeriuskliniek hospital in Amsterdam. While at the hospital, he suffered a second heart attack on December 29, and was pronounced dead at 5:00 pm on December 30, 1947, at the age of 58. His family and several hundred of his friends attended his funeral at the Driehuis Westerveld Crematorium chapel. In 1948 his urn was buried in the general cemetery in the village of Diepenveen (municipality of Deventer).
After his death, the court ruled that Van Meegeren's estate be auctioned and the proceeds from his property and the sale of his counterfeits be used to refund the buyers of his works and to pay income taxes on the sale of his paintings. In December 1945, Van Meegeren had filed for bankruptcy. On September 5 and 6, 1950, the furniture and other possessions in his Amsterdam house at Keizersgracht 321 were auctioned by order of the court, along with 738 other pieces of furniture and works of art, including numerous paintings by old and new masters from his private collection. The house was auctioned separately on September 4. Together with the house, estimated to be worth 65,000 guilders, the proceeds of the sale amounted to 123,000 guilders. His
Jesus among the Doctors
(which van Meegeren had painted while in detention) sold for 3,000 guilders (about $800 or about $7,000 today.) Today the painting hangs in a Johannesburg church. The sale of the entire estate amounted to 242,000 guilders ($60,000, or about $500,000 today).
Last Supper I
was retrieved by his widow Jo and Prof. Dr. Coremans in Van Meegeren's villa in Nice in November/December 1949. It remained in Jo's possession and was sold by her daughter Viola in 1984 in Rotterdam. There exists a fine photograph of the painting when for sale in Rotterdam.
Throughout his trial and bankruptcy, Van Meegeren maintained that his second wife, Jo, had nothing to do with the creation and sale of his forgeries. A large part of his considerable wealth had been transferred to her when they were divorced during the war and the money would have been confiscated if she had been ruled to be an accomplice. To all authors, journalists and biographers, van Meegeren told the same story: "
Jo didn't know
", and apparently most believed him. Some biographers believe, however, that Jo must have known the truth. Her involvement was never proven and she was able to keep her substantial capital. Jo outlived her husband by many years, always in great luxury, until her death at the age of 91.
M. Jean Decoen, a Brussels art expert and restorer, stated in his 1951 book that he believed
The Supper at Emmaus
The Last Supper II
to be genuine Vermeers. Decoen went on to state that conclusions of Dr. Paul Coreman's panel of experts were wrong and that the paintings should again be examined. The buyer of
The Last Supper II
Interior with Drinkers
, and
The Head of Christ
, Daniel George van Beuningen, demanded that Dr. Paul Coremans publicly admit that he had erred in his analysis. When Coremans refused, van Beuningen sued him, alleging that Coremans' wrongful branding of
The Last Supper II
diminished the value of his "Vermeer" and asking for compensation of £500,000 (about $1.3 million or about $10 million today). The trial was set for June 2, 1955, but was delayed owing to van Beuningen's death on May 29, 1955. Approximately seven months later, the court heard the case on behalf of van Beuningen's heirs. The court found in favour of Coremans, and the findings of his commission were upheld.
In 1967, the Artists Material Center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh examined several of the "Vermeers" in their collection. Under the direction of Robert Feller and Bernard Keisch, the examination confirmed that several of their paintings were in fact created using materials invented in the 20th century. They concluded that the "Vermeers" in their possession were modern and could thus be Van Meegeren forgeries. This confirmed the findings of the 1946 Coremans commission, and refuted the claims made by M. Jean Decoen. The test results, obtained by the Carnegie Mellon team are summarized below.
Han van Meegeren knew that white lead was used during Vermeer's time, but of course he had to obtain his stocks through the modern color trade, which had changed significantly since the 17th century. During Vermeer's time, Dutch lead was mined from deposits located in the Low Countries; however, by the 19th century, most lead was imported from Australia and the Americas, and differed from the white lead Vermeer would have used both in the isotope composition of the lead and in the content of trace elements found in the ores. Dutch white lead was extracted from ores containing high levels of trace elements of silver and antimony, while the modern white lead used by Van Meegeren contained neither silver nor antimony, as those elements are separated from the lead during the modern smelting process.
