Podcast #3: The Self-Isolation Series 2020

This week we would like to introduce our newest member to the team. For part three of the Beaumont Nathan self-isolation series, Claudia Black will be discussing the infamous art forger, Han van Meegeren and how his dealings with the Nazis led to the uncovering of one of the most scandalous art crimes of the 20^th century.

 

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Photograph of Han van Meegeren, unknown date, [Image courtesy of the BBC]

Han van Meegeren, Woman Drinking (version of Malle Babbe), 1935–1936 [The Rijksmuseum] [Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons]

Han van Meegeren, Lady reading a letter, 1935–1936, [The Rijksmuseum] [Image courtesy of Wikipedia]

Photograph of Han van Meegeren smoking a cigarette, taken by George Rodger, Time & Life Pictures [Courtesy of Getty Images]

Han van Meegeren, The Fawn, one of Princess Juliana’s deer, [Schreuder & Kraan] @ Schreuder & Kraan, Haarlem

Photograph of Han van Meegeren, 1947, [Image courtesy of The BBC]

Han van Meegeren, A self-portrait with a contemptuous grimace, decorated with the insignia of the order of the Golden Fleece [Image courtesy of Artnet]

Han van Meegeren, Self-Portrait [Image courtesy of Artnet]

Clip of Han van Meegeren in the court room, 1947 [Clip courtesy of The BBC]

Photograph of Han van Meegeren reading the newspaper, 1947 [Image courtesy of the BBC]

Han van Meegeren, The Supper at Emmaus, 1936-37, Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam [Image courtesy of Essential Vermeer]

Photograph of Han van Meegeren in his studio, 1947 [Image courtesy of Essential Vermeer]

Dirk Hannama and Abraham Bredius inspecting The Supper at Emmaus, unknown date, [Image courtesy of Meegeren.net]

Newspaper clipping of ‘A New Vermeer’ by Abraham Bredius, 1936 [Image courtesy of the Burlington Magazine, Jstor]

Han van Meegeren, The Washing of the Feet, circa. 1941 [Image courtesy of the BBC]

Han van Meegeren, Christ with the woman taken in Adultery, circa 1943 [Image courtesy of Essential Vermeer]

Clip of Herman Göring, unkown date [Courtesy of the BBC]

Photograph of Han van Meegeren and his wife at their home in Amsterdam [Image courtesy of the BBC]

Clip of the allied forces clearing the salt mine in Austria of the Nazi plunder [Courtesy of the BBC]

Photograph of Christ with the woman taken in Adultery by van Meegeren being transported by allied troops, circa 1945 [Image courtesy of the BBC]

Photograph by Yale Joel of Han van Meegeren on trail, 1947, Time Life Pictures [Image courtesy of Getty Images]

Photograph of the court room for the trail of Han van Meegeren, 1947 [Image courtesy of the BBC]

Newspaper clippings showing headlines of the trail of van Meegeren, 1947 [Image courtesy of the BBC]

Clip of the forgeries of Han van Meegeren being carried into the courtroom in Amsterdam, 1947 [Courtesy of the BBC]

Clip of the court room for the trail of Han van Meegeren, 1947 [Courtesy of the BBC]

Photograph of Han van Meegeren on trial with The Washing of the Feet in the background [Image courtesy of the BBC]

Clip of the court room for the trail of Han van Meegeren, 1947 [Courtesy of the BBC]

Photograph of experts inspecting a forgery by van Meegeren, unknown date, [Image courtesy of Wikipedia]

Clip of Han van Meegeren painting Christ teaching the elders, 1947 [Courtesy of the BBC]

Clip of Han van Meegeren entering the court room, 1947 [Courtesy of the BBC]

Exhibition photographs of ‘The Fake Vermeers of Van Meegeren’, Museum Boijmans, 2010 [Image Courtesy of the Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam]