People
Elmyr de Hory
- Name: Elmyr de Hory
- Birthday: 1906-04-16
- Place of birth: Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
- Popularity: 0.678
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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Movies:
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory as Himself | 2008-01-01 |
| Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery as Self (archive footage) | 1997-01-01 |
| F for Fake as Self | 1973-09-01 |