Forgeries in which modern lead or white lead pigment has been used can be recognized by using a technique called Pb(Lead)-210-Dating. Pb-210 is a naturally occurring radioactive element that is part of the uranium-238 Radioactive decay series, and has a half life of 22.3 years. To determine the amount of Pb-210, the alpha radiation emitted by another element, polonium-210 (Po-210), is measured. Thus it is possible to estimate the age of a painting, within a few years' span, by extrapolating the Pb-210 content present in the paint used to create the painting.
The white lead in the painting
The Supper at Emmaus
had polonium-210 values of 8.5±1.4 and radium-226 (part of the uranium-238 radioactive decay series) values of 0.8±0.3. In contrast, the white lead found in Dutch paintings from 1600–1660 had polonium-210 values of 0.23±0.27 and radium-226 values of 0.40±0.47.
In 1977 another investigation was undertaken by the States forensic labs of the Netherlands, using up-to-date techniques including gas chromatography, to confirm formally the origin of six van Meegeren forgeries, including the Emmaus and the Last Supper that had been alleged to be genuine Vermeers. The conclusions of the 1946 commission were again reaffirmed and upheld by the Dutch judicial system.
In July 2011, the BBC TV programme,
Fake or Fortune
, investigated a copy of Dirck van Baburen's
The Procuress
owned by the Courtauld Institute. Opinion had been divided as to whether it was a 17th-century studio work or a van Meegeren fake. The programme used chemical analysis of the paint to show that it contained bakelite and thus confirmed that the painting was a 20th-century fake.
Van Meegeren played different roles, some of which were shrouded in fraudulent intentions, as he sought to fulfill his goal of besting his critics. Early on Han's father may have foreseen his path, as his father once told him,
"You are a cheat and always will be.
" On the other hand, his brothers and sisters perceived him as loyal, generous and affectionate, and he was always loving and helpful to his own children. The question "
what was his character
" cannot be answered unequivocally. Indeed, recent works question many of the existing assumptions about van Meegeren and the motivations for his career in forgery. With Han van Meegeren, everything was double-edged and his character presents itself as fragments rather than unity.
After Van Meegeren was released, he continued to paint, signing his works with his own name. His new-found popularity ensured quick sale of his new paintings, often selling at prices that were many times higher than before he had been unmasked as a forger. Van Meegeren also told the news media that "
he had an offer from a Manhattan gallery to come to the U.S. and paint portraits "in the 17th century manner" at $6,000 a throw
A Dutch opinion poll conducted in October 1947 placed Han van Meegeren's popularity second in the nation, behind only the Prime Minister's. The Dutch people viewed Van Meegeren as a cunning trickster, who had successfully fooled the Dutch art experts, and more importantly, Hermann Göring himself. In fact, according to a contemporary account, when Göring was informed that his "Vermeer" was actually a forgery, "[
Göring] looked as if for the first time he had discovered there was evil in the world
". Han van Meegeren remains one of the most ingenious art counterfeiters of the 20th century. After his trial, however, he declared, "
My triumph as a counterfeiter was my defeat as [a] creative artist.
List of known forgeries by Han van Meegeren:
A counterpart to
Laughing Cavalier
after Frans Hals (1923) once the subject of a scandal in The Hague in 1923, its present whereabouts are unknown.
The Happy Smoker
after Frans Hals (1923) hangs in the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands
Man and Woman at a Spinet
1932 (sold to Amsterdam banker, Dr. Fritz Mannheimer)
Lady Reading Music
1935–1936 (unsold, on display at the Rijksmuseum.)
Lady Playing Music
1935–1936 (unsold, on display at the Rijksmuseum.)
Portrait of a Man
1935–1936 in the style of Gerard ter Borch (unsold, on display at the Rijksmuseum.)
Woman Drinking
1935–1936 (unsold, on display at the Rijksmuseum.)
The Supper at Emmaus
, 1936–1937 (sold to the Boymans for 520,000 – 550,000 guldens, about $300,000 or $4 Million today)
Interior with Drinkers
1937–1938 (sold to D G. van Beuningen for 219,000 – 220,000 guldens about $120,000 or $1.6 million today)
The Last Supper I
, 1938–1939
Interior with Cardplayers
1938 - 1939 (sold to W. van der Vorm for 219,000 – 220,000 guldens $120,000 or $1.6 million today)
The Head of Christ
, 1940–1941 (sold to D G. van Beuningen for 400,000 – 475,000 guldens about $225,000 or $3.25 million today)
The Last Supper II,
1940–1942 (sold to D G. van Beuningen for 1,600,000 guldens about $600,000 or $7 million today)
The Blessing of Jacob
1941–1942 (sold to W. van der Vorm for 1,270,000 guldens about $500,000 or $5.75 million today)
Christ with the Adulteress
1941–1942 (sold to Hermann Göring for 1,650,000 guldens about $624,000 or $6.75 million today)
The Washing of the Feet
1941–1943 (sold to the Netherlands state for 1,250,000 – 1,300,000 guldens about $500,000 or $5.3 million today, on display at the Rijksmuseum.)
Jesus among the Doctors
September 1945 (sold at auction for 3,000 guldens, about $800 or $7,000 today)
The Procuress
given to the Courtauld Institute as a fake in 1960 and confirmed as such by chemical analysis in 2011.
Posthumously, van Meegeren's forgeries have been shown in exhibitions around the world, including exhibitions in Amsterdam (1952), Basel (1953), Zurich (1953), Haarlem in the Kunsthandel de Boer (1958), London (1961), Rotterdam (1971), Minneapolis (1973), Essen (1976–1977), Berlin (1977), Slot Zeist (1985), New York (1987), Berkeley, CA (1990), Munich (1991), Rotterdam (1996), The Hague (1996) and more recently at the Haagse Kunstkring, The Hague (2004) and Stockholm (2004), and have thus been made broadly accessible to the public.
It is possible that other fakes hang in art collections all over the world, probably in the style of 17th-century Dutch masters, including works in the style of Frans Hals and the school of Hals, Pieter de Hooch, and Gerard ter Borch. In interviews with journalists, regarding discussions with his father Jacques van Meegeren suggested his father had created a number of other forgeries. Some of these paintings include:
Boy with a Little Dog
The Rommelpotspeler
after Frans Hals. The Frans Hals catalogue by Frans L. M. Dony mentions four paintings by this name attributed to Frans Hals or the "school of Frans Hals", one of these could easily be by van Meegeren. A counterpart to Vermeer's
Girl with a Pearl Earring
. A painting called
Smiling Girl
hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (bequest Andrew W. Mellon) that could fit with Jacques' description and has been recognized by the museum as a fake. It was attributed to Theo van Wijngaarden, friend and partner of van Meegeren, but may have been painted by van Meegeren.
Lady with a Blue Hat
after Vermeer which was sold to Baron Heinrich Thyssen in 1930. Its present whereabouts are unknown.
Van Meegeren was a prolific artist, and produced thousands of original paintings in a number of diverse styles. This wide range in painting and drawing styles often irritated art critics. Some of his typical works are classical still lifes in convincing 17th century manner, Impressionistic paintings of people frolicking on lakes or beaches, jocular drawings where the subject is drawn with rather odd features, Surrealistic paintings with combined fore- and backgrounds. Van Meegeren's portraits, however, are probably his finest works.
Among his original works is his famous
. Other works include his prize-winning
St. Laurens Cathedral
; a
Portrait of the actress Jo Oerlemans
(his second wife); his
Night Club
; from the Roaring Twenties; the cheerful watercolor
A Summer Day on the Beach
and many others.
Van Meegeren's own work rose in price after he had become famous and it consequently became worthwhile to fake his paintings as well. Existing paintings obtained a signature "H. van Meegeren", or new pictures were made in his style and falsely signed. When van Meegeren saw a fake like that, he ironically remarked that he would have adopted them if they had been good enough, but regrettably he had not yet seen one.
