Elmyr de Hory

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

1.2517

Gender

Male

Birthday

16-Apr-1906

Age

(120 years old)

Place of Birth

Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Also Known As

NO INFO PROVIDED

Elmyr de Hory

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

Credits

Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery (1997) Character: Self (archive footage)
Film about art forger Elmyr de Hory. He was also one of the subjects of Orson Welles' documentary F for Fake (1974). A Norwegian production directed by Knut W. Jorfald, spoken in English.

Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory (2008) Character: Self
Elmyr de Hory was called "The Myth of our Century" when he was revealed as a master forger in 1968. Born in 1905, he made an estimated 1000 fake paintings, primarily in the style of the post-impressionists before he died - or disappeared - in 1976. In addition to faking paintings, Elmyr de Hory often faked his own identity, and traveled easily throughout Europe's high society.

Vérités et Mensonges (1973) Character: Self
Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.

Elmyr de Hory

Personal Info

Elmyr de Hory

Biography

Credits

Our Work is

Anime | Movie