Elmyr de Hory

1906-04-16 – 1976-12-11 · Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Biography

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

Movie

F for Fake

1973★ 7.4

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Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery

1997★ 6.5

Movie

Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory

2008★ 0.5