Later on, however, his son Jacques van Meegeren started to fake his father's work. He made paintings in his father's style – although of much lower quality – and was able to place a perfect signature on these imitations. Many fakes – both by Jacques and by others – are still on the market. They can be recognized by their low pictorial quality, but are not always regarded as such. As a result they have given a bad name to van Meegeren's oeuvre.
Sources include:
Prof. Dr. Frederik H. Kreuger, biographer of the artist
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Astronomical Clock of Prague
On Old Town Square (Staroměstské náměstí) is located one of the most famous monuments of Prague the Astronomical Clock (Pražský orloj). The clock seems difficult to understand. Let's look the meaning of each dials and the history of this clock.
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The astronomical dial is the main dial, it has the shape of an astrolabe. An astrolabe its Greek etymology is a tool to take the height of the stars and can therefore represent the movement of the stars. In the dial four components are moving:
The original function of this mechanism still dating the XIII century was not giving the correct time. It was to give the movement of the sun and the moon around the Earth at the time thought was that the Earth was the center of the universe. You can see also see the Earth in the center of the dial represented by a blue circle. The black circle represents the portion of the day non visible between the two parts orange. The upper part of the dial in blue represents the day and Arabic numerals represent the hours of the day time or one twelfth of a day. You can also see Latin inscriptions on the left which means dawn and sunrise (ortus and aurora) and right entries mean twilight and sunset (occasus and crepusculum). Roman numerals are made to indicate the local time in Prague, the XII on the top represent noon on the bottom represents midnight. The circle moves in the main dial turning. On the dial are the signs of the zodiac. At the end of the dial is 72 parts gold. These 72 parts represent about 5 days. The black circle outside the astronomical dial also moves with the numbers Gothic and represents the number of hours elapsed since the beginning of sunset. The Sun moves along a needle is used to indicate the astrological sign in which we stand. Golden hand allows the end of the needle to indicate the time on the dial. Moon has more or less the same meaning but moves more quickly to indicate the moon phase.
The clock is decorated with four characters around it representing each:
All these figures have been added during the nineteenth century. There is also a calendar astronomical dials which was added in 1886, created by Josef Manes one of the most famous Czech painters. On this calendar you can see represented the arms of Old Town Prague. You can observed circles representing scene of peasant life in Moravia to indicate the days of the year. Around this calendar is fixed as four characters which an angel holding a sword. Funny thing that attracts the crowds on Old Town Square, every hour from 9:00 am until 9:00 p.m., you can see the characters come alive.
But there is not only this characters who are coming alive but, windows open and twelve apostles parade. There is also St. Peter makes an appearance on two windows. These animations were also added in the nineteenth century. And finally to end the animation, a window opens with a rooster crows to announce the death. The rooster was added in 1882. There is also the top of the clock men who are playing the trumpet. My explanations further illustrate through this video here. A little advice, certainly the atmosphere of the Old Town Square is sublime with nightfall. But if you want to enjoy "a little more quietly" animation, I suggest you come in the morning before 9:00, it is less crowded in general.
Element of the recent ones have been added in the nineteenth century, but the clock was made in 1410 by Nicolas Kadau. The clock was perfected in 1490 by Hanus (Jan Ruze). Legend has it that have blinded the clockmaker after reshuffle the clock, so that it can not replicate. But what is still original on the clock which has spent more than VIII century?The upper disk of the astronomical clock is the only original element which dates from the fifteenth century. For the rest of the clock has suffered the damage of time. Especially when the Nazi regime fled Prague in 1945, they set fire to the clock. The clock was repaired later in 1948 but also in 1994 and 2006. But the clock continues to fascinate and remain fascinating, despite the repairs. It seems unique in its old technology and full of religious symbols. The clock always surprises the technical prowess of the time it took to achieve and the wealth of information it can disclose if we can read it. This clock shows that Prague is truly a capital full of history, but as the whole Czech Republic. Do you want to see another Astronomical Clock in the country? It is less known but in Olomouc |
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