# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-wacker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:38:31.848Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-wacker"
name: "Otto Wacker"
slug: "otto-wacker"
description: "Otto Wacker (1898–1970) was a German art dealer who became infamous for commissioning and selling forgeries of paintings by Vincent van Gogh. He had gained a good reputation in the 1920s after false starts in various other professions. Since the end of World War II, he lived in East Berlin. A study of his life and times has been written by Modris Eksteins."
tagline: "German art dealer who became infamous for commissioning and selling forgeries of paintings by Vincent van Gogh (1898-1970)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1898-08-11"
deathDate: "1970-10-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.85
  momentum:             0.04073319755600813
  historical:           6.351081333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wacker_(fa%C5%82szerz)"
    title: "Otto Wacker (fałszerz)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B1"
    title: "اوتو واكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wacker_(Kunsth%C3%A4ndler)"
    title: "Otto Wacker (Kunsthändler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wacker"
    title: "Otto Wacker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wacker"
    title: "Otto Wacker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wacker_(galeriste)"
    title: "Otto Wacker (galeriste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC"
    title: "オットー・ヴァッカー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115015"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump