Elmyr de Hory

Elmyr de Hory

Personal information

Known for
Актёрская работа
Known credits
3
Gender
Мужской
Born
16 апреля 1906 г.
Died
11 декабря 1976 г.
Place of birth
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.

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