This crazy hippie robbed Steve Martin // The Wolfgang Beltracchi story

The Wolfgang Beltracchi case is one of the most notorious art forgery scandals in history, where Beltracchi faked hundreds of paintings in the style of famous artists like Max Ernst, Heinrich Campendonk, and Fernand Léger. Rather than copying existing works, he created "newly discovered" paintings, complete with forged provenance, which fooled experts, collectors, and museums for decades. His scheme unraveled in 2010 when forensic testing detected modern titanium white paint in one of his supposed early 20th-century works.

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[minecraftniko]

As a german guy I can say that little mustach man was not Foine

[mikey]

Those vintage photos of his wife is actually genius, lol

[ashthegod]

Dang, I would have sold 10 paintings then move to another continent

[skateordie]

I think this guy deserved every single penny he got. Not only did he an amazing job replicating paintings but he sold it to people who are just as big of a scammer and thief.

[NIKHILKUMAR-rimb]

The little moustache man is obviously Charlie Chaplin.

[karimkari]

Been greedy is the problem with every single scam ever

[barbiquearea]

He could have said they were replicas and still made a good amount of money from them legitimately.

[LillllyPad]

They could have gotten away with it if they were less greedy and just sold 2-3 paintings.

[silvertongued]

I mean u gotta give them credit though. They went all the ways to recreate the painting, including mixing their own colors, baking the painting without causing actually damaged to the painting. And that photo recreation of great aunt that is very creative. Insane.

[tburt]

The fact that they were able to amass $100M from forging paintings was a gift and a costly curse within itself.

[cassidylopez]

It took me 3 whole minutes & 16 seconds before I realized who little mustache man IS 😂

[Ducki-pt]

I wasn’t expecting ray to talk about that certain German guy

[georgia]

Ray, you are the very BEST! Looking forward to your videos every day!

[jesusisunstoppable]

Pretty pathetic when the
So Called Experts can't tell the difference.

[goergebroker]

Based upon the story, the 100 "fake" painting from that guy could actually be worth now a fortune...

[Vero_Smittty]

I can’t believe I just found this channel. While binge watching I get a new video 🥰

[NotaGiraffe]

You ever think anyone has ran a scam like this and thought "let's just stop when we've made 20 million dollars yeah?" and gotten away with it?

[Nev]

the best part is he could of been truthful and say "These are paintings that I made as dupes for lost ones" and still be walking his ass to the bank

[r.stevens]

So much for authenticity and the so called experts

[famouskings]

Why did i not realize who lil mustache man was until the end😂