The Man Who Made Vermeers:
Han van Meegeren's Life in Forgery
Sunday, January 11, 2009, 2:00 p.m.
East Building Concourse Auditorium, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
>>>>>Jonathan Lopez, writer and historian, discusses aspects of his recently published book, The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren.
Book signing to follow
Sunday Lectures at the National Gallery are free and open to the public on a first-come-first-serve basis
The National Gallery of Art
Constitution Avenue and 4th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
www.nga.gov/programs/lectures
The Master Forger and the Fascist Dream
Thursday, December 4, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut
>>>>>Jonathan Lopez, author of the recently published book,
The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren.
Lecture at 6:30, preceded by a wine and cheese reception at 5:30.
Members $10, Non-members $15
Reservations strongly suggested: call (860) 443-2545, ext. 129
Supported by the Bernard I.and Nelly K. Murstein Lecture Fund
Lyman Allyn Art Museum - 625 Williams Street - New London, CT 06320
www.lymanallyn.org
Vermeer and Van Meegeren: the Real and the Faux
Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 7:00 p.m. -- Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Ronni Baer, Elfens Senior Curator of European Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts
Jonathan Lopez, author of The Man Who Made Vermeers
>>>>>Dutch art forger Han van Meegeren became a folk hero at the end of World War II when he confessed to selling Hermann Goering a fake Vermeer. Hear author Jonathan Lopez and curator Ronni Baer discuss the extravagantly sordid life of the world's most notorious art forger and what he did to the image of the Vermeer we know and love.
Book signing to follow
Purchase tickets online at the MFA website
by phone at (617) 369-3306
or in person at the MFA box office
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston MA 02115
Opportunism and the German Occupation: Alois Miedl and
Han van Meegeren at the Goudstikker Gallery
Thursday, March 26, 2009, 11:30 a.m. -- The Jewish Museum, New York
Jonathan Lopez, author of The Man Who Made Vermeers
>>>>>Hermann Goering's banker and financial advisor, Alois Miedl, ran the Goudstikker gallery as a lucrative art dealership during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, sometimes offering protection to Jewish collectors in exchange for paintings and always funneling the best works to Goering. When the longtime Vermeer forger Han van Meegeren sought a buyer for his monumental Christ and the Adulteress in 1943, Miedl was the last dealer left in Amsterdam with enough money to pay cash under the table for what appeared to be a looted 17th-century masterpiece.
Book signing to follow
Purchase tickets online at the Jewish Museum's website
by phone at (212) 423-3337
The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128
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The Man Who Made Vermeers,
or to receive a disk of released images
for use in reviews or associated articles,
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Gregory Henry, at (212)592-1094.
